Ms Briony Lipton

Position: PhD Graduate

School and/or Centres: School of Sociology

Location: External

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Briony Lipton is completing her PhD candidate in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her thesis explores how key discourses of feminism, neoliberalism and leadership, constitute academic performativity and identity in the contemporary Australian university. Briony has co-authored a monograph with Elizabeth Mackinlay (University of Queensland) entitled We Only Talk Feminist Here: Feminist Academics, Voice and Agency in the Neoliberal University (2017) as well as having published her research in several peer-reviewed journals.

Thesis topic: Briony's PhD thesis explores the relationship between women, feminism, and university leadership in Australia.

Book

Lipton, B., and Elizabeth Mackinlay (2017). We Only Talk Feminist Here: Feminist Academics, Voice and Agency in the Neoliberal University. Palgrave Pivot.

Book chapters

Lipton, B. (forthcoming 2018) “Feminist be/longings? Negotiating bodies and spaces in the neoliberal university’. In, D. Bissell et al. (eds) Social Beings, Future Belongings: Imagining the Social, Routledge.

Lipton, B. (forthcoming 2018) “Evidence of ability to work with others: Academic collegiality and gender inequality in the contemporary Australian university”. In M. Breeze et al. (eds) Educational Futures and Fractures: Time and Space in the Neoliberal University, Palgrave.

Lipton, B., and Gail Crimmins (forthcoming 2019) “New bottles for new wine: Recipes on arts-based research practice as a form of feminist resistance”, in G. Crimmins (ed) Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy, Palgrave.

Lipton, B., and Elizabeth Mackinlay (2016) “Daring to lead with feminism in higher education: Let it blaze, let it blaze.” In E. Mackinlay, Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist. Sense Publishers.

Journal articles

Lipton, B. (2018) “Conference baby: Gendered bodies, knowledge and re/turning to academia” Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417752441

Lipton, B (2017) “Measures of success: The paradox of promotion for academic women.” Higher Education Research and Development 36(3): 486-497.

Lipton, B (2017) “Writing through the labyrinth: Using l’ectriture feminine in leadership studies.” Leadership 13(1): 64-80.

Lipton, B. (2015). “A new ‘ERA’ of women and leadership: The gendered impact of quality assurance in Australian Higher Education.” Australian Universities Review 57.2: 60-70.

Lipton, B. (2015). “Gender and precarity: A response to Simon During.” Australian Humanities Review 58.1: 63-69.

Lipton, B. (November 2014),"Cinderella, HerStory: An Alternate Pedagogical Approach to Aboriginal Women’s History ." Creative Approaches to Research 7(2).

2018 ANU Gender Institute Funding for distinguished scholar visit to ANU

2015 HERDSA Taylor & Francis Best Paper by a New Researcher Award

2014 YWCA Canberra Scholarship to attend the She Leads Conference in Canberra, 13 May 2014.

Member of the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association.