Professor Alison Sheridan

Over 350 scholars from around the world gathered in Sydney for the 10^th Biennial Gender, Work and Organization conference hosted by Macquarie University. This is the first time the conference has been held outside the UK, and despite the distance from its traditional site, we saw representation from northern, eastern, southern and western Europe, as well as North America, New Zealand and south east Asia at this year’s conference. Having so many scholars gathered from such diverse cultures provided rich forums for discussion about the doing of gender across the globe.

UNE Business School was well represented, with presentations across the 3 days:

• Dr Sujana Adapa and Professor Alison Sheridan presented paper titled ‘Small Business Owner-managers in Regional Australia – Motivating Factors for Men and Women’ – 14^th June 2018
• Dr Lucie Newsome and Professor Alison Sheridan presented paper titled ‘Gender Segregation in Agribusiness Services: Mapping the Terrain’ – 15^th June 2018
• Dr Subba Reddy Yarram and Dr Sujana Adapa presented paper titled ‘Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility – An Australian Exploratory Study’ – 15^th June 2018
• Dr Sujana Adapa and Dr Subba Reddy Yarram presented paper titled ‘Women in Self-employment and Entrepreneurial Roles’ – 16^th June 2018
• Professor Alison Sheridan, Professor Anne Ross-Smith and Professor Linley Lord presented the paper ‘Gender Capital and changing Board Composition’ – 16^th June 2018.

Dr Subba Reddy Yarram (UNE Business School), Professor Linley Lord (Pro Vice Chancellor and President, Curtin University, Singapor)e, Professor Margaret Hopkins (University of Toledo, USA), Professor Debra O’Neil (Bowling Green State University, USA) and Dr Sujana Adapa (UNE Business School).