UNSW@ADFA - Equity Unit - Promoting Talented Women at UNSW@ADFA

Promoting Talented Women

The Rector Funded Visiting Fellowship Scheme for Women
The Dorothy Green Award for Excellence in Research and Research Supervision
Vice Chancellor's Childcare Support Fund for Women Researchers (staff) at UNSW

Rector Funded Visiting Fellowship Scheme for Women Guidelines

The aim of the Rector Funded Visiting Fellowship Scheme for Women is to encourage Schools at UNSW@ADFA to seek association with women scholars and academics who will strengthen existing research areas and help the College in recruiting female academic staff and postgraduate research students from other institutions.

The University of New South Wales is committed to improving employment equity for women. The Rector Funded Visiting Fellowship scheme for Women is an initiative of the Gender Equity Strategy Committee aimed at:

identifying and promoting female talent
increasing the numbers of women appointed at levels where they are under-represented
Developing an organisational culture that attracts and retains women
Reducing the pay gap differential between men and women
Recognising and pro-actively managing female talent for academic roles

Funds will be made available for one Woman Fellow per School per year. Funding under this scheme may provide a contribution towards living expenses for periods of one to four months. Visitors coming for periods of less than on e month should receive an invitation letter directly from the Head of School and these visits would normally be supported by School funds.

Financial support offered through the Rector Funded Visiting Fellowship for Women Scheme is provided in order to:

develop research strengths in the College and to redress gender imbalance in academic staffing
contribute to a research strength in the School
enhance the staff profile of the School
enhance the reputation of the College as an employer of choice for women academics through promotion and publicising of their activities at UNSW@ADFA
promote future research relationships (especially with regard to potential post-graduate students)
establish relationships with other tertiary institutions with a view to encouraging postgraduate research enrolments and interesting employment and career development at University College

It is therefore anticipated that all Rector Funded Visiting Women Fellows will:

conduct at least one public seminar during their tenure at UNSW@ADFA and
at the end of their tenure provide a report on activities undertaken during the visiting fellowship.

The Rector Funded Visiting Fellowship Scheme for Women is available to women candidates who meet the criteria for Visiting Academic appointments at UNSW (http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/salaries/livingexp.html)

Heads of School are encouraged to seek out candidates for these fellowships.

Schools should submit their applications to the Research & Research Training Office including a completed HR@) Visiting Academic Invitation Form (http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/hrforms.htm), for consideration in two rounds each year (31 March and 31 October)

The Dorothy Green Award for Excellence in Research and Research Supervision

Born Dorothy Auchterlonie in Sunderland, County Durham, England, on the 28th May 1915 she moved to Australia in 1927, at the age of twelve. After finishing school she taught in Sydney at a small school ( private). She became an honours graduate of the University of Sydney and was then awarded a Master of Arts. (English).

In 1944 she married literary historian, critic and Sydney University Librarian H.M. Green. During 1942-1949, she worked as a reader, journalist, essayist, reviewer, broadcaster and editor of the news with the ABC. A co-principal of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Warwick, Queensland between 1955 and 1960, she subsequently became the first woman lecturer at Monash University, lecturing in Australian, English and American literature. She moved to Canberra in 1964 and over an eight year period lectured in Australian Literature at the Australian National University. In 1976 she became a lecturer in the Department of Lanaguage and Literature for UNSW at the Royal Military College, Duntroon until her retirement in 1980. She became an Honorary Visiting Fellow in at Duntroon until 1986, and then in the English Department at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra until her death.

She began well known in the early 1980s for her book reviews in newspapers and Australian journals. Green was an academic, a scholar, a critic, a writer and a poet, who contributed articles and reviews to almost all Australia's literary, cultural, and political journals and newspapers. Her contribution to Australian literature includes co-editorship of the journal Hermes, three volumes of poetry, collections of critical essays, lectures, articles, reviews and biographies. The Academy Library (UNSW@ADFA) holds over 90 boxes of her manuscripts and correspondence with notable Australian authors (eg Patrick White, Judith Wright, Manning and Dymphna Clark, Rosemary Dobson, James McAuley, Humphrey McQueen, Betty Roland and Harold Stewart).

