This article explores the implications for feminist research and publishing in Australia in the new ‘ERA’ of research excellence. Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is an initiative of the Australian Federal government to assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally recognised experts (Australian Research Council, 2008).
BairdB. (2010) ‘Ambivalent optimism: Women's and Gender studies in Australian universities’, Feminist Review, No. 95: 112–127.
3.
BoltA. (2004) ‘Grants to Grumble’The Sun Herald, 19 November, 18.
4.
Dawkins, The HonJ.S. (1988) Higher Education: A Policy Statement, (‘the white paper’), Canberra: AGPS.
5.
DeverM., BorehamP., HaynesM., KüblerM., LaffanW., BehrensK., and WesternM. (2008) Gender Differences in Early Post-PhD Employment in Australian Universities: The Influence of PhD Experience on Women's Academic Career Final Report, University of Queensland Social Research Centre, Brisbane.
Gendered Citizenship in Multi-Cultural Europe: The impact of contemporary women's movements (2009) Website. Available: http://femcit.org/news.xpl?theID=34.
HemmingsC. (2006) ‘Ready for Bologna: the impact of the declaration on women's and gender studies in the UK’European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4: 315–323.
11.
HemmingsC. (2008) ‘Tuning problems: notes on women's and gender studies and the bologna process’European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2: 117–127.
SpongbergM., and MooreN (2007) ‘The future of feminist research’Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 22, No. 52: 1–2.
21.
ThorntonM. (2002) ‘Sexual harassment losing sight of sex discrimination’Melbourne University Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 2: 422–444.
22.
ThorntonM. (2006) ‘Feminism and the changing state: The case of sex discrimination’Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 50: 151–172.
23.
ThorntonM. (2007) ‘Feminist research in a climate of insecurity’Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 22, No. 52: 3–13.
24.
ThorntonM. (2009) ‘Academic un-freedom in the new knowledge economy’ in BrewA., and LucasL. (2009) editors, Academic Research and Researchers, Maidenhead: Open University Press.
