HERDSA Annual General Meeting

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia

HERDSA

Annual General Meeting

Online

9th July 2021 (12.30pm AEST)


• Welcome, Attendance and Apologies

• Minutes of previous meeting

• Other business to add to agenda

• President’s report and activities

• Treasurer’s Report and Audit Report

• Proposed Budget 2021-22

• Other business


HERDSA Executive 2019 - 2021Denise Chalmers (WA) President

Barbara Kensington-Miller (NZ) Vice-President

Kogi Naidoo (NSW) Treasurer, President-elect 2020-

2021

Liz Levin (Vic)

Rob Wass (NZ)

Julia Hallas (NZ)

Deb Clarke (NSW)

Katrina Strampel (WA)

Christy Collis (QLD)

Wendy Green (TAS)

Allan Goody (WA) (conference convenor 2021)


HERDSA Executive 2021 - 2023Kogi Naidoo (NSW) President

Liz Levin (Vic)

Deb Clarke (NSW)

Katrina Strampel (WA)

Christy Collis (QLD)

Wendy Green (TAS)

Raj Shekhawat (SA)

Kwong Nui Sim (NZ)

Eva Heinrich (NZ)

Julia Choate (Vic)

Laurine Hurley Vic (conference convenor, 2022)


Wendy Green – Executive Editor HERD

Maureen Bell – Editor HERDSA Connect

Eva Heinrich – Editor Advancing Scholarship & Research In Higher Education

Lee Partridge – HERDSA Fellowships

Peter Kandlbinder –Editor HERDSA Notices

Denise Chalmers – Series Editor HERDSA Guides

Deb Clarke – SoTL Modules

Kogi Naidoo, Susan Blackley – Awards and Grants

Liz Levin – Conference Liaison

Maria Northcote - TATAL

Jennifer Ungaro - HERDSA Office

Officers of HERDSA


2020-1 Conference Organising Committee

Our grateful thanks to:

Allan Goody – Conference chair

Kelley Burton, University of the Sunshine Coast

Amanda McCubbin, University of Southern Queensland

Judit Kibedi, The University of Queensland

Bergita Shannon, QUT

Christy Collis, University of Southern Queensland (Qld Branch Committee)

Kerry Russo, James Cook University (Qld Branch Committee)

Manisha Thakkar, Endeavour College of Natural Health (Guidebook App manager)


• Cancellation of Brisbane 2021 Conference

• 2022 Conference in Melbourne

• Webinar series throughout 2020-2021

• HERD Best Paper and Reviewer awards

• Roger Landbeck award (2020)

• HERDSA Grant Scheme (2020, 2021)

• HERDSA Heroes award (2021)

• International Consortium for Educational Development

(ICED) Conference Denmark (2022)

Highlights/Lowlights


Professional Learning (incorporating Fellowships, New Scholars, TATAL)

Deb Clarke

Fellowships

12 Fellows inducted this year

Currently 57 HERDSA Fellows and 55 Associate

Fellows (21 new Associate Fellows since 2019

conference)

16 members of Board of Assessors



New Scholars

HERDSA SoTL Modules

• Currently evaluating existing supporting resources

& updating the site

• Facilitating online SoTL Module community of

practice in universities & HERDSA branch

• Workshop – SOTL Writing group


TATAL• Continuing: Online hub, logo, newsletter

• Longitudinal evaluation research project underway,

including collation of all TATALer details

• Pre-conference workshop (Continuing online)

• Publications by TATAL group



NetworksRob Wass

Branches• Eight branches (including HK and NZ)

• Branch and SIG Reports available upon request

• HERDSA webinar series

• An editor’s guide to publishing in HERD

• Academic Integrity in online assessment • Se

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)Assessment Quality [email protected] or

[email protected]

Academic Development [email protected]

Interested in starting a new SIG?

