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• Elizabeth Reid Boyd is a Lecturer in the School of International, Cultural and Community Studies at Edith Cowan University. Previously she was Director of the Centre for Research for Women, a joint research initiative of the four public universities...More

  Elizabeth Reid Boyd is a Lecturer in the School of International, Cultural and Community Studies at Edith Cowan University. Previously she was Director of the Centre for Research for Women, a joint research initiative of the four public universities in Western Australia, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia. She completed a Ph.D. at Murdoch University on mothers staying at home and the childcare debate. Elizabeth Reid Boyd’s research interests include Employability across Diversity; Community and Cultural Development; Youth, Gender and the Body and Family/Work Balance. Research Projects addressing these themes include Being There: Mothers Who Stay at Home, A Study of Separations in Nature and Time; research into Social Literacy, Job Seeking and Gender (funded by the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium); Job Seeking for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups (funded by the South Metropolitan Migrant Centre and the Department of Training) and “But I’m Not Unemployed”: An exploration of the employability maintenance needs of mothers and fathers outside the paid workforce (with Northern Suburbs Career Options, funded by the Lotteries Commission of WA, Social Research Funding Program). Most recently, with Professor Sherry Saggers, Elizabeth Reid Boyd was awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant for research into Employment literacy: Young people, job readiness and employability in Western Australia. Elizabeth Reid Boyd is also a contributor, referee and book reviewer for academic journals including the International Journal of Women in Leadership, the Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering and Women’s Studies International Forum. With Dr Abigail Bray she is the author of a book for teen girls Body Talk: A Power Guide for Girls (Hodder Headline, 2005). She is represented by Curtis Brown. Less

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