Rate My Professor Romain Mirosa

Romain Mirosa is the Surveys Manager and Deputy Director of the University Quality Advancement Unit (QAU) at the University of Otago, located in the Academic Division. The QAU focuses on surveys, evaluations, and reviews to support institutional quality assurance. As Surveys Manager, Mirosa oversees the coordination of student, graduate, and staff surveys, ensuring compliance with university policies such as the Student and Graduate Surveys Policy. He serves as a key contact for the Surveys Coordination Group, facilitating survey proponents and managing processes for surveys directed to university members. His contributions include leading initiatives like the University of Otago College Review guidelines and the Handbook for Review Secretaries, where he is listed as a contact for surveys.

Mirosa's academic contributions span teaching and learning evaluation, quality assurance, and consumer behavior in food waste. His Google Scholar profile lists interests in Teaching and Learning Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Surveys, and Food Waste, with 161 citations. Key publications include the 2014 paper “‘Learning is an endless journey for anyone’: undergraduate awareness, experiences and perceptions of the research culture in a research-intensive university” in Higher Education Research & Development (79 citations, co-authored with Rachel Spronken-Smith and Martine Darrou), exploring undergraduate engagement with research culture. In 2018, he co-authored “Consumers’ behaviors and attitudes toward doggy bags: Identifying barriers and benefits to promoting behavior change” in Journal of Food Products Marketing (64 citations, with Miranda Mirosa and Yang Liu), and “Employability and graduate attributes of doctoral graduates” in Spaces, Journeys and New Horizons for Postgraduate Supervision (8 citations, with Rachel Spronken-Smith and Kim Brown). The 2020 study “Understanding the effect of dining and motivational factors on out-of-home consumer food waste” appeared in Sustainability (10 citations, with Francesca Goodman-Smith and Miranda Mirosa). Recent work includes “Students' Experiences and Perceptions of Ethical Use of AI Tools” (2026, with Larian M. Nkomo and Navé Wald). Additional reports encompass the 2016 ATEM Tertiary Education Sector Workplace Survey (with P. Abela and others) and the 2010 ITHAKA/Otago Library Survey Report (with G. Elliot). Mirosa has collaborated on projects like supervisors' perceptions of quality postgraduate research candidates with Julie Dlaskova, enhancing understanding of doctoral training at Otago. His work impacts higher education practices and sustainability research.