From programmer to professor via motherhood
Proof that there are many paths to success for a determined woman The journey to academic prominence can take many different paths. For as many career scholars who completed, maybe even started, their undergraduate studies knowing that they are destined for the academic world, there are those who…
Quiet defiance
An Indigenous health project officer who always meets a challenge “I can remember my father saying to me as a teenager ‘you’re just a girl, you don’t need an education,’” says Gaye Doolan. Now as the Indigenous Health Project Officer in the School of Rural and Indigenous Health at the Medical…
New wave woman
An endowed chair professor of Korean studies offers some insights on how listening to the past can help women rewrite the future Professor Hyaeweol Choi has travelled the globe, riding on a new wave which was never meant to take her overseas. The ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies –…
Think big in small moments
A sociologist inspired by ordinary people doing extraordinary things Emeritus Professor Dorothy Broom is an acute observer and a teller of emblematic stories in which the personal and professional are powerfully fused. Now at the University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,…
Everyone needs to hear ‘you can do it’
This ground-breaking social researcher and teacher has shown that for ideas to flourish, they must be thoroughly interrogated and patiently nurtured It is immediately clear when meeting the gently spoken but authoritative Professor Valerie Braithwaite that she is passionate about the pursuit of…
A double life
A professor of economics relaxes by writing successful novels When asked what drives her ongoing achievements in economic research, Professor Alison Booth reaches for the word ‘obsession’. It’s hard to say whether this is a prerequisite for the academic personality, but in Alison’s case it helps…