PROJECT
Research Insights for Vocational Education and Training
Producing policy-focused insights that inform Victorian VET reforms, strengthen research capability, and connect evidence with real-time decision-making.
The partnership between VSA and AVETRA aims to inform policy activity with relevant research evidence, build policy translation capability within the VET research community and build connections between VSA staff and VET researchers. This in turn aims to create opportunities for applied VET researchers to engage directly with policymakers and influence policy development.
The research project therefore has two intertwined objectives. First, to distil the best global and local evidence to enrich policy and practice that goes directly to government managers charged with monitoring and enriching the VET system. Second, it simultaneously develops research capability and capacity in the VET research domain, challenging researchers to focus on area of most need, encouraging cross disciplinary teams and including incentives for developing early career researchers.
Goals
Identify key strategies and initiatives compatible with Victorian training institutional cultures that can leverage policy and practice to improve training outcomes
Gather data on international and domestic best practice, recent initiatives, and challenging issues in specific area of the vocational training domain
Distil the evidence into ‘Research Insights’ that inform the Victorian Skills Authority managers of options for developing improved policy and practice initiatives
Resulting initiatives will impact on improving the training interactions carried out by over 900 registered training organisations for more than 1.5 million students
Project collaborators
- Dr Llandis Barratt-Pugh (The University of Western Australia)
- Dr Sonal Nakar (Griffith University)
- Kira Clarke (Brotherhood of St Lawrence)
- Andrew Williamson (TAFE, South Australia)
This project is funding several research studies over a period of four years. Each research team is both cross institutional and cross disciplinary, with each study including early career researchers.
