Susan Harwood: Gender Equality Specialist, Researcher, Trainer, Facilitator and Consultant. Background: TAFE (VET), University, private and public sectors; male-dominated organisations, NGOs.

A skilled Facilitator, Susan is also trained in the application of the tools and techniques of gender mainstreaming. As an accredited Mediator Susan demonstrates her high level communication and negotiation skills and also delivers training on how to manage conflict, and how to work with difficult people, difficult situations.

International Consultancy work: as a Gender Equality, Diversity and Social Inclusion Specialist Susan brings her skills to a variety of stakeholders in the Pacific and other countries in our region to design, monitor and evaluate strategies to respond effectively to disability, social inclusion and gender equality issues, including gender-based violence and, the empowerment of women. Projects undertaken over the past 11 years include a gender equity survey for Samoa Police, a scoping Project on women’s leadership; an EU-funded Gender Mainstreaming project to enhance the participation, profile and safety of women working in the fisheries sector, and the deployment of a social inclusion strategy in the primary education sector in Vanuatu. Other international gender projects include a desktop project on the Women’s Empowerment Principles for UN Women in Serbia.

Susan Harwood & Associates: Susan’s management consultancy business was established in Northbridge Western Australia in 1994 and specialises in:

• Gender equality and women’s empowerment
• The prevention, management and investigation of workplace bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination and victimisation.
• Reviews of internal investigations
• Coaching and mentoring

Timor-Leste: Susan Harwood was deployed by DFAT for 12-months in 2015-16 as a Gender Equality Specialist in Timor-Leste. She worked alongside the AFP to provide advice on how to assist the local police (the PNTL) to improve the profile and participation of women in policing, and, to improve policing responsiveness to gender-based violence. She provided strategic advice on how to improve gender-focused initiatives; in particular, how to engage with local agencies to strengthen referral services. Working with an AFP colleague Susan conducted a Gender-Focused Environmental Scan, specifically designed to engage men in policing (as well as other stakeholders) in structured interviews to map gender initiatives across Timor and to assess the effectiveness of same.

Susan was subsequently attached to the REDR humanitarian roster: RedR gives highly skilled humanitarian experts the opportunity to make a real difference and build the resilience of the world’s most vulnerable before, during and after disaster or conflict. (https://www.redr.org.au/australia-assists/)

Cardno Pacific Gender Panel: in 2017 Susan was appointed by Cardno’s ‘Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development’ program to the Pacific Women Gender Advisory Panel.

KIT Royal Tropical Institute and the UN Women Training Centre –

Susan completed a comprehensive 6-month training course for Gender Trainers, organized by the UN Women Training Centre in Amsterdam. The only Australian participant on the first course, Susan is now an accredited Gender Trainer on the UN Women register of gender trainers. The inaugural course comprised 25 participants from more than 20 countries, representing over 15 international and national organisations as well as independent trainers.

All participants from the first course assessed the programme as contributing to their professional development and, fulfilling their learning goals. This accredited program consists of face-to-face and on-line learning modules with excellent personnel and great support. For more information see programme overview or website: https://lnkd.in/gY_zD4u Course Directors: Franz Wong and Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

Susan Harwood’s practitioner experience is supported and strengthened by her ongoing role as a prize-winning researcher with publications in the fields of organisational change, masculinist organisations, development and gender equality. Her PhD “Gendering Change: An Immodest Manifesto for Intervening in Masculinist Organisations” (2006) describes a major collaborative, participatory action research project between the University of Western Australia [UWA] and, Western Australia Police[1].  She trained and facilitated six insider research teams of men and women to apply a “gender lens[2]” to the gendered practices of their workplace. Her dissertation was awarded the Industrial Relations prize at UWA for the “most outstanding thesis”.  In 2015 Cambridge Scholars Publishing published Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality [Flood, Michael and Howson, Michael (Eds)], to which she contributed the following chapter: “Gendering Change: how to engage men with women in building gender equality in masculinist workplaces”.

Conference Speaker and Presenter: Susan is a regular contributor to international conferences and in 2017 co-presented with two colleagues a paper on gender and development to an international conference for women in law enforcement in Cairns. Examples of recent conference presentations include the following:-

Harwood, S; Wilson, B and Bakker, D (2017) Deploying Misogyny: the challenging disconnect between policy and practice in international development. IWLEC 2017, Cairns.

