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Interviewing humans; or, a project update
Today is (probably) the last of my interviews for 2023. Over the last 6 months I have interviewed over 25 women in executive and board roles of Australia’s largest companies from the 1990s to now. Some have been in person, and some have been...
New article! Interrogating diversity: Feminism and the destructuration of Australian board appointment practices
Our article on feminism and Australian company board diversity has just been published by Corporate Governance: An International Review! It is a very good reminder that sometimes research takes a while to find it's 'right' home. We had completed...
New article! Sharyn Kay Cederman for the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Recently I was invited to contribute an entry on feminist icon/corporate leader Sharyn Cederman to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. I am always impressed with the quality of coverage, care and rigour taken by the editors of the ADB, and I...
New article! The Whiteboard: Decoupling of ethnic and gender diversity reporting and practice in corporate Australia
I am so thrilled have our article on the decoupling of diversity disclosure and practice published in the Australian Journal of Management! It's a really fun piece, and I'm proud to make such an important, practical contribution to our knowledge of...
Capitalising diversity; or, the update on my excel spreadsheets
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...
Postfeminism and Australian media; or, the reason I’m cranky this week
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...
Event: Women and Australian business history
Happy new year! As we ease back into work, I have been busy on two tasks: first, preparing for a new session teaching Diversity and Inclusion (this time for a very strong group of postgraduates). Second, I've been working on final preparations for...
Event: Redesigning universities for an interdisciplinary future
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...
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Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School
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