Presenters

Dr Christopher McAvaney, Services Manager, eResearch, Deakin University

Christopher is responsible for managing the IT services provided for researchers at Deakin University.  The eResearch program of work ensures researchers at Deakin University are able to tackle the microscope of the 21st century – which really means empowering people to deal with digital information (i.e. data).

Christopher has extensive research administration experience within Deakin Research, developing many workflow productivity tools to streamline and simplify administration tasks relating to research. He has also been heavily involved in government reporting of research outcomes, including two ERA rounds. Christopher’s research background is in parallel and distributed systems, in particular applied research around an automated parallelisation tool.

Dr Andrew Goh, Deakin eResearch

• PhD, Computational Mathematics
• MSc, Computer Science
• MBA, Business Administration
• BSc, Computer Science

Dr Jerry Lai, Deakin eResearch

Jerry has a background in psychological science and statistics. He has a passion for data-driven storytelling through which, he helps develop insights into new questions and practices. Led by Dr Christopher McAvaney (Services Manager, eResearch, Deakin University), Jerry works with multiple research teams in Deakin—by providing consultancy, hands-on Support, or through research collaboration—on the following:

• Research Methods and Survey Design
• Data-Analytics and Visualisation
• Statistical Programming
• Promote Statistical Literacy for Non-Statisticians