Call for Applications for Grants

Public Administration RESEARCH TRUST FUND 2010

Jointly sponsored by IPAA / University  of Canberra
Call for Applications for Grants

This fund is jointly sponsored by the National Council of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and the University of Canberra.

Each year it makes a number of small grants to assist researchers in meeting various kinds of study expense.  The expectation is that projects assisted by grants from the Fund will lead to publication of articles in AJPA or in other appropriate public administration outlets.

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JIVE Seminar Series AUGUST 2010

Women's Group Mentoring Program/ University of Canberra

Date:  Tuesday 24 August 2010
Time:  12.00 noon – 1.30pm
Venue: Building 12, Level B, Room 50, University of Canberra

TITLE
Chewing over the ‘C word’: career choices, cost and consequences.
And why a working woman’s weaponry must include disposable razors and a bag of rotting fruit.

ABSTRACT
Virginia Haussegger explores the journey many women make when we look at our lives through the prism of the ‘C Word’. What are the costs and consequences of our choices. And when does our right to choose in fact become a ‘non-choice’? Where do children fit in? And what’s ambition got to do with it?
These are the kind of issues every woman struggles with at some stage of her life, and yet so often we muddle on thinking we are alone.  Then, just when we least need it, some new piece of academic research will point out that working women are modern day slobs – with hairy legs!

SPEAKER DETAILS
Virginia is the face of ABC TV News in Canberra. She is an award winning journalist, author and social  commentator whose extensive media career spans more than 20 years. Her work has taken her around the world, reporting for Australia’s leading current affairs programs, on Channel 9, the 7 Network and the ABC. In the late 80s, she was the youngest women to be appointed host of the ABC’s flagship program the 7.30 Report and went on to host that show in four capital cities. Virginia has been published across a range of media. As a weekly columnist for The Canberra Times and regular contributor to The National Times and The Age, her outspoken views on women and their place in contemporary society have been widely debated in the Australian media, in public forums, and on talkback radio. Virginia’s seminal article on feminism and childlessness was ranked by The Age newspaper as among the most significant opinion pieces published in its 150 year history. Virginia’s book  Wonder Woman: the myth of ‘having it all’, was launched at the National Press Club in 2005 by Julia Gillard and broadcast live on ABC TV. A highly sought after speaker and an active community member, Virginia regularly addresses corporate and government forums on a diverse range of issues including women, power and leadership. Virginia also has a long association with the arts and sits on various boards and committees. She is President of the Canberra International Film Festival.

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