Dr Sarah Goodwin is a Senior Lecturer within Monash's Embodied Visualisation research group. She is passionate about helping to harness data more effectively for a sustainable future. Using human-centric approaches her research seeks to create visual solutions to enable the exploration and communication of complex, multi-dimensional and geospatial data sets.  

Sarah's research looks to drive innovative, practical and feasible solutions which can have immediate impact. Her recent projects include: 

- investigating visualisation and information overload for future energy network control rooms, producing  recommendations for future control room designs (with Australian Energy Market Operator / AEMO and CSIRO AR-PST)

- visualising disadvantage in Australia through analysing media and parliamentary discussions: Australia's Discourse Explorer (with the Paul Ramsay Foundation)

- visualising cancer prevalance and communicating geostatistical model uncertainty via the Australian Cancer Atlas (with Cancer Council Queensland and Queensland University of Technology)

- exploring immersive abstract and multiperspective data storytelling for water quality visual exploration and net zero transitions;

- developing the openly available visual eye tracking analysis software: Gazealytics (VETA and Gazealytics publications)  

- creating MultiViz (Urban diversity) to enable the visual exploration of multiple variables on one map for social scientists  

- developing novel visual exploration tools to explore smart energy grid data including Uplift - an immersive casual collaboration tool,  Timetables - an embodied spatial-temporal view and Embodied Provenance - Active Proxy Dashboards - interactive dashboards using 3D buildings, and dashboards and large screen displays for microgrid visualisations;

and novel immersive and interactive visualisations including Tiltmap ,  DataDancing and Data as Delight. 

Sarah is Director of Engagement for Monash's Human-Centred Computing Department, co-Director of Research for the Monash Grid Innovation Hub. She is a member of the Monash Energy Institute and Monash Data Futures Institute and was previously the deputy IT for Sustainable Energy theme lead for Monash Faculty of Information Technology. 

Sarah has over 20 years experience in the field of geospatial analysis and information visualisation in professional and academic roles; as a GIS technician, geo-data analyst, consultant and an academic researcher for some of the leading research centres for spatial analysis and visualisation around the world including the giCentre at City, University of London, UK; the g2Lab at HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany,  Geospatial Science Department at RMIT University, Melbourne and now with the Immersive Analytics Lab / Embodied Visualisation group, Monash University.

She is co-General Chair for IEEE VIS 2023, bringing the largest international visualisation and visual analytic conference to Australia for the first time. She runs two international workshop series on 'Energy Data Visualisation' (EnergyVis) and 'Urban Data Visualisation' (CityVis) and has been on various program committees including IEEE InfoVis and IEEE PacificVis.

Sarah has taught data visualisation to over 1000 students per year and supervises /has supervised many PhD, Masters and Honours students. 

• Infovis Design Studies and Methodologies
• Creativity Techniques and Workshops
• Geographical Information Visualisation
• Spatial Temporal Visual Analytics
• Human Computer Interaction
• Multidimensional Data Visualisation
• Geodemographics
• Uncertainty Visualisation
• Energy, Smart and Micro Grid Visualisation
• Movement and Flow Data Visualisation
• City and Urban Data Visualisation

Lecturer

S1/S2 2020, S1/S2 2021, S1/S2 2023, S1/S2 2024, S1 2025, S1 2026 (Lecturer / CE) FIT5147 Data Exploration and Visualisation  (postgraduate elective, manadatory for advanced Data Science pathway), CE for Clayton, Malyasia, Indonesia and Online. 

S1/S2 2019; S2 2018: FIT5125/FIT5143/FIT4005 Research Methods in Information Technology (All hons/masters/phd research component students)

Previously at RMIT University:

S1 2018 ONPS2335: The Professional Scientist (UG3), RMIT ONPS2334 Science Skills & Communication (UG1), and GEOM2334 Geospatial Science & Communication Skills (UG1). All Core subjects. 

S2 2017 GEOM2069 Cartography and Visualisation (RMIT) - Elective postgraduate

S1 2017 GEOM2079 Cartography 2 (RMIT) - Core UG2