Ioannis Soilemetzidis

Doctoral Researcher

www.birmingham.ac.uk/ioannis-soilemetzidis

Current Status

Third year, Part-Time, EdD (Education) Leaders and Leadership in Education Doctorate.

Research Topic

Indicative title: Measuring and appraising (KPI QA) institutional policies and strategies related with student retention (attrition) - an institution wide approach.

Research Summary

At this stage, I aim to develop a framework to measure and appraise the effectiveness of student retention strategies and activities (perhaps linked with KPI, while implementing a quality assurance approach) and their practical implementation. I aspire that this could be a universal tool, which potentially could be customised for any higher education institution to aid lowering attrition rates via the implementation of an ‘institutional wide’ approach.

Publications/Conferences

Some examples:

Soilemetzidis, I. (2016) Student retention in higher education (HE), Bourdieu sociological theory and Ishikawa diagrams: exploring potentials and possibilities, a framework analysis, EdD Colloquium “Academic Voices”, School of Education, Oxford Brookes University, 2 July 2016

Buckley, A., Soilemetzidis, I. and Hillman, N. (2015) The 2015 Student Academic Experience Survey, HEPI number 76, The Higher Education Academy, 4 June 2015 http://www.hepi.ac.uk/2015/06/04/2015-academic-experience-survey

Soilemetzidis, I., Bennett, P. and Leman, J. (2014), The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2014, The Higher Education Academy, Thursday 2 October 2014

Soilemetzidis, I., Bennett, P., Buckley, A., Hillman, N. and Stoakes, G. (2014) The HEPI–HEA Student Academic Experience Survey 2014, The Higher Education Academy / HEPI number 67, HEPI–HEA Spring Conference 21 May 2014

Soilemetzidis, I. and Dale, C. (2013) Student retention in UK higher education: Exploring the link between entry grades and attrition trends, European Academic Research, Vol. 1, Issue 8, pp. 2326-2349

Research Interests

Student retention (attrition) strategies and activities in higher education
Evaluate and establish KPIs (key performance indicators)
International higher education collaborations and academic partnerships
Internationalisation of higher education
Entrepreneurship, business start-ups and intellectual property (trade marks)
Business education
Quality assurance and subject benchmark statements
English language and the global higher education industry
International higher education systems
Technology, teaching, learning and curriculum development

Research Supervisors

Professor Graeme Douglas

Professor Mike McLinden

Funding

Self Funded

Membership of Research and Professional Organisations

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, FHEA
Chartered Management Institute, MCMI
PRINCE2 certified and registered professional practitioner
Member of BELMAS (the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society)