Steve is Director and Manager of the Australian Data Archive at the Australian National University, where he is responsible for the daily operations and technical and strategic development of the data archive. He has high-level expertise in survey methodology and data archiving, and has been actively involved in development and application of survey research methodology and technologies over 15 years in the Australian university sector. Steve holds a PhD in industrial relations from Deakin University, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Management Information Systems from Deakin University, and a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from Monash University. He has research interests in data management and archiving, community and social attitude surveys, organisational surveys, new data collection methods including web and mobile phone survey techniques, and reproducible research methods. Steve has been involved in various professional associations in survey research and data archiving over the last 10 years, including Vice Chair of the Expert Committee of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI – http://www.ddialliance.org), teaching with the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc. (ACSPRI – http://www.acspri.org.au), and an executive role with the International Federation of Data Organisations (IFDO – http://www.ifdo.org).