Ms Kirsty McLaren

BA(Hons) (ANU); MPhil (ANU)

Research Associate and PhD candidate

ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

Areas of expertise

Research

2012-ongoing: PhD candidate, School of Politics and International Relations, ANU (ANU Australian Postgraduate Award)
2008-ongoing: Research Associate, Mapping the Australian Women's Movement, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU

Teaching

2010-2015: Tutor and guest lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific - Comparative Government and Politics (POGO8012), with a focus on critical and international perspectives on democracy
2010-2013: Convenor, Research Pathways and Enrichment program, Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre, ANU. Included developing and convening seminar series on Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous perspectives and the academy, under a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Enhancement Grant (2011). For more detail see our nomination for a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Student Learning (link below).

ANU Award for Excellence in Tutoring (in recognition of work at the Crawford School and the Tjabal Centre), 2012

Service

2012-2014: Graduate student representative, International Political Science Association Research Committee on Gender Politics and Policy
2011: Co-convenor, Women’s Advancement in Australian Political Science, Australian Political Studies Association workshop, hosted by ANU

Radicalism and working for government: intersections between social movements and the Liberian state (PhD thesis)

http://chelt.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/awards/vc/Recognising%20Excellence-%20VC%20Awards%20booklet%202013.pdf#page=27&zoom=auto,0,804

Research Pathways and Enrichment Program, Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre

This Centre for Higher Education Learning and Teaching booklet provides more detail about the program.
http://cass.anu.edu.au/research_projects/mawm
Mapping the Australian Women's Movement

Social movements such as the civil rights movement, the environment movement and the women's movement have changed the political landscape of Western democracies in recent decades. If social movements play a crucial role in bringing new issues onto the policy agenda and new actors into the policy process, we need to know more about the life-cycles of social movements and their effects on the Australian polity.

This project explored social movement evolution with reference to the experience of the Australian women's movement.

The project was designed with four inter-connected aims, which are reflected in its structure:
1. to map the trajectory of the women's movement in Australia 1970–2005, especially by examining women’s movement events;
2. to map the movement’s institutional legacy;
3. to assess the movement’s discursive impact, particularly by studying online communities; and
4. to build a better understanding of social movement evolution, by developing criteria whereby claims can be made that a social movement is either in abeyance or 'over'.

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