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Book SynopsisNot all research careers look the same. Not all academics spend their working lives in labs, or dark offices surrounded by dusty books. A research career can mean working in theatres or schools, influencing policy, working with the world’s leading brands and businesses, and much, much more.
Showing the true diversity of scholarship, and the women leading the way, ResearcHER offers an A-Z of research and researchers from around the world, exploring who researchers are and what they really do, all whilst celebrating female scholarship. Each short chapter offers an insight into a real-life researcher, their background and journey into a research career, what they’re currently researching, their top tips for budding researchers, and fun facts and activities to explore yourself.
ResearcHER smashes stereotypes to show you that research is not just conducted by men and women in lab coats or stuck in stuffy offices; researchers are women from all backgrounds, researchers come from diverse geographies, are disabled and able-bodied, are transgender, nonbinary, queer. Researchers look just like you, and you could be one too.
Trade ReviewSo often - too often - women have been excluded from higher education. When women became students and academics, we are labelled 'teachers.' We completed the 'housework' of higher education, writing curriculum, designing assessment, and 'caring' for students and colleagues.
So often - too often - women are invisible. Marginal. Marginalized. The warmup act. Never on the main stage.
ResearcHER rewrites the story we have heard all our lives. This powerful book introduces not only a group of remarkable international women researchers, but reveals the power of their diversity. It remains inspiring to see how women - so often living and reading and thinking against the odds and against systems and structures that demean and undermine - can transform knowledge.
-- Tara Brabazon, Professor of Cultural Studies (Flinders University), Professor of Higher Education (Massey University).
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Women in Academia support Network – who even are we and what do we do?
Chapter 1. Fatima A. Junaid
Chapter 2. Jennifer A. Rudd
Chapter 3. Jenny-Lee Thomassin
Chapter 4. Maria Maclennan
Chapter 5. Zarah Pattison
Chapter 6. Bernadine Jones
Chapter 7. Cinderella Temitope Ochu
Chapter 8. Melissa Anne Beattie
Chapter 9. Sarah Mohammad-Qureshi
Chapter 10. Mandy Hughes
Chapter 11. Jasmine Hazel Shadrack
Chapter 12. Jennifer Leigh
Chapter 13. Chioma Vivian Ngonadi
Chapter 14. Jessica (Jess) Mannion
Chapter 15. Liza Betts
Chapter 16. Rhys Archer
Chapter 17. Lyndsay Muir
Chapter 18. Linda Baines
Chapter 19. Sophia Cooke
Chapter 20. Adele Pavlidis
Chapter 21. Allison Upshaw
Chapter 22. Helen Ross
Chapter 23. Gemma Masson
Chapter 24. Lauren Alex O’Hagan
Chapter 25. Jessica Korte
Chapter 26. Juliette Wilson-Thomas
Chapter 27. Kate Massey-Chase
Chapter 28. Jackie Carter
