Dr David Woodhouse MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (EAf), DipEd (Monash), FQSA

"The teaching/research nexus -
lessons from New Zealand audits" (pdf document 160K)

Dr David Woodhouse is Executive Director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), which is responsible for auditing the academic quality assurance procedures of Australia's universities and state accreditation agencies. AUQA also has a responsibility for quality improvement, which it carries out through publications, workshops, and consulting. David undertakes many national and international quality assurance activities, providing advice and training on educational quality assurance to governments, agencies and institutions in a number of countries. He is an evaluator for the Business Excellence Awards, and a reviewer for the Internationalisation Quality review programme of the OECD and European University Association. He has served two terms as President of the International Network of Quality Assurance agencies in Higher Education.

Before working in Australia, David Woodhouse was founding Director of the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (1994 - 2001), and the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (1990 - 1994). Before that, he was a faculty member in mathematics, computer science and education in universities in several countries, and was at various times head of a department and dean of a faculty. He has been very active in extensive work in schools and teacher education. His leisure interests include multisport, drama and flying light planes.