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Advancing Women in Research Seminars - Women's Leadership and Advancement Scheme

The Advancing Women in Research seminars were launched in 2002 as a joint initiative of the Women's Leadership & Advancement Scheme (Equity & Diversity Centre) and the Research Office.

Australian research shows that women are significantly underrepresented in the research life of universities. This research indicates that women experience specific difficulties in establishing a research profile in the early stages of their career and that these difficulties can have long term career implications.

The seminars were developed to assist female staff and post-graduate students at Monash establish or enhance their research careers. They feature prominent Monash University female academics with strong research profiles. Speakers are drawn from a broad range of disciplines and are asked to share the strategies they have used to build successful research careers. The seminars provide an opportunity for female staff to hear about the ways successful women researchers have started their own careers, gotten published, written successful grant applications, balanced teaching and research, created research opportunities for themselves, and found research mentors.

Three seminars are held each year and run from 1:00-2:00pm. The seminars are free of charge and attendees are asked to BYO lunch.

The seminars are advertised through the Advancing Women in Research email list, through Faculty newsletters/emails and through the Monday Notices Bulletin.

Dates For 2007 To Be Advised

Speakers to Date Have Included:

  • Professor Elizabeth Boros (Law)
  • Associate Professor Frada Burstein (School of Information Management & Systems, IT)
  • Professor Barbara Caine (School of Historical Studies, Arts)
  • Professor Margaret Clayton (Associate Dean Research, Science)
  • Dr Maria Garcia de la Banda (School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, IT)
  • Professor Carla Lipsig-Mumme (School of Political & Social Inquiry, Arts)
  • Dr Kate Loveland (Institute of Reproduction & Development, Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences)
  • Dr Sharon Pickering (School of Political and Social Inquiry, Arts)
  • Professor Gail Risbridger (Institute of Reproduction & Development, Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences)
  • Professor Lynette Russell (Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Arts)
  • Dr Simone Schoenwaelder (RD Wright & Logan Fellow, Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences)
  • Dr Andrea Taylor (School of Biological Sciences, Science)
  • Associate Professor Alison Tokita (Japanese Studies - Arts)
  • Professor Betty Weiler (Department of Management, Business & Economics)

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