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Event details
Join Curtin University’s Gender Research Network (GRN) for a roundtable discussion on the future of gender research.
Hear from our academics as they explore the breadth of gender research taking place across the University and consider what the future holds for these research areas. They will also launch a new dashboard developed by Curtin’s Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI).
This event will be moderated by Professor Katie Ellis (GRN Academic Co-Lead and Centre for Culture and Technology Director) who will be joined by our panel Dr Amy Dobson, Dr Myriam Blin and Dr Kat Ross.
Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with GRN members and learn more about their work.
Light refreshments will be provided.
If you can’t make it in person, you can join us online. Please note a link to stream the event will be sent to you via email closer to the date.
Panellists
Dr Amy Dobson
Dr Amy Shields Dobson (they/them) co-leads the Curtin Gender Research Network and convenes the Digital and Social Media Program at Curtin University. They also lead the Digital Intimacies research stream within Curtin’s Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT). They are an expert across gender and feminism, gendered subjectivities, youth, and social media.
Amy has published widely on youth sexting, gendered representations in contemporary popular media and digital cultures, and contemporary feminine subjectivities. They are the author of ’Postfeminist Digital Cultures’ (2015) and editor of ’Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media’ (2018) with Nicholas Carah and Brady Robards.
Amy’s current ARC and other competitively funded research projects include work on young people’s responses to #MeToo and gender violence awareness, facial image editing apps, body image, and selfies in youth cultures, and below-the-line youth-targeted alcohol and nightlife marketing on social media.
Professor Katie Ellis
Dr Katie Ellis (she/her) is a Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University where she researches disability and digital media.
She has worked with people with disabilities in the community, government, and in academia and published widely in the area of disability, television, and digital and networked media, extending across both issues of representation and active possibilities for social inclusion.
Dr Kat Ross
Dr Kat Ross (she/they) is an astrophysicist post doctoral researcher working on GLEAM-X, a radio rainbow view of the sky using the Murchison Widefield Array at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara.
During her PhD, she focused on baby black holes and twinkling galaxies using Australian telescopes and in 2022, was awarded the WA Premiers Student Scientist of the Year. Kat is also the CEO and founder of IncludeHer, a not-for-profit that seeks to change the lone-white-male-genius narrative in STEM.
In 2023, IncludeHer published the first comprehensive content analysis of Australian science courses and found 145 scientists were mentioned, yet only one of which was a woman. Kat and the international team at IncludeHer are now developing resources for teachers to adapt current lesson plans to address the gender bias in the curriculum, and are working with curriculum developers to create a modern, inclusive, and engaging approach to science education.
Dr Myriam Blin
Dr Myriam Blin (she/her) is the Head of the Charles Telfair Centre and the Faculty for Accounting, Finance and Law at Curtin Mauritius. She is actively involved in the development, advocacy and delivery of Gender Transformation Leadership training programmes and sectoral support for the private sector in Mauritius. She sits on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee of the Eclosia Group and the Inclusive Development Sub-Committee of Business Mauritius.
Myriam is an economist by training with more than 20 years’ experience in academia. She started her academic career in the UK, first at the University of Manchester and then the School of Oriental and African Studies. She has worked across several institutions in Mauritius and the UAE.
Her research focuses on the political economy of development, particularly looking at how social and gender structures affect the allocation of resources and economic outcomes. Myriam holds an MA in Development Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester.