- Lecturer in Australian Politics, UNSW
Dr Blair Williams is an award-winning academic and is currently a Lecturer in Australian Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Australian Politics at Monash University (2022-6) and a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) at the Australian National University (2020-2).
As a gender politics scholar, her most recently published research can be found in Men and Masculinities, the Australian Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Politics and Gender and Women's Studies in Communications, among others. Dr Williams' current research agenda focuses on the gendered media coverage of women in politics, gender and sexuality in Australian politics, political leadership masculinities and the politics of COVID-19.
Dr Williams is highly visible in the media, serving as a regular contributor to The Canberra Times and The Conversation, and as a Federal Political Correspondent for ABC North and West SA. She is also a frequent contributor to national and international radio, TV, newspapers and podcasts, including ABC's 7.30, Radio National, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, BBC, Al Jazeera and Le Monde. In 2021, she was awarded the ANU Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Impact and Engagement.
Experience
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2026–presentLecturer, UNSW Canberra
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2022–2026Lecturer, Monash University
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2020–2022Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, ANU
Education
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2020The Australian National University, PhD
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2014University of Adelaide, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Publications
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2021Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: Introduction to this Special Issue, Australasian Parliamentary Review
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2021Where are all the Great Women politicians? A gendered analysis of Australian political biographies, Australian Journal of Biography and History
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2021Still Lacking Her Rights at Work: The Treatment of Women Politicians in the Australian Parliament and Print News Media, Australasian Parliamentary Review
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2020Gender and Political Leadership in a Time of COVID, Politics & Gender
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2020A Tale of Two Women: A comparative media analysis of UK Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, Parliamentary Affairs
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2020It’s a Man’s World at the Top: Gendered media representations of Julia Gillard and Helen Clark, Feminist Media Studies
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2017A Gendered Media Analysis of the Prime Ministerial Ascension of Gillard and Turnbull: He’s “taken back the reins” and she’s “a backstabbing” murderer, Australian Journal of Political Science
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