Nominations
Kate Bisshop-Witting | Alison Booth | Valerie Braithwaite | Dorothy Broom | Carole Brown | Val Brown | Kylie Catchpole | Hyaeweol Choi | Mary Kilcline Cody | Marianne van Galen Dickie | Gaye Doolan | Cressida Fforde | Nadia Frankham | Debjani Ganguly | Shirley Gregor | Judy Hodgins | Tamara Jacka…
In pursuit of two goals
An award-winning astronomer who needs both career and family “When I was younger, I read books like Trixie Belden, where the girls thought physics, geometry and trigonometry were too hard,” says astrophysicist Professor Lisa Kewley. “I had gotten the idea from those books that physics would be too…
Foreword
ANU is well known for its unique character. Part of this is a warm,egalitarian ‘Australianness’ but it can also manifest as the ‘blokey’ culture of an institution that is numerically and visibly male in its academic and governance profiles. ANU Inspiring Women is a project animated by the idea that…
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Really important and a lot of fun
A woman in science and engineering can improve the world and enjoy doing it In 2010, Dr Kylie Catchpole’s work on nanophotonic light trapping was listed as one of MIT Technology Review’s ‘10 most important emerging technologies’. In 2011 she was an episode winner on ABC television’s New Inventors…
Balancing the books behind academic pursuit
A self-described ‘invisible but always available’ administrator ensures schools hum efficiently and creatively Apart from her often mis-spelled, hyphenated surname, Dr Kate Bisshop-Witting makes all other elements in her working life as smooth and efficient as possible. She finds working as an…
The other side of the world
An administrator describes how she has balanced work, family and study since arriving in Australia as a refugee Fleeing war-torn Sarajevo in the 1990s, Ranka Videnovic, then in her late twenties, arrived in Australia with her husband, her five-month-old baby and $200 in her pocket. She has never…