by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 15, 2023 | Data, Ideas, Writing
In the quest to improve the number of women on boards, we often focus on the individual. We police women’s CVs and tell them their personal characteristics (or personality) are the reason they haven’t reached leadership roles. Tertiary and postgraduate qualifications,...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 1, 2023 | Publishing, Writing
I recently submitted the first empirical article from my ARC DECRA project (except for the pilot, here and here)! It uses a content analysis of the Australian Financial Review’s weekly ‘Corporate Woman’ column to argue that popular discourse around Australian women in...
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...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Sep 9, 2022 | events, Ideas, Publishing
Last month, I was thrilled to co-host the symposium ‘Australasian economic history and the future of interdisciplinarity’. Held online and at ANU, on the land of the Ngunnawal people, a diverse range of contributors came together to discuss new research...