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]




Publications: HERDWendy Green

Flow of new submissions increasing

• 2017 – 506 submissions




• 2021 to 31 May - 404 (2020 submissions for the

same period = 368)

Accept ratio for 2020 18%; currently 13% (May 2021

ratio)

Average time from submission to 1st decision is 2

months


HERD Impact

Impact factor Google scholar SCImago

2017 2.006 6 1.41

2018 1.824 6 1.29

2019 2.129 6 1.45

2020 3.851 5 1.68


HERD Editorial Team 2020-2022

Executive Editor: Wendy Green

Co-Editors: Cally Guerin, Jisun Jung, Ly Tran, Susan Blackley

Special Issues Editor: Stephen Marshall

Screening editors (new role, est’d April 2020): Vivienne Anderson,

Kathleen Tait

Managing Editor: Emily Giles

Social Media Editor: Stuart Hughes

HERD Special Issues• 2021 SI ‘O tatou reo, Na domoda, Kuruwilang birad: Indigenous voices

in higher education’ published issue 1, 2021. Guest edited by Meegan

Hall, Sereana Naepi, Susan Page.

• 2022 SI ‘40 Years of Research and Development in Higher Education:

Responding to Complexity and Ambiguity’. Guest edited by Stephen

Marshall, Susan Blackley & Wendy Green


Editorial team: Eva Heinrich (Exec. Editor); Geof Hill,

Jo-Anne Kelder, A/Prof Michelle Picard (Co-Editors);

Jenny McDonald (Managing Editor)

Aims• Contribute to knowledge on scholarship in HE, inc. publication of

tentative findings and negative results;

• Facilitate extension of research by providing details (context,

instruments, etc) allowing readers to transfer the approach to

new contexts;

• Facilitate researcher development via the journal’s group-based

review process

NEW JOURNAL - ADVANCING SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION


ADVANCING SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ASRHE)The journal is open source and published under a Creative

Commons license.

Key aspects: ’Research in Progress' and 'Research Complete'

article categories; Open group-based review process; Non-

traditional (e.g., audio, video) submissions are welcome

Focus since going 'live' towards the end of 2020• Establish editorial and review processes

• Recruit reviewers

• Review first submissions

• Refining and explaining the article categories (e.g., HERDSA

Connect article, audio editorial)

Attention now• Increasing the number of high quality submissions

• Submissions following HERDSA Conference presentations


HERDSA Guides

New Guide

Embedding Interprofessional Education in the

Curriculum – Margot Brewer and Helen Flavell.

Released May 2020

Guide in development

Designing Learning in Intensive Modes of Study -

Gayani Samarawickrema et al. Editor Gail Wilson

ePublications (Kortext)

23 Guides are available as ePublications .

Purchase printed or ebooks through HERDSA website


HERDSA Connect

3 editions with feature articles from thought leaders: Prof

Jane Gilbert, Prof Kerri-Lee Krause, Prof Phillip Dawson.

New regular columns: Essential Reading IJAD, From the

ASRHE editorial desk, and the Asia-Pacific

Headlines section courtesy of John Ross and Times Higher

Education and compiled by Lukasz Swiatek.

Regular sections:

Feature; Showcase; Perspectives, Reviews;

Community.

Thanks to

Prof Robert Cannon - Meanderings, Prof Helen Sword –

Wordcraft, Lukasz Swiatek and Sally Ashton-Hay for their

stalwart volunteer editorial support.

HERDSA AGM 9 JULY 2021

Online

Treasurer’s Report

Kogi Naidoo

Overview of Accounts

HERDSA Office is located in Sydney, Australia

for day-to-day operations of the Society, and branch

administration of Australian accounts.

HERDSA NZ Branch

The HERDSA branch account in NZ is operated by

the NZ Branch Treasurer

HERDSA Hong Kong Branch

The HERDSA branch account in HK operated by

the HK Branch Treasurer

Principles

• Conservative budgeting

• Careful record keeping and use of resources

• Budget progress reviews 3x per year

• Careful choice of conference organisers and locations, with financial reporting 3x per year

• Reserve to ensure ongoing viability of HERDSA.

