Research Centre for Gender Studies
The Research Centre for Gender Studies is a multi-disciplinary research concentration at the University of South Australia. It comprises researchers from the Divisions of Education, Arts and Social Sciences and the Division of Business. The research centre fosters excellence and creativity in research and postgraduate training on gender by bringing together the research interests and teaching expertise of university members across nine disciplines.
Goals
To foster research on gender as a key social category of enquiry by building and strengthening
- postgraduate research culture
- the culture of collaboration within the membership
- competitive grant applications
- refereed publications in high quality and useful areas
- interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research
- international research collaborations
- contributions to national and international policy.
The Research and Education Unit on Gendered Violence is a research unit
with membership links to the Research Centre for Gender Studies. Research
in the unit attempts to highlight the significant impacts of gendered
violence and identify strategies for service response and prevention.