Green was the winner of the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award (1973) and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year(1973). She was awarded an AM in 1984 and an AO in 1988, in recognition of her services to Australian literature. In December 1987 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales. She was an Honorary Life Member of the Association of Australian Literature which has an annual Dorothy Green Lecture.

Published works: Kaleidoscope (1940), Fourteen Minutes : short sketches of Australian poets and their work, from Harpur to the present day (by H.M. Green, new and revised edition by Dorothy Green, 1950), The Dolphin (1967), Australian Poetry (editor, 1968), Ulysses Bound : Henry Handel Richardson and her Fiction (1973), Something to Someone (1983), The Music of Love (1984), History of Australian Literature 1789-1950 (by H.M. Green, revised by D. Green, 1984-1985), Henry Handel Richardson and her Fiction (new ed., 1986), The Writer, the Reader and the Critic in a Monoculture (1986), Imaging the Real : Australian Writing in the Nuclear Age (co-editor with David Headon, 1987), Descent of Spirit : Writings of E.L. Grant Watson (editor, 1990) and Writer, Reader, Critic (1991).

The Dorothy Green Award

1. Preamble

UNSW@ADFA values outstanding performance in both teaching and research and recognises the need for excellence in both core activities of university life. In order to increase the opportunities for recognising outstanding research by women at UNSW@ADFA, the Dorothy Green Award (DGA) has been developed as an initiative of the ADFA Gender Equity Advisory Committee (GEAC).

The DGA is, therefore, part of a strategy by UNSW@ADFA to improve opportunities for academic women on campus, to address the gender gap in senior academic posts and to recognise women academics for outstanding contribution to research at UNSW@ADFA.

The Dorothy Green Award supports what we value as a University as defined in the Blueprint to Beyond: Strategic Intent document including:

Innovation, initiative and creativity
Leadership
Recognition of Merit
Equity, opportunity and diversity

At its inaugural meeting, the Gender Equity Advisory Committee (GEAC) identified four priority areas to be addressed in order to change the gender profile of academic staff at UNSW@ADFA and to increase the participation of academic women on campus.

The DGA is designed to support the four priority areas identified by the GEAC and thus to promote the following objectives:

Attracting academic women to ADFA through recognition of excellence in research and research supervision
Retaining academic women at ADFA by providing a career incentive to stay;
Developing and Promoting academic womens’ career paths, and
Communicating with women about the potential for career development at ADFA

Judgment should be made relative to the candidate’s academic position and subject to opportunities for research in their career.

2. Guidelines

The Dorothy Green Award will be made in recognition not only of an outstanding contribution to research at UNSW@ADFA but also with regard to the outstanding ongoing research potential of the recipient. Specific indicators will include:

Major publications, contribution to world-class journals
Significant achievement/innovation in research
Future research potential with benefits to the University’s research/teaching profile

It is not envisaged that the Dorothy Green Award will be made annually, but each year the Rector will write to all UNSW@ADFA Heads of School to ask if they are able to nominate an academic staff member for consideration for the Award by the Senior Management Committee (SMC).

Nominees must agree to be considered for the Award.

Nominees should provide the Rector of UNSW@ADFA with the following:

A full curriculum vitae with academic qualifications, appointments, honours, awards, prizes. Details of research student supervision, publications, research grants, teaching innovation and work other than publications to be considered as achievement in research and/or teaching should be included and reported according to the norms of the nominee’s discipline.

The award will have a financial component of $5000. This amount may be taken as income or research support. Applicants who are successful will not be eligible to reapply for the award for two years after receiving the Dorothy Green Award.

Vice Chancellor's Childcare Support Fund for Women Researchers (staff) at UNSW

The Vice-Chancellor's Childcare Support Fund enables women researchers (staff) at UNSW with childcare responsibilities to enhance their research careers on a national or international level.

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