POSTER SESSION
Poster Session:
Optimising Research Metrics Reporting: Reflections from Deakin Library’s Service Review
Presenters:
Dr Nasim Yazdani, Dr Marzieh Asgari
Date:
Tuesday 12 May | 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Presentation Description:
Academic libraries play a crucial role in helping researchers demonstrate their impact, and at Deakin University this support has been transformed in exciting ways since the 2022 library restructure. Today, researchers benefit from a dynamic self-service metrics dashboard for fast, reliable insights, complemented by customised reports that address specialised or grant-specific needs. This poster showcases how Deakin Library is evolving its research metrics services to stay responsive to emerging grant expectations and the real-world experiences of our research community.
Early findings reveal promising shifts as well as important questions. While the dashboard has reduced demand for tailored reports, we are now exploring which features researchers find most valuable, what gaps remain, and how they choose between automated tools and personalised support. Consultations also highlight a key opportunity: helping researchers feel more confident in interpreting complex data and transforming it into compelling, strategic narratives for grant applications. If researchers aren’t confident using the data, important information may end up being overlooked.
By analysing current reporting workflows, examining how metrics are used in funding applications, and engaging directly with researchers and administrators, this project is developing evidence-based recommendations for clearer, more efficient, and more impactful services. The poster highlights opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual workloads, and strengthen alignment with responsible metrics principles and the rapidly shifting research and funding landscape.
What attendees will gain:
- Insights into how researchers actually use (and want to use) dashboards, reports, and metrics narratives
- Practical strategies for creating more efficient, scalable, and sustainable reporting practices
- Ideas for embedding responsible metrics principles in ways that feel intuitive and achievable
- Inspiration to refine and elevate their own institutional metrics frameworks to better meet researcher and funder expectations
Dr Nasim Yazdani
Scholarly Services Librarian, Deakin University Library
Presenter Bio
Nasim is a Scholarly Services Librarian with expertise in research impact reporting, data management, evidence synthesis, information discovery, and scholarly publishing. At Deakin Library, she supports academics and researchers make effective use of metrics in grant applications, while also embedding responsible practices into teaching and research. Her work includes advancing Open Educational Resources, open access publishing, and the use of emerging technologies such as AI in education. She is also focused on streamlining workflows, and ensuring research metrics reporting remains ethical, sustainable, and responsive to researcher needs.
Nasim’s research interests include pedagogy and inclusion in academic libraries, with a particular focus on how library services can remain responsive, ethical, and future-focused. She has presented on innovative teaching and research support at academic forums and internal workshops and brings both practical expertise and reflective insight into how libraries can strengthen their contribution to both teaching excellence and research outcomes.
Dr Marzieh Asgari
Research Librarian, Deakin University Library
Presenter Bio
Marzieh is the Research Librarian (Bibliometrics and Reporting) at Deakin University. In this role, she leads and supports library services focused on scholarly output reporting, research impact, and bibliometrics, working collaboratively across the Library to strengthen expertise in these areas.
With a background in solid-state physics, over a decade of teaching experience, and more than ten years in academic library and information management, Marzieh brings a distinctive combination of academic knowledge and library expertise. She is deeply passionate about mathematics, coding, and problem-solving, which continue to inform and enrich her professional practice.