Primary Job Title Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Quality) Primary Organization 
Federation University Australia
Location Victoria Park, Queensland, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Female
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Professor Marcia Devlin is a Professor of Learning Enhancement and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Quality). Reporting to the Vice-Chancellor, this position contributes to the achievement of the strategic goals of Federation University Australia by providing executive leadership in the areas of learning and teaching, Aboriginal education,
libraries, student administration and the University's quality assurance processes.
The Learning and Quality portfolio comprises:
Academic Services
The Centre for Innovation and Professional Practice (CLIPP)
Library Services
Aboriginal Education Centre.
Professor Devlin is widely-recognised as an expert in tertiary education. She has particular expertise in policy, quality assurance, equity, leadership, learning and teaching, academic development, assessment, scholarship, student engagement, eLearning and digital education.
Professor Devlin has held leadership and capacity development positions across the tertiary sector over the past 20 years.
Prior to joining Federation University Australia, she held senior positions at the University of Ballarat, Open Universities Australia, Deakin University and the University of Melbourne. She has significant change management experience in tertiary settings and has held or currently holds more than 20 honorary appointments external to her employer. Professor Devlin was recently elected as a Fellow of the UK-based Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE). She has served on the Executive of the Asia-Pacific based Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) and is currently a member of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) panel of experts as well as of numerous Advisory and Editorial Boards.
Professor Devlin’s research incorporates both theoretical and practical investigations into contemporary tertiary education. She is an active researcher, holding a current ARC grant and having previously led numerous large research projects. She is also well known for her writing. A broad and extensive publication record in the higher education field incorporates more than 350 publications, comprising refereed academic outputs; commissioned reports for government, universities and professional associations; and newspaper articles, including opinion pieces in major national papers and her own newspaper column in print and online for almost 10 years.
She has a PhD in higher education from the University of Melbourne; a Master of Education by research from Macquarie University; a Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology from Swinburne University of Technology; a Diploma in Education from La Trobe University and a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University. She is also a qualified (now retired) psychologist.
