WELCOME TO GRADUATE WOMEN VICTORIA
Our goal is to serve and empower women through education and advocacy locally, nationally and internationally.
Nationally we work through the Australian Federation of Graduate Women.
Globally we are part of Graduate Women International.
See our advocacy page for recent action on these fronts.
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BREAKING NEWS
JACLYN BROADBENT
Jaclyn Broadbent, our newest member, is a behavioural psychologist and a tertiary teacher and educator. She is passionate about teaching, and deeply involved in developing innovative solutions to the challenges of online study and large classes. Here is her story.
ELLINOR ARCHER
Mary Archer, known as Ellinor Archer, was a founding member of Victorian Graduate Women, and held the position of Honorary Treasurer for the first ten years of the association’s life, from 1920-1930. She enjoyed an outstanding professional career as a scientist and librarian. Her story has recently been posted on our Members Remembered page; you can read it here.
KAREN SAVAGE
Karen Savage is one of our newest members. She works at the Centre for Human Pyschopharmacology in Hawthorn, and is undertaking a PhD in the University of Melbourne’s Department of Psychiatry. Here is her description of her research.
GWV SUPPORTS ‘STEM’ AND ‘STEAM’
Graduate Women Victoria has long supported STEM, the promotion of the education of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. At its 2017 Annual General Meeting, GWV members endorsed a resolution extending this support to include the education of girls in Arts and Humanities: “That GWV take a stand for the future of girls and women in their individual careers and for the advancement of their communities by supporting and advocating for the idea of a cross-disciplinary educational curriculum currently expressed in the emerging acronym STEAM, an inclusive concept that rejects the idea of a “cultural divide” and recognises that knowledge of the humanities and the arts is integral to learning about science, technology, engineering and mathematics - and vice versa.” This resolution has now been forwarded to the Victorian Minister for Education, James Merlino, asking him to use his influence to ensure that the curriculum taught in Victorian schools will be shaped by such contemporary thinking on the nature of knowledge. See the full letter to the Minister here.
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