The WEN web-mentoring for early career researcher (ECR) women in academia is a mentoring initiative aimed at supporting ECR women in academia (i.e. Post-docs, Level B and Level C academics) across Australia. The program consists of four online thematic mentoring sessions throughout 2023-2024. These sessions will cover a range of essential topics, including research, teaching, and service.
Registration to the first three sessions is free and open to any ECR woman in academia, regardless of WEN membership status.
Each session is structured as follows:
A panel of two senior women academics discussing the session topic facilitated by a moderator:
Registered mentees who are unable to attend their session of interest will have access to the recording.
We are seeking expressions of interest on an ongoing base from any academic level D or level E women economists interested in contributing as a panelist for future sessions and editions of the program. Accessing a diverse and decently sized pool of mentors will ensure the quality, sustainability, and continuity of this initiative.
Senior colleagues can provide their availability by filling out this form, which will only take a couple of minutes of their time.
Mentors
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Dr Frédérique Bracoud is a focused Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She has been lecturing in Financial Economics and Financial Literacy at the School of Economics, University of Queensland, since 2007. Before joining UQ, she was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool and Keele University (UK). As part of her scholarship of teaching, Frédérique designed the three-colour tutorial that customises learning activities to students' level of preparedness. She is the winner of several teaching awards in her School, Faculty, and UQ. She contributed to two reviews of the Bachelor of Economics at UQ and to the digital uplift of the programme. Frédérique hosted the Australasian Teaching Economics Conference in Brisbane in 2015 and 2021 and was a member of the organising committee for the Australian Conference of Economists in 2023. Frédérique is the current Vice-Chair of the Queensland branch of WEN and an Executive Director on the ESA Queensland Committee. |
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Louisa is a Professor of Economics at QUT and leads the Behaviours and Decisions in Agriculture and Natural Resources Program at the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST). Her main research focus is the measurement and assessment of economic and social values to inform decision-makers in the management of natural resources. Louisa has an extensive record of teaching innovation and has received awards and commendations for her work in the UK and Australia. At QUT, Louisa has led the teaching and delivery of economic literacy within the Business degree program for 30,000+ students. Louisa is the current Chair of the Queensland branch of WEN. She is an advocate for women in economics and has extensive experience mentoring women in academia, the public sector, and industry. |
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Dr Tina Rampino (moderator) is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Business and Economics (AIBE) at the University of Queensland. She is an applied economist with experience in labour economics, education, health, and innovation, predominantly working with surveys and administrative data to produce academic and commissioned research outputs. She is particularly passionate about providing evidence to inform policymakers on the causes of disadvantage for the most vulnerable members of society. Tina is a founding member of WEN. She was the inaugural Chair of the Queensland Branch of WEN and the designer of its ongoing mentoring programme. She is currently serving as the Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW) Stirring Committee Chair. |
WEN would like to support early career researcher (ECR) women in academia across Australia through an online mentoring initiative.Registration, which is free and open to any ECR woman in academia, regardless of WEN membership status, is compulsory to participate in the mentoring program. You can find all the details on the program webpage.
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Deborah Cobb-Clark AO FASSA is Professor and Deputy Head (Research) in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney. She is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course; an Officer of the Order of Australia; an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; and a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, she was the Ronald Henderson Professor and Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Her research agenda centres on the effect of economic and social policy on human development, mental health, intergenerational disadvantage, sexual and racial harassment, health, old-age support, education, immigration, and youth transitions. |
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Professor Isabella Dobrescu is the Deputy Head of the School of Economics, co-chair of the STEP UP initiative in Education, a CEPAR Associate Investigator, and an editor of the Journal of Pension Economics & Finance (JPEF). Isabella's interests are in labour, public finance, health and applied econometrics. She has primarily focused her structural work on topics related to consumption and saving dynamics, as well as studying risk-taking and cognition via nonparametric partial identification methods. |
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Professor Agnieszka Tymula is the Director of the University of Sydney Node of ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, President of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Chief Investigator on the ICRG Centre of Excellence for Research on Gambling, co-Director of theNeuroeconomics Summer School, Director of the University of Sydney Experimental Economics laboratory. In 2020-2023 she was an elected Executive Committee member of the Economic Science Association and in 2019-2021 she was an elected Board Member of the Society for Neuroeconomics. Prof. Tymula is on the editorial board of Experimental Economics. Professor Tymula’s research combines theory and methodology from economics, psychology, and neuroscience for a better understanding of how people decide, why they sometimes make seemingly wrong decisions, and how to make them better choosers. |
Mentors
Professor Anu Rammohan is a Professor of Economics and the Director of International Relations at the Business School, University of Western Australia. She was the Senior Fellow at UWA's Australia Indonesia Centre (2019-2024), and the academic lead at UWA's Australia India Institute (2019- 2023). Anu currently serves as a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts and the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Grants panel, and was on the Editorial Board of the Economic Record (2015- 2023).
Professor Begoña Domínguez is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. Currently she serves at the President of the Australasian Macroeconomic Society (AMS), after formerly served as Board Member (since 2014), Treasurer (2016-17) and Vice-President (2017-2022). She is an elected member of the Australasian Standing Committee of the Econometric Society, 2024-Present, a Senior Research Fellow of E6 since 2022, a member of the RBA Shadow Board (since 2022) and co-Director of the Macroeconomic Theory Program, both at CAMA (ANU). Begoña is one of the founding members of SSHOC (Stop Sexual Harassment and bullying On Campus), 2020, a mentor for WEN since 2019 and for the Econometric Society since 2024.
Associate Professor Duygu Yengin is the Associate Head of Research at the School of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Adelaide. Dr. Yengin holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester (USA) and a Master's in Economics from the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on fairness and equity, with applications in gender equity, game theoretic models for bargaining power, land and housing markets, and axiomatic mechanism design. Duygu has served as the Interim Head of the School, Deputy Head of the School, the Faculty Director of Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and the University Academic board member. She is a Co-founder of the Women in Economics Network in 2017, the current Co-President of the SA branch, an Executive member of the Economic Society SA, and a former management committee member of the Fay Gale Center for Research on Gender, UoA.
Marian Vidal-Fernandez (Moderator) is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. She is a human capital economist who employs applied micro-econometrics to study how policy-relevant issues in labor, education, and health impact minorities and populations from a disadvantaged socio-economic status (SES). For instance, she has studied how setting minimum academic requirements to enrol into athletic activities or obtaining a driving license increases high school graduation and lowers crime rates among poor young adults, the increasing relevance of grandmothers as childcare givers, the birth order effect, the impact personality traits affect productivity, the impact of water contamination on children’s education in India, and the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts of experiencing the death of a sibling. Marian has published in leading international and interdisciplinary journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, and the Economic Journal. Prior to joining The University of Sydney in 2015, she held a lectureship at the University of New South Wales. Marian is passionate about scientific dissemination, and has been awarded several teaching awards. Her academic work has been cited in several leading media and news outlets, including SMH, Scientific American, Forbes, and BBC News.