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A global leader in soil biology, an internationally trained health researcher and educator, an advocate for Aboriginal health and wellbeing, and a molecular cell biologist leading RNA research have been recognised as inspirational women whose work improves lives. ","sxaTags":[{"title":"Education"},{"title":"Diversity"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"School of Human Sciences"},{"title":"School of Population and Global Health"},{"title":"Staff"},{"title":"UWA School of Agriculture and Environmental Science"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Discussion celebrates women working to improve lives of women","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/international-wmons-day-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/discussion-celebrates-women-working-to-improve-lives-of-women","publisheddate":"2026-03-03","summary":"
Research by women and for the benefit of women will be the subject of a panel discussion next week at The University of Western Australia to celebrate International Women’s Day.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"Graduate School of Education"},{"title":"School of Human Sciences"},{"title":"School of Indigenous Studies"},{"title":"School of Population and Global Health"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Women key to shaping Australia's philanthropic future","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/women-giving-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/february/women-key-to-shaping-australias-philanthropic-future","publisheddate":"2026-02-25","summary":"
A new report has positioned women as a central economic and social force shaping how generosity is practised, sustained and grown across Australian society.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Centre for Social Impact"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Our place culture and heritage"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Why comparisons between AI and human intelligence miss the point","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-ai-brain-card-944x522.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/february/why-comparisons-between-ai-and-human-intelligence-miss-the-point","publisheddate":"2026-02-06","summary":"
Predictions of superintelligent AI ignore that human intelligence is collective, embodied and cultural, making direct comparisons with machines misleading.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"School of Social Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Trailblazing professor and brilliant protégé awarded honorary doctorates","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/hon-docs-fiona-annie-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/december/trailblazing-professor-and-brilliant-protege-awarded-honorary-doctorates","publisheddate":"2025-12-18","summary":"
It was a case of deep mutual admiration when WA’s most esteemed child health champion and one of her high-flying students received honorary doctorates alongside one another at The University of Western Australia last night.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Alumni"},{"title":"Education"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"Paediatrics"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Our-community"}]},{"title":"‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/conversation-languagecard-944x522.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/december/we-gotta-act-white-how-voice-recognition-tech-fails-for-aboriginal-english-speakers","publisheddate":"2025-12-05","summary":"
Voice tech often fails Aboriginal English speakers, forcing them to change how they speak and leaving many feeling excluded from everyday digital convenience.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"School of Social Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Our-community"}]},{"title":"Innovators, problem solvers, advisors and leaders: alumni op-ed by Kate West (BE '00)","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/kate-west-uwa-alumni-card-944x522.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/november/engineering-alumni-op-ed-by-kate-west","publisheddate":"2025-11-24","summary":"
As she embarks on a new chapter of her career journey, Kate West (BE '00), Chief Officer, Business & Markets, APAC at Arup, reflects on her student days, international career and numerous achievements, to share a rallying cry for engineers everywhere.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Alumni"},{"title":"Development and Alumni Relations"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Our-community"}]},{"title":"Event explores creating safe workplaces for FDV victim-survivors","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/fdv-event-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/november/event-explores-creating-safe-workplaces-for-fdv-victim-survivors","publisheddate":"2025-11-20","summary":"
How Australia’s paid family and domestic violence leave entitlement is being implemented and what more can be done to create safe, supportive workplaces for victim-survivors will be explored at an event hosted by The University of Western Australia this month.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Business School"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Business-and-law"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"}]},{"title":"Indigenous trailblazer awarded national mental health prize","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2024/pat-dudgeon-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/november/indigenous-trailblazer-awarded-national-mental-health-prize","publisheddate":"2025-11-19","summary":"
Professor Pat Dudgeon AM has been awarded the 2025 Australian Mental Health Prize for her leadership in Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"School of Indigenous Studies"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"}]},{"title":"Top researchers recognised in Premier's Science Awards","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/j-bately-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/november/top-researchers-recognised-in-premiers-science-awards","publisheddate":"2025-11-18","summary":"
World-leading canola genomics researcher Professor Jacqueline Batley was last night named Scientist of the Year at the 2025 Premier’s Science Awards – one of six winners from The University of Western Australia.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Our Women"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"School of Molecular Sciences"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Staff"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]}]}