Kyla Steenhart, Senior Project Manager, Higher Education, Opinion Panel
Kyla has experience in research, policy and project management roles within the education sector. At Opinionpanel she has worked with over thirty universities on custom and syndicated research projects ranging from university brand image to finance packages and student accommodation. Kyla is the day-to-day manager of Opinionpanel’s Higher Expectations survey, a large annual survey of new first year students at UK universities on the decision-making, application and admission process. Recently, she has completed a great deal of Opinionpanel’s work around course development, in particular, developing the 'Proposition Tester' conjoint analysis approach for course design and simulators for modeling elasticity of demand based on price/brand/course choices.

Prior to Opinionpanel, Kyla worked at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, UKCISA (UK Council for International Student Affairs) and Hobsons. Kyla is an Associate Member of the MRS and has a degree in Japanese and Political Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.