Clare Burton Memorial Lecture and Scholarship

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Since 1999 the ATN's Women's Executive Development Program has combined with the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency and with state women's advisors to host the Clare Burton Memorial Lecture in each capital city.

These lectures commemorate the leading researcher, bureaucrat and academic Dr Clare Burton, a pioneering Australian researcher, activist and practitioner in the field of gender equity who died in 1998. The lectures focus on her specialist field of gender equity.

Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2008

The 2008 Clare Burton Memorial Lecture will be held at Gardens Point between 5:30-7:30pm on September 3.  The theme is Australian women: still flourishing in a changing environment. For further information about this event contact Kym Mayers via k.mayers@qut.edu.au or on (07) 3138 4174. Event Flyer

This years Guest speaker is Professor Daniela Stehlik from Curtin University of Technology. Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities at Curtin University of Technology. Over the past twenty years her research has explored the intersections of resiliency, human service practice, and social cohesion focussing on families and communities in regional and rural Australia. Daniela's research has focussed on the generative capacity of women's energy and enthusiasm as practitioners, volunteers, and community members as an important component of community resiliency. She is currently co-leading a five year international program of conservation and sustainability research being undertaken on the south coast of Western Australia. Daniela's contribution to this program is a specific interest in the impacts of intergenerational change on peri-urban pressures and land use change. In April 2008 Daniela had the privilege of being a member of the 2020 Summit 's Community, Family and Social Inclusion Stream.

ABSTRACT

Women constantly respond to complexity and rural women have a particular set of challenges due to climate variability and pressures for adaptation. The ways in which these women both experience and respond to the resulting community fragmentation, now an issue of global significance, is important for all of us.

To celebrate the tenth lecture in the Clare Burton Memorial Lecture Series, and in recognition of the passionate aims of Clare Burton for a more just and equal society, this lecture reflects on a decade of significant change in Australia and proposes that this can be considered a positive catalyst for women. The lecture will consider the question ‘How can the experiences of Australian women, particularly from rural and regional Australia , contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges ahead for Australia 's environment?'

Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship

The inaugural Clare Burton Scholarship was awarded in 2002 and is now awarded annually to a recipient from any of the five universities of the Australian Technology Network (Curtin, QUT, RMIT University, UniSA or UTS). The scholarship is for $10,000 and is available to either a commencing or continuing student enrolled in post graduate course work or in a research degree where the major piece of work is focused on gender equity.

Application and information

For more information contact Kym Mayers on 3138 4174 or k.mayers@qut.edu.au

* The ATN (Autralian Technology Network of universities) is comprised of Curtin University of Technology, University of South Australia, RMIT, University of Technology Sydney and Queensland University of Technology.