Ms Cara Ellickson

Position/s:Director, Gender Consortium
Centre for Development Studies
Phone: +61 8 82012242
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Location: Social Sciences South (225)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Cara has experience designing and facilitating capacity building projects on gender equity, community development and culturally respectful service delivery. Cara's teaching, training and research on gender and social issues is informed by her international development experience in Vietnam, Indonesia and Samoa as well as her public sector experience working in senior policy and planning roles with the South Australian Department of Human Services, South Australian Health Commission and National Public Health Information Development Unit.

Qualifications

BA(Hons) (Adel)
Master in International and Community Development (Deakin)

Honours, awards and grants

Flinders University, Social Sciences Faculty Award (2009) for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching (Team Member)
DEEWR Endeavour Executive Award (2009)
Australian Learning and Teaching Council (2011) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (with Dr Anuradha Mundkur and Mr Corey Durward)

Key responsibilities

As the Director of the Gender Consortium, Centre for Development Studies, Cara's responsibilities include the management, coordination and delivery of gender training and fellowship courses under programs such as the Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Program (IASTP), Australian Leadership Awards - Fellowship Program (ALA). She is also responsible for the development and delivery of teaching materials for the Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis course. Cara works in partnership with the Associate Director, Gender Consortium, Dr Anuardha Mundkur and members of the Gender Consortium's interdisciplinary advisory group.

Teaching

Teaching interests

Gender and development
Gender mainstreaming and gender analysis
Gender and health
Participatory methodologies
Policy development and strategic planning

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Research and supervision

Research interests

Gender and development
Gender mainstreaming
Gender and health
Gender Analysis

Capacity building in gender analysis, gender mainstreaming, policy development and strategic planning for clients such as UN Women Australia Inc, AusAID, NZAID, Vietnam Women's Union, Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Australian Government Office for Women

Applied policy research on gender and development

Publications

Refereed journal articles
Mundkur, A. and Ellickson, C. (2012). Bringing the Real World in: Reflection on Building a Virtual Learning Environment. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36(3), pp.369-384. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2012.692073.
Lin, V., Gruszin, S., Ellickson, C.M., Glover, J., Silburn, K., Wilson, G., et al. (2007). Comparative evaluation of indicators for gender equity and health. International Journal of Public Health, 52(Suppl1), pp.19-26. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-006-6050-1.
Other public research outputs
Haggis, J., Schech, S.B., Baulderstone, J.M. and Ellickson, C.M. (2005). Occasional Paper: Gender Equity in DECS - A Focus on Women (Government report). , pp.1-44. [online]. Available from: http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/docs/documents/1/GenderEquityPaperFlinders.pdf.

Professional and community engagement

Board Member, Vietnam Women's Association of SA



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