Dr James Baglin is a Senior Lecturer, Statistics, in the School of Science, Mathematical Sciences and Project Manager, Student and Graduate Feedback, Office of Associate DVCE and RMIT Studios.
Dr James Baglin is a Senior Lecturer, Statistics, in the School of Science, Mathematical Sciences and Project Manager, Student and Graduate Feedback, Office of Associate DVCE and RMIT Studios. James served as the Program Manager of the Master of Analytics and Masters of Statistics and Operations Research for 2017. James has won multiple teaching awards delivering online and blended postgraduate statistics courses. James’ primary research areas include higher education, educational technology, statistics education and data visualisation.
Honours and Awards:
Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, Outstanding Good Teaching Scale Award (various courses, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017)
RMIT Teaching Commendation, Flexible Learning and Teaching Program Award (2014)
RMIT LEAD Commendation for Student Volunteer, RMIT University (2008)
Industry Experience:
Dr. Baglin has a range of statistical consulting experience working with community and health organisations-
2016-2017: Victoria Legal Aid: Evaluation of Victoria Legal Aid and the Department of Education and Training's 'Learning the Law' Education Kit
2013: Victoria Legal Aid (VLA): Assessing the value of “What’s the Law?” Australian law for new arrivals
2013: The Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and Department of Justice (VACRO): Parenting Status of Community Corrections Clients – Informing Service Planning Project
2011: Barwon Health, Geelong Hospital: Predicting survival of major surgery patients using cardiopulmonary exercise testing
2011: Barwon Health, Geelong Hospital: Predicting therapeutic seizures in electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of severe mental illness
2011: School of Allied Health, La Trobe University: A simplified
method of identifying the trained retinal locus for the purpose of eccentric viewing training
Supervisor projects
On Rumour Spread in Online Social Networks: Stochastic Modelling and Deep Learning
19 Oct 2018
Bringing the Islands to schools: Improving student attitudes towards statistics
23 Sep 2013
Teaching interests
Statistics education, Educational technology, Institutional research, Learning analytics, Applied biostatistics, Sport statistics, and psychometrics
Research interests
Statistics, Specialist Studies in Education, Education Systems, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Clinical Sciences, Human Movement and Sports Science
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.