We are delighted to announce the 2025 winners of the Gender Institute Prizes for Excellence in Gender and Sexuality Research!

Congratulations to Jessie, Ashley, Laura and Ruby for their outstanding research.

• Isabel Mudford - PhD Thesis (joint winner)

Making LGBT health: queer citizenship, community and government in Australia after AIDS

• Zoe Smith - PhD Thesis (joint winner)

Cruelty, Coverture, and Colonial Women’s Writings: A Social and Cultural History of Domestic Violence in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, 1880-1914

• Yuchen Wu - Honours Thesis 

The Journey Home or Beyond: Gender Dreams and Migration for Chinese Women Graduates in Australia

• Romitesh Kant - Journal Article (joint winner)

The contours of masculinity: leadership, ethnicity, and gendered power in Fiji’s 2022 elections

• Zoe Smith- Journal Article (joint winner)

'Domestic tyranny’ and ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Australia

We will celebrate our prizewinners in a research showcase in August. Details will be announced via our newsletter and our events page.