Vice Chancellor's Gender Equity Fund
Applications are now closed for 2025
The Fund provides funding to projects which progress whole-of-institutions strategic objectives, addressing priority issues affecting students and staff, and help the whole University to achieve greater gender equity, inclusion and diversity. The funding is available to student clubs, SRC representatives and staff.
Applications are invited under the following funding categories include:
a. Strategic projects
b. Whole of University education, awareness raising and/or engagement
c. Applied research projects focused on systemic solutions and improvements
This funding is for projects that would not normally be funded by Schools, Institutes or Divisions.
Applications must be completed in the word document
Any enquiries regarding the Fund can be emailed to gefund@westernsydney.edu.au.
Final Reports
The Vice-Chancellor's Gender Equity Fund was launched in 2017. The final reports for all Fund projects are available below. Project findings and recommendations are reviewed by the Vice-Chancellor's Gender Equity and Respectful Relationships Advisory Committee, which determines the suitability and prioritisation of actions, in keeping with the Committee's Terms of Reference. The Committee also oversees the ongoing implementation of recommendations, as appropriate.
- 2024 Final Projects - 2024 Reports are under final review
- 2023 Final Projects
- 2022 Final Projects
- 2021 Final Projects
- 2020 Final Projects
- 2019 Final Projects
- 2018 Final Projects
- 2017 Final Projects
2024 Final Projects
- Surviving Violence, Surviving University - Dr Ashlee Gore, Leisha Du Preez and Shima Shahbazi
- Endo@Western: Co-Designed Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Guidance for WSU Staff - Dr Michelle O'Shea, Danielle Howe, Sarah Duffy and Associate Professor Mike Armour
- Developing a Research and Audit- Informed Framework to Support Working Carers: a Focus on University Workplaces - Dr Michelle O'Shea and Leila Frijat
- Unfolding Narratives: A Co- Designed Video-Based Multidisciplinary Educational Resource for Trans and Gender Diverse People's - Dr Diana Jefferies, Associate Professor Liz Thyer, Associate Professor Karen Mattock, Dr Paul Glew, Dr Cris Townley, Ms Caroline Lunt and Associate Professor Brahmaputra Marjadi
- Supporting Student Parents at WSU - Associate Professor Chloe Taylor, Professor Kate Huppatz, Dr. Kieryn McKay, Dr. Michelle O’Shea, Dr. Amie Matthews, Dr. Sharlotte Tusasiirwe, Dr. Navin Naidoo, Dr. Roland Gamsjaeger and Jenni Haines
2023 Final Projects
- - Emma Taylor, Steve Lee and Ingrid Dernee
- - Brahm Marjadi, Nicole Peel, Sowbhagya Micheal, Alison Short, Suzie Horne, and Andrew Kellett
- - Dr Caroline Mills, Associate Professor Liz Thyer, Stephen Zissermann, Dr Nicole Peel and Dr Kylie Barr
- - Dr Jacqueline Willis and Dr Erika Smith
- - A/Prof Kate McBride, A/Prof Freya MacMillan, A/Prof Emma George, A/Prof Genevieve Steiner-Lim, A/Prof Chloe Taylor, Dr Diana Karamacoska, Miss Najwa-Joelle Metri and Miss Stacie Powell
2022 Final Projects
- - Dr Rakime Elmir, Dr Maria Bhatti, Dr Aila Khan, Maryam Hashim and Feda Abdo.
- - Dr Sarah Duffy, Dr Michelle O'Shea, Associate Professor Emilee Gilbert and Dr Alina Eward
- - Anna Denejkina, David Lim, George Turner, Anita King, Eman Shatnawi, Rannie Singh, Brahmaputra Marjadi
2021 Final Projects
- - Prof Kerry Robinson, Dr Emily Wolfinger, Assoc Prof Lucy Nicholas, Assoc Prof Corrinne Sullivan
- - Professor Caroline Smith, Dr Cris Townley, Assoc Professor Kate Huppatz and Dr Peter Bansel
- - Dr Erika K. Smith
- - Dr Michelle O’Shea, Dr Sarah Duffy, Dr Jennifer Cheng and Dr Dorothea Bowyer
- (5 Year longitudinal study) - Assoc. Prof Freya MacMillan, Dr Kate McBride, Assoc. Prof Emma George, Assoc. Prof Genevieve Steiner, Dr Chloe Taylor, Dr Diana Karamacoska, Najwa-Joelle Metri, Leone Cripps
- - Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe
2020 Final Projects
- -Dr Dorothea Bowyer, Dr Milissa Deitz, Dr Tinashe Dune, Ms Hollie Hammond, Dr Anne Jamison, Ms Anita Eseosa Ogbeide, Dr Chloe Taylor, Ms Jaime Vassallo
- - Assoc. Prof. Lucy Nicholas, Prof. Kerry Robinson & Cris Townley
- - Dr Nicole Bridges and Vanessa Campbell
- - Dorothea Bowyer (School of Business); Kate McBride (School of Medicine); Carolyn Ee (NICM); Freya MacMillan (School of Science and Health); Sandra Marjanovic (Translational Health Research Institute); Elaine Burns (School of Nursing and Midwifery).
- - Stephen Zissermann and Nathalia Alcantara
2019 Final Projects
- (opens in a new window) - Assoc Professor Kate Huppatz, Assoc Professor Nida Denson, Dr Peter Bansel and Cris Townley
- (opens in a new window) - Professor Tonia Gray, Assoc Professor Jane Mears, Ashwini Kanitkar and Joelle Breault-Hood
- (opens in a new window) - Dr Michelle Cull, Dr Kristy Coxon and Dr Manisha Dayal
- (opens in a new window) - Helen Barcham, Office of Vice-Chancellor and President
- (opens in a new window) - Collaborative project by the Engaged Parents Network
- (opens in a new window) - Dr Sarah Duffy, Dr Aila Khan, Dr Patrick Van Esch and Assoc Professor Meg Smith
- (opens in a new window) - Dr Emilee Gilbert
- (opens in a new window) - Professor Kathryn Holmes, School of Education
2018 Final Projects
- Listening to and Incorporating the Voices of Women at WSU: Building a welcoming, supportive, and sustainable workplace for traditionally marginalised groups, focusing on casual staff - Assoc. Professor Jane Mears, School of Social Sciences
- (opens in a new window) - Assoc. Professor Tonia Gray, School of Education
- (opens in a new window) - Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright and Dr Kieryn McKay, Office of the DVC (Academic)
- (opens in a new window) - Dr Sheree Gregory, School of Business
2017 Final Projects
- (opens in a new window) - Dr Elaine Burns and Zoi Triandafilidis
- (opens in a new window) - Dr Lyn Francis
- (opens in a new window) - Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright and Dr Kieryn McKay
- (opens in a new window) - Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright, Dr Kieryn McKay, Dr Kate McBride and Dr Freya Macmillan
- (opens in a new window) - Assoc. Prof Meg Smith, Dr Michelle O'Shea and Dr Aila Khan.
For more information about Gender Equality Initiatives at 91ԭƬ visit our Gender Equality webpage.
For more information about the Vice-Chancellor's Gender Equality Fund contact Michelle Falconer, Director, Equity, Diversity and Wellbeing.