Episode 33: Today on The Gender Card, Griffith University phd candidate Sofia Ammassari tells us about her research across three countries with Duncan McDonnell from Griffith University and Marco Valbruzzi from the University of Naples - looking at how gender impacts young people’s political ambitions. Studies have long and consistently shown that women tend to be less politically aspirational than men, as they are less interested in standing for election as candidates. But Sofia’s research foun...
Feb 14, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Today on The Gender Card, we speak to two esteemed Griffith University researchers, Professor Leonie Rowan and Dr Dhara Shah, who are investigating how gender discrimination impacts both the personal and professional lives of academic women in Australian universities. They're leading a dynamic interdisciplinary team that will use intersectionality theory to gather the experiences of academic women, and find out why so many still experience job insecurity, teaching overload, expectations around e...
Feb 07, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Violence against women is a major human rights violation and public health problem the world over, prevalent across all societies. Today on The Gender Card, we speak to three academics who are leading the way in a landmark Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence, which will investigate the causes of this violence. The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - or CEVAW - will become the world’s leading research program to stop violence against women. It wil...
Feb 01, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Today on The Gender Card, we explore the emerging research around critical race feminism and how that intersects with feminist practice in arts and academia. Griffith University’s Dr Nilmini Fernando’s innovative research was recently featured in the Journal of Intercultural Studies - particularly her work in a participatory theatre-based project in Ireland creating a platform for women seeking protection - to self-represent their stories of gendered race in their encounters with the asylum syst...
Dec 14, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Episode 29: Today on The Gender Card, we explore teacher activism, and how that resistance translates into the classroom. Phd candidate Carla Tapia has delved into how teachers can bring about social change through resistance, despite constant scrutiny and limitations on their teaching. Using Indigenous methodologies to understand how teachers engage with their students, she showed how teachers have developed ways to give them space to resist - by giving alternative views to history in the class...
Nov 22, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 29
On this episode of The Gender Card, we delve into the complexities and wide-ranging experiences of women recovering from depression. Griffith University’s Professor Simone Fullagar and Dr Adele Pavlidis have just released a book along with their colleague Wendy O’Brien, called Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery. Their research approach uses poems and feminist memory to explore why women report much higher rates of depression than men, yet gender is often ignored in medical ...
Nov 10, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Like the octopus she sees herself to be, Griffith Business School’s Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation Naomi Birdthistle has spread her tentacles worldwide in support of women entrepreneurs. Her passion for entrepreneurship started at home, supporting her family business. Now Naomi has multiple projects on the go, in the same way as the women she supports to find the confidence to go on to their next level of success. Naomi’s work with women in business has led to in...
Jun 22, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Today on The Gender Card, we delve into the contested territory that overlaps consent and sport. Griffith University’s Dr Indigo Willing is leading the research project called Red Flags, Banter and Blurred Lines: Exploring Consent in Sport. She’s working alongside Dr Adele Pavlidis, going where many have feared to tread, asking male sports leaders about respectful relationships and how to better prevent violence against women. With Dr Willing’s background as a skateboarding and masculinities exp...
May 10, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 26
The United Nations International Day of People with Disability has a long esteemed history, celebrating understanding and acceptance of people with a disability around the world for almost three decades. It’s a day to honour the benefits of an inclusive and accessible society for all. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a key touchstone moment for disability rights, as it’s a historic and comprehensive legally binding international treaty that Australia was pivotal in de...
Dec 03, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 25
As Covid-19 continues its relentless march throughout the world, so too is recognition of what is now becoming known as the Shadow Pandemic. Emerging research gathered from the front lines by the United Nations, shows that since the outbreak of Covid-19, all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, has rapidly increased. On this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25, the UN is calling for a global collective effort...
Nov 29, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 24
As the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow draws to a close, amidst debate about how much it has actually achieved, researchers such as Dr Melissa Jackson are solving intractable climate change dilemmas on the front line. Melissa Jackson is a research fellow with Griffith University’s Climate Action Beacon, recognising her novel interdisciplinary approach to water and energy management, particularly in remote communities such as the islands of the Torr...
Nov 12, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Today on The Gender Card we speak to two proud First Nations PhD candidates at Griffith University, whose Indigenous identity and family connections along with their wealth of experiences from the classroom as former teachers are informing their specialist research. Kombumerri saltwater woman Madeleine Pugin is investigating Indigenous Human Rights, particularly cultural rights, and how Aboriginal groups can have their identity better recognised. While Gumbaynggirr/Dunghutti woman Julie Ballanga...
Nov 12, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 22
The United Nations has dedicated 12 August as International Youth Day. As we focus on young people around the world, we are dedicated to making young people's voices more mainstream, and help them take part in meaningful engagement with political, economic and social decisions. We are joined by two Griffith University researchers who have found that when you give young people access to arts and culture, even in challenging and isolating environments, the benefits for all of society are immense.D...
Aug 12, 2021•29 min
The Gender Card discussed human trafficking for World Anti-trafficking Day. While many people think slavery and human trafficking are vestiges of a long distant past, found only in movies and books, the reality is, every year thousands of men, women and children are exploited by traffickers. In 2018, more than 50,000 people were bought and sold in 148 countries around the world. Many of those are from south-east Asia, but it is by far not the only region where humans are trafficked for money. An...
Jul 29, 2021•33 min
In this special episode of The Gender Card podcast celebrating World Refugee Day, we walk through the multicultural streets of inner city Brisbane with local community leader Seble Tadesse. And we find out how the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention is being challenged around the world by speaking to two experts from Griffith University’s Gender Equality Research Network - Emma Robinson and Thu Nguyen. As part of these discussions we talk about family violence and the violence that refugees s...
Jun 21, 2021•55 min
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May 24, 2021•42 min
The 2021 Federal Budget was billed as a budget for women? Was it? Join Nance Haxton and experts from the Gender Equality Research Network as they drill down into the detail of the spending spree. The panel of experts include Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer, Dr Elise Stephenson, Professor Fabrizio Carmignani and Associate Professor Pavinder Kler. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 13, 2021•40 min
Nance Haxton in conversation with Professor Patri… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 04, 2021•57 min
Inclusive education: What is it and how can we he… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 05, 2021•45 min
Today we talk to former senator Natasha Stott Despoja about her appointment to a top United Nations role and ending discrimination against women. In January, Natasha starts her four-year term as one of 23 independent experts monitoring the effects of countries around the world to improve gender equality. In this interview, she tells us how the need to protect women’s rights is even greater in the wake of coronavirus, and how she keenly feels her responsibility in her new role as the only expert ...
Nov 27, 2020•42 min
Please note: This podcast includes graphic conversations about sexual abuse and violence. The conversation is disturbing and may cause distress. Please call 1800 RESPECT if you need to seek counselling, information or support services. This episode of the Gender Card comes at a crucial time, at the start of a global campaign of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The International Women's Development Agency is calling on us all to add our voices to this global movement by challeng...
Nov 25, 2020•30 min
While many social equity programs have had to pau… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 16, 2020•27 min
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Sep 18, 2020•36 min
During the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic violence h… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 21, 2020•46 min
In February 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic w… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 12, 2020•33 min
The worldwide health implications of the coronavi… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 23, 2020•33 min
Ethnomusicologist Dr Catherine Grant has travelle… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 23, 2020•36 min
Domestic violence remains a scourge of society, w… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 23, 2020•37 min
Human trafficking is a term we are now familiar w… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 20, 2019•31 min
Household finance. It’s something we all have to … See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 20, 2019•24 min
