Professor Marcia Devlin is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Learning and Quality) and Professor of Learning Enhancement at Federation University Australia. Her research incorporates both theoretical and practical investigations into contemporary tertiary education and she is a nationally and internationally recognised expert in equity, quality, leadership, teaching and learning, student engagement and digital education.

With colleagues, she has won over $5 million in external competitive research, project and other funds, including from the Australian Research Council and the Office for Learning and Teaching.

Professor Devlin is a member of numerous Editorial and Advisory Boards and is frequently invited to deliver national and international keynote addresses, workshops and seminars.  A broad and extensive publication record in the tertiary education field incorporates almost 400 publications, comprising refereed outcomes and commissioned reports for government, universities and professional associations, as well as newspaper articles, including numerous commissioned opinion pieces and her own column for the past 10 years.