Lynette Browning

• Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Education (Honours), PhD
• Executive at Central Queensland University

The higher education sector is a dynamic environment where universities compete on a global basis for resources, students, and high-quality staff. The impending retirement of the baby boomer generation will create increased competition for research leaders. One way to address this is to develop research leaders from existing researchers. However, l...

Purpose: To describe organisational strategies that support early career researchers in building a successful track record which can lead to a successful academic research career. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on more than a decade of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating professional development programs for early care...

Gender equality in academia has been monitored in Australia for the past three decades so it is timely to reflect on what progress has been made, what works, and what challenges remain. When data were first published on the gender composition of staff in Australian universities in the mid-1980s women comprised 20 per cent of academic staff and held...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel strategy for building research capability in a young university with an emerging research culture. Investment in building research capacity is essential for universities to remain competitive, but one of the challenges for younger universities is developing the research capability of indivi...

Building research capacity is essential for universities to remain competitive in the current environment, whilst investing in developing the research capability of individuals is vital to the future of young universities with an emerging research culture. A programme of this type can assist early career researchers to build their track record and...

While data on the representation of academic women in Australian universities has been monitored since the mid-1980s, little is known about how their representation has changed since a study undertaken in the mid-2000s (Winchester, Lorenzo, Browning, & Chesterman, 2006). To determine how academic women are currently represented in Australian univer...

Women are in the majority as both students and staff in many universities worldwide but are still under-represented at the senior and management levels. Leadership development programs for women staff are in place in many universities with the aim of increasing the percentage of women in senior and decisionmaking positions. This statement was made...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine the hypothesis that under‐representation of women in Australian universities reflects barriers in the academic promotion process. Design/methodology/approach This study uses three complementary approaches. Promotion policies and guidelines are examined using content analysis of documents from all...

Women are in the majority as both students and staff in Australian universities but are still under-represented at the senior and management levels. Affirmative action strategies were mainstreamed into the strategic planning processes at the University of South Australia in 1996 with the aim of increasing the retention and participation rate of wom...

The under-representation of women at senior academic levels in Australian and other universities demonstrates slow progress towards gender equity after 20 years of equal opportunity legislation and affirmative action initiatives. This research is based on the hypothesis that this significant under-representation of women reflects barriers in the ac...