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Amelia Walker completed her PhD in early 2016 through the University of South Australia, where she now works. She has also worked as a school workshop poet, a fitness instructor and a nurse. Amelia has published three poetry collections and three poetry resource books. Photo by Martin Christmas. You can see her published papers here.

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​Amy Mead is a PhD candidate at Flinders University in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a Bachelor of Media from the University of Adelaide. Her thesis is tentatively titled “The Walking Woman and Contemporary Australian Culture”, and focuses on how crimes against women are publicly worked into Australian cultural narratives, and how this hinders female mobility in urban spaces. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning literary theory, feminism, pop culture, Australian studies and cultural studies. You can contact Amy by email on amy.mead@flinders.edu.au

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Angela Neale is a PhD candidate at in the School of Education at Flinders University. Her research is investigating misogyny and homophobia in the military. You can contact her by email on neal0018@uni.flinders.edu.au

 

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Ashlee Borgkvist is a PhD candidate within the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide. Her current research is investigating men’s experiences with parenting, work, and the use of flexible working arrangements, and seeks to understand how men negotiate their identities in relation to parenting and work within a gendered framework. Ashlee’s research interests include men and masculinities, the gendered division of labour, organisational cultures, and in previous research the intersection of gender with health and criminology. Outside of research, Ashlee’s interests include travel, wine and cider, eating delicious food, and binge watching TV shows. Ashlee can be contacted by email on ashlee.borgkvist@adelaide.edu.au

 

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Elena Spasovska is in the final year of her PhD at the University of South Australia. The title of her thesis is: “Women’s organizations and sustainable peace within ethnically diverse communities in Macedonia”. Elena holds a Master degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship, from the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a Bachelor Degree in Foreign Languages (Italian and Spanish) from the University of Saint Cyril and Methodius (R. Macedonia). Her research interests are in the field of women and gender, migration, nationalism, peace, conflict, and inter-ethnic dialogue. She hopes that with her research and activism she could contribute towards making her home country, and the world, a better, more equal and a safer place. In her free time, she likes to learn foreign languages, travel and discover new cultures, watch movies, read and write. You can contact Elena by email on elena.spasovska@mymail.unisa.edu.au   

 

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Kristi Urry is a PhD/Master Psych (health) candidate at the University of Adelaide. Her research project is exploring mental healthcare providers’ perceptions and experiences of sexuality and sexual health in mental health settings. Her research interests include sexual health (care), LGBT-QIA health, primary healthcare, and critical psychology. Outside of her studies, Kristi enjoys travel, books, yoga, bouldering, and drinking coffee. Always coffee. You can contact Kristi by email on kristi.urry@adelaide.edu.au

 

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Sarah Pearce is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Flinders University. Her thesis centres on discourses of consumption and embodiment in the work of Emily and Charlotte Brontë. Her research interests include literary studies, women’s writing, women and food, the Gothic, feminist criticism and feminist philosophy, and the ways in which women inscribe experience on the body. Outside of academia, her interests include hiking, yoga, dancing, reading and cooking for those she loves. Contact Sarah by email on sarah.pearce@flinders.edu.au

 

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Shawna Marks is currently earning a PhD in the Department of Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide. Her PhD research is nested in literature on sport and sexual assault and seeks to incorporate the knowledge and beliefs that young amateur and semi-professional Australian Rules footballers about issues related to gender and consent and the culture within which these ideas exist. Shawna’s research interests include sport, sexual ethics, gendered violence, and feminist ethics and methodology.  Shawna’s non-research related interests include travelling to new nearby and faraway destinations, yoga, consumption of wine and Netflix (sometimes all at once), and petting all of the dogs. You can contact Shawna by email on shawna.marks@adelaide.edu.au

 

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Travis Wisdom is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. He completed a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA), MA in Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice at Keele University (UK), and a LLM in International Law and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research interests relate to human rights, particularly the rights of the child, and the socio-legal regulation of human bodies. His thesis investigates how Australian courts and parliaments understand children’s right to physical and mental integrity in the context of intersex genital therapy. You can contact Travis by email on travis.wisdom@adelaide.edu.au

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Honorary committee member:

Dr Cassandra Loeser is Director of the Research Centre for Gender Studies in the Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia. She is also a Lecturer in Research Education in the Teaching Innovation Unit where a large part of her research concentrates on the intersections of gender, sexualities and disability in higher degree by research supervision. You can read more about Cassandra's work here.