A/Prof. Danielle Chubb1, Prof Maria Rost Rublee, Prof Rebecca Strating, A/Prof Sarah Percy, Dr Daniel Veloza-Franco, Ms Melissa Conley Tyler
1Deakin University, Australia
Biography:
This panel is sponsored by Women in International Security (WIIS).
Chair: Melissa Conley Tyler is Executive Director at Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue (AP4D). She is skilled in International Relations, Think Tanks and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and has extensive expertise in Australian foreign policy, Australia-Asia engagement and diversity in international affairs.
Speakers:
Maria Rost Rublee is Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne, with expertise in international relations, including nuclear politics, maritime security, and gender and diversity in national security. She is President of Women in International Security-Australia
Bec Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and a Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has extensive experience working in the academia-policy-public engagement nexus in the fields of international diplomacy and security.
Sarah Percy is Associate Professor of International Relations the University of Queensland. Sarah has expertise in unconventional combatants, maritime security, and the relationship between norms and international law.
Danielle Chubb is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Deakin University. She has authored books on Australian public opinion and foreign policy, transnational activism, and inter-Korean relations.
Daniel Veloza has a PhD in Japan’s foreign policy and cultural diplomacy from Monash University. He is a research and teaching associate at Monash University and the University of Melbourne.
Abstract:
States around the world have enacted ambitious multi-year programs to increase workplace diversity in the national security sector, with a particular focus on women. Yet the results have been limited, with only marginal and inconsistent increases in women’s representation. This roundtable considers how the social construction of national security in the public domain may contribute to this significant problem. How does knowledge construction in universities, the media, in think tanks and the government lead to gendered ideas about the ideal national security workforce member? How do norms around gender and national security socialise current and future members of the workforce? Participants in this roundtable will consider the gendered and socially constructed nature of national security, and the implications of this for the recruitment and retention of women in the national security sector, speaking both from personal experiences and academic research. Taking an intersectional approach, the discussion will consider the empirical and theoretical consequences of the gendered nature of national security in the public domain.