The current reserve is $241,093 held in Macquarie Bank

• An independent audit by Satendar Kuma from S.K.

Accounting and Business Services, NSW has been

completed; copies of the auditor’s report are

available on the HERDSA Website

https//www.herdsa.org.au/AGM-reports

HERDSA Office Accounts Audit

HERDSA Operations 1/6/20 to 31/5/21

Consolidated accounts 2019-2020

Actuals

2020 – 2021

Actuals

Income (+) $351,629 $266,071

Operational expenses (-) $315,076 $221,085

Accumulated surplus at the

end of the financial year $615,127 $620,113

Major Income Sources

Description 2019-2020

Actuals

2020- 2021

Actuals

2021-2022

Proposed

Budget

Membership fees $128,381.00 $108,033.00 $108,000.00

Annual conference $ 49,963.00 $ 0.00 $0.00

Annual conference

levy 12%

$ 26,179.00 $ 0.00 $0.00

HERDSA Guides $ 4,863.00 $ 1,453.00 $1,500.00

HERDSA Journal $ 94,999.00 $ 98,458.00 $98,000.00

Key Areas of Expenditure

Description 2019-20

Actuals

2020-2021

Actuals

2021-2022

Proposed

Budget

Executive meetings $ 27,567.00 $ 6,577.00 $ 15,000.00

Fellowships $ 1,340.00 $ 936.00 $ 1,500.00

Secretariat $ 70,745.00 $70,745.00 $ 70,745.00

Office expenses $ 15,794.00 $13,109.00 $ 15,000.00

HERDSA Connect $ 21,597.00 $25,806.00 $ 26,000.00

HERD Journal $ 57,158.00 $78,724.00 $ 79,000.00

HERDSA Guides $ 4,400.00 $ 996.00 $ 2,000.00

Website $ 11,414 $ 7,428.00 $ 8,000.00

HERDSA InitiativesInitiatives June 2020-

May 2021

Proposed

budget

Expended

June 2020

to May

2021

2021-2022

Proposed

budget

Conference awards $ 8,000.00 $3,720.00 $ 8,000.00

Life Members $ 2,000.00 $1000.00 $ 1,000.00

Website development $ 25,000.00 $00.00 $ 25,000.00

SoTL development $ 10,000.00 $ 0 $ 5,000.00

Fellowships $ 2,000.00 $ 0 $ 2,000.00

Grants (New)- paid in July

2021

$ 25,000.00 $0.00 $ 25,000.00

Honorarium Publications $ 22,000.00 $ 22,000.00 $ 22,000.00

Project 2020-2021

Proposed budget

Expended

2020/2021

2021-2022

Proposed budget

Special Project Initiatives $ 0,000.00 $0.00 $10,000.00

President Discretionary

Fund

$ 5,000.00 $0.00 $ 5,000.00

Heroes in Higher

Education 2021

$ 0.00 $0.00 $2,500.00

TOTAL EXPENDITURE HERDSA PROJECTS 2021-2022 $105,500.00

Australian Branches

Funds Held in Trust

June

2020 to

June

2021

WA SA Qld Vic ACT TAS

Income

(+)$0.00 $0.00 $ 0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

Expenses

(-)$0.00 $235.22 $0.00 $655.00 $0.00 $0.00

Closing

balances

As at

31/5/21

$9,881.00 $10,963.00 $ 3,484.00 $ 7,613.00 $ 0.00 $ 6,574.00

HERDSA BANK ACCOUNTS

ACCOUNT AS AT 31/5/2021

HERDSA Funds and branch accounts

Bankwest

$ 55,712.00

HERDSA Term Deposit Macquarie

Bank

$ 241,094.00

Operating account Australia $ 231,843.00

Operating account New Zealand $ 19,074.00

Recommendations

1. Santendra Kumar be appointed as

HERDSA auditor for the 2021-2022 year.

2. That the 2021-2022 budget expenditure

be ratified.

3. 2021 – 2022 Special project expenditure

be ratified.

4. That the 2020-2021 audited accounts be

ratified.


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