Professor Sandra Milligan is the Executive Director of Melbourne Metrics, at the University of Melbourne. She was previously director of the Assessment Research Centre at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

Her research focuses on development and construction of, scalable, robust, valid, comparable and trusted approaches for assessment and recognition of learning. These new approaches are particularly suited to assessment of the transferable learning competencies that equip learners to flourish in a changing, uncertain, world, or competence in complex domains of performance.

Originally a STEM teacher, Sandra 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 government authorities, not-for-profits, and domestic and international corporations.

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