RCGS research areas
Members of the research centre undertake research in three broad areas:
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gender, work and economy with reference to the future of paid and unpaid work, public policies, economic and social policy, rural activities and practices, trade unions, gender budgets, rural practices, the state, domestic violence, care and labour movements
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gender and education including schooling, pedagogy, demography and family formation, information technologies, tertiary education and history
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gender and cultural studies including art history, visual art, the body, the family, subjectivity, identity, memory, place sexualities, racism and postcolonialism.
Ongoing research programs
These links provide more information on some of our current research in selected areas.
- Engineering, gender and workplace cultures
- Food, place, gender and ethnicity
- Gender and the arts
- Identity, race, culture and place
- Japanese/Asian studies, feminisms, gender and ethnography
- Women and lifelong learning
International collaboration
- Collaboration with UNESCO on women worker's social rights
- Gender-responsive budgeting and the Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on the Status of Women
- International VET reform projects
Links
The following links provide information and research content central to the themes of the Research Centre for Gender Studies
- Security4Women
- Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE)
- Women on the Line
- Women's Rights Action Network Australia, The women's report card: turning UN rhetoric into local action (PDF 912 kb)