by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Nov 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of the nice things about working on DECRA is that you are encouraged (compelled?) to develop a community of colleagues in your area. To this end, in early 2023 I held a workshop collating new work on Australian women in business history. I have very fond memories...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Today is publication day for my article, ‘A life in the shadows’: Australian women and family business succession, 1910–2018. I am not ashamed to admit that I was inspired to look into this primarily due to becoming a wee bit obsessed with HBO’s Succession in...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Aug 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Today is a very exciting day! It’s publication day for my article in Gender, Work & Organisation entitled “Bossyboots”: Postfeminism and the construction of Australia’s ‘Corporate Woman’. You can find it open access (with thanks to UTS)...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
I am so relieved. This one was my white whale. For some good reasons (and some unnecessary reasons), this article spent a long time in revisions. The peer review process is transformational most of the time. Having several silent co-authors, who are expert in their...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Dec 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
November was a busy month ! On the 10th November I was in Perth and gave the keynote at the Western Australia Economic History Summit, and a fortnight later at home in Sydney I was in conversation with Professor Carl Rhodes discussing how to redesign universities for...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 31, 2022 | Data, Publishing, Uncategorized
I am thrilled that my new article – “Above board? Interlocking directorates and corporate contagion in 1980s Australia” – has been published in the Australian Economic History Review (see here for the publishers version, which is open access). The piece comes from the...