Harwood, S (2016) Unhealthy and unsustainable: gendered practices and their negative impact on the prevention and management of workplace bullying and discrimination. International Association of Workplace Bullying and Harassment Conference, Auckland New Zealand April 2016.

[1] Funded by government, UWA and the research partner through an ARC Linkage grant
[2] Developed by researchers at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons, Boston.

Cardno Pacific Gender Panel: in 2017 Cardno’s ‘Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development’ program appointed Susan to the Pacific Women Gender Advisory Panel.

KIT Royal Tropical Institute and the UN Women Training Centre –

2018: completed requirements to become an Accredited Gender Trainer on the UN Women register of gender trainers. This is an accredited program of 6 months' duration consisting of face-to-face and on-line learning modules with excellent personnel and great support. For more information see programme overview or website: https://lnkd.in/gY_zD4u Course Directors: Franz Wong and Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

The first cohort of PDPGT of participants (2017-2018)

UN Women Accredited Gender Trainer (2018)

Fellow Australian Institute of Management

Resolution Institute (formerly LEADR): Accredited Mediator

Australasian Council of Women and Policing [ACWAP]: Member

Member, International Association for Conflict Management;

Member, International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment;

Accredited Administrator MBTI; EQi

Australian Post-graduate Research scholarship, 2001-2004 (PhD Scholarship)

2004 Griffith University Prize for Excellence in Research on Women in Policing, Australasian Council of Women and Policing Awards;

2007 Heneman Industrial Relations Prize for “Most Outstanding Thesis”, Business School University of Western Australia

2008: Selected to participate in the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit to give a gendered perspective on “The Future of the Australian Economy” Stream.

Harwood, S (2006) PhD Thesis UWA. Gendering Change: an immodest manifesto for intervening in masculinist organisations.

Click here to view and download:  https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/gendering-change-an-immodest-manifesto-for-intervening-in-masculi

Harwood, S; Wilson, B and Bakker, D (2017) Deploying Misogyny: the challenging disconnect between policy and practice in international development. IWLEC 2017, Cairns.

Harwood, S (2016) “Unhealthy and unsustainable: gendered practices and their negative impact on the prevention and management of workplace bullying and discrimination”. International Association of Workplace Bullying and Harassment Conference, Auckland New Zealand April 2016.

Harwood, S (2015) Gendering Change: How to engage men with women in building gender equality in masculinist workplaces in Flood, Michael with Howson, Michael (Eds) Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge.

Harwood, S and McDermott, H (2014) Women’s Leadership in Policing in Australia in Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia e-Encyclopaedia: A History of Women’s Leadership in Australia. Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (Eds).

Harwood, S and McDermott, H (2011) Audrey Ann Fagan: the High Cost for Women Leaders in Policing in Davis, Fiona, Musgrove Nell and Smart, Judith (Eds) Founders, First and Feminists. Women Leaders in 20th Century Australia The University of Melbourne Press, Victoria.

Harwood, S (2010) The Critical [and subversive] Act of (In) visibility: a strategic reframing of ‘disappeared and devalued’ women in a densely masculinist workplace” in Lewis, Patricia [University of Kent, UK] and Simpson, Ruth [Brunel University, UK] Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of (In) Visibility in Organization Research. Palgrave MacMillan, England.

Bacchi, C., Eveline, J., Binns, J., Mackenzie, C & Harwood, S. (2010) Gender Analysis and Social Change: Testing the Water in Bacchi, C and Eveline, J (Eds) Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering practices and feminist theory. University of Adelaide Press.

Robyn Daniels is an experienced senior administrator who has worked extensively in Australia in the public sector, universities, unions and in primary and secondary education, as well as in the non-government sector. Robyn’s formal qualifications are as a solicitor, administrator and teacher.

Her most recent experience is as a senior manager in the Western Australian Department of Health, where Robyn developed and implemented policy related to two recent pieces of legislation: the Health Services Act 2016 and the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014.   Prior to that she acted as a senior solicitor, providing advice to the senior executive and to government ministers on complex legal matters related to health.

Earlier Robyn managed a not-for-profit community legal centre specialising in providing advice to low-paid workers on employment law matters.

Prior to taking up law Robyn worked in universities in the area of gender and diversity, managing a team who conducted training programmes and developed materials for staff and students. She also worked as a consultant to private companies seeking to develop inclusive workplaces.