Prof Sandra Milligan | Executive Director, Melbourne Metrics
University of Melbourne

Sandra has an unusually wide engagement with the education industry and in educational research. Originally a teacher of science and mathematics, she trained in the measurement sciences, she is also a former Director of Curriculum in an Australian state education department and has held senior research, management and governance positions in a range of educational organisations, including government agencies, not-for-profits, small start-up businesses and large, listed, international corporations. She has founded, with others, and taken to market three companies in education and ed tech. Sandra’s current research focuses on assessment, recognition and warranting of hard-to-assess learning. She directs several research partnerships with school networks and organisations working to develop Learner Profiles for their students and is seeking to commercialise products arising.