Lyn Alderman

Lyn Alderman is an Honorary Professor and Dean (Academic Transformation) at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). With 35+ years of experience, she specializes in process and impact evaluation, monitoring frameworks, policy design, and institutional learning analytics.

• Education: BEd (UTS, 1996), MEd (Newcastle, 2004), PhD (QUT, 2014)
• Affiliation: Institute for Resilient Regions (UniSQ)

Her research focuses on evaluative thinking, organizational change, and policy implementation in higher education and nonprofit sectors. She pioneered REFRAME, a transformative evaluation framework, and led initiatives like veteran transition programs and digital learning creatives.

Recent publications analyze contextual evaluation, beneficiary accountability, and rapid reconnoissance methods in crisis scenarios. Despite no explicit scientific awards, her work has influenced government policy and nonprofit service digitization.

She supervises doctoral and master’s students in areas like AI governance and disability policy evaluation, emphasizing collaborative evaluation and student experience improvement.