The ANU Gender Institute had a fabulous time celebrating another great year for the Institute! So much skill, hard work and passion has gone into the research, workshops, lectures, dialogues and public outreach our Institute has generated in 2018. We would like to thank all ANU staff and students and our guests beyond the ANU for their enthusiastic participation.

We especially acknowledge the excellent presentations by Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt, Sharon Bell, Elanor Huntington and Steve Blackburn, some of which are available below, and the spirited panel that followed on women in science and technology with a special focus on computing and engineering. 

Siobhan McDonnell discussed the Navigating the Field inaugural course, initiated by herself and Annie McCarthy, which was funded primarily by the Gender Institute. The course focused on the the challenges of field research, including issues of gender, positionality and experiences of sexual harassment and violence. The course website can be found here. 

• Linda Ma, Best Honours thesis, Labour of love: consumption, exchange and power among employers and foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, CAP
• Ashley Thomson, Best Masters thesis, Stealthing and Neoliberalism: Towards the Minority Discourse of the Stealthing Panic, CASS/CMBE
• Helen Law, PhD Thesis (first prize), Gender and mathematics: pathways to mathematically intensive fields of study in Australia, CASS
• Benjamin Hegarty, PhD Thesis (second prize), Becoming Incomplete: The Transgender Body and National Modernity in New Order Indonesia (1967–1998), CASS
• Briony Lipton, Best article by a Higher Degree Research student, Writing through the labyrinth: Using l’écriture feminine in leadership studies, CASS

Post event media:

» Event podcast 57.3MB (duration 1 hour 11 minutes 35 seconds)

» Navigating the Field website

Maeve Powell delivers the Acknowledgement of Country	Professor Margaret Jolly, Convener of Gender Institute, College of Asia and the Pacific
Professor Brian Schmidt, ANU Vice-Chancellor	Dr Siobhan McDonnell, Research Fellow, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, launches the 'Navigating the Field' website
Masters prize recipient, Ashley Thomson, receives his prize from Professor Margaret Jolly and ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt	Articles prize recipient, Briony Lipton, receives her prize from Professor Margaret Jolly and ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt
Professor Sharon Bell, DVC (Strategy and Planning) Western Sydney University	Professsor Elanor Huntington, Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Associate Professsor Steve Blackburn, Associate Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science	Panel on women in science and technology
Seminar presentation by Gender Institute prize winner Briony Lipton	Seminar presentation by Gender Institute prize winner Ashley Thomson