Postgraduates in the Centre for Women’s Studies & Gender Research
- Recent Doctoral Graduates:
- Myfanwy McDonald
- Jennifer Mitchell
- Louise Poland
- Director Dr JaneMaree Maher (second from right).
Postgraduate research is a vital part of the Centre's activities and postgradute students are central to the intellecutal life of the Centre. There are around fifteen research postgraduate students (Masters and PhD) being supervised through the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research. They are researching a range of key contemporary gender issues and are working in the social sciences, literary studies and femininst cultural studies. The Centre also offers a range of postgradute coursework opportunites for interested students (see a full list of postgraduate programs ), and we are happy to discuss your study needs with you. A selected list of current and past student research topics is available here. Our staff have a wide range of research supervision expertise and individual staff are happy to talk with you about your topic.
Throughout their candidature, postgradaute students are encouraged to present conference papers, to develop academic networks, and to travel to master classes within Australia and overseas. Many of our students publish articles during their candidature and Centre staff are keen to assist with the development of student publications, in conjunction with thesis supervision. The Centre facilitates peer groups to assist students with writing and research and there is a strong focus on mentoring and professonal development as students work towards the completion of their theses.
Recently graduated students are an important part of the Centre community and a number of them now hold academic posts.
Dr Kim Tofoletti completed her PhD thesis, Cartographies of the Posthuman in 2004. She currently convenes the Gender Studies program at Deakin University.
Dr Millsom Henry-Waring completed her PhD thesis entitled Exploring the Subjectivities of African Caribbean Women in Britain in 2003 and was the winner of the 2003 Jean Martin Award for Best Australian PhD in a social science discipline from the Australian Sociological Association. She currently teaches in the Sociology Program at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Patricia McCormack completed her thesis entitled Pleasure, Perversion and Death: Three Lines of Flight for the Viewing Subject. She was the winner of the 2000 Mollie Holman Medal for Most Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in the Arts Faculty. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
Current students are also active researchers in their fields of expertise.
Sally Newman won the Margaret Storrs Grierson Scholar-in-Residence Grant at Smith College, USA, and the Lady Leitch Fellowship from the Victorian branch of the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW). Her work has appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and Women's History Review.