According to Deborah Hodgson women occupy just 27 per cent of senior academic positions and the University of Newcastle is doing something about it with its women in research fellowships. PVC R Hodgson says the programme will provide $30 000 to UoN women for 12-month research projects, plus mentoring and career coaching. The first fellows include:

In-Young Yeo who works on soil moisture, Hayley Scott, exercise and asthma, Jessica Allen, carbon in energy storage and Hannah Power, geomorphology of sandy beaches.