The Directorate for Institutional Research and Effectiveness (DIRP) at The University of Duhok (UOD) is empowering the institution with constructive data analysis. 

During the 1950s, the institutional research role was designed as a method for centralising and easing the collecting, analysis, and reporting of data pertaining to a single college or university.

The accountability movement that propelled most of higher education in the succeeding decades, as well as fast technological advances and greatly increased reporting expectations from government agencies, all contributed to accelerate and widen the establishment of the institutional research function.

Today, the institutional research function in higher education provides a complex and diverse set of activities aimed at improving administrative decision-making, responding to external demands placed on institutions, informing institutional policy development, and providing empirical data to support institutional planning and budgeting. Institutional research, in its broadest sense, is study that seeks a deeper knowledge of the institution, as well as its qualities and attributes.

DIRE focuses on the sum of all actions aimed at empirically characterising the complete range of UOD functions (educational, administrative, and support). DIRE activities investigate those tasks in their fullest meanings and include data collecting and analytical methodologies in support of decision-making at the UOD in both internal and external settings.

DIRP Function

We are part of the university's service arm and report to the President's office. The office offers the university community a variety of research, planning, evaluation, and associated support services.