Blair Williams

• Lecturer in Australian Politics, UNSW Sydney

Dr Blair Williams is an award-winning academic and is currently a Lecturer in Australian Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Australian Politics at Monash University (2022-6) and a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership (GIWL) at the Australian National University (2020-2).

As a gender politics scholar, her most recently published research can be found in Men and Masculinities, the Australian Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Politics and Gender and Women's Studies in Communications, among others. Dr Williams' current research agenda focuses on the gendered media coverage of women in politics, gender and sexuality in Australian politics, political leadership masculinities and the politics of COVID-19.

Dr Williams is highly visible in the media, serving as a regular contributor to The Canberra Times and The Conversation, and as a Federal Political Correspondent for ABC North and West SA. She is also a frequent contributor to national and international radio, TV, newspapers and podcasts, including ABC's 7.30, Radio National, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, BBC, Al Jazeera and Le Monde. In 2021, she was awarded the ANU Vice Chancellor's Awards for Impact and Engagement.

• 2026–present Lecturer, UNSW Canberra
• 2022–2026 Lecturer, Monash University
• 2020–2022 Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, ANU

• 2020 The Australian National University, PhD
• 2014 University of Adelaide, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

• 2021 Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: Introduction to this Special Issue, Australasian Parliamentary Review
• 2021 Where are all the Great Women politicians? A gendered analysis of Australian political biographies, Australian Journal of Biography and History
• 2021 Still Lacking Her Rights at Work: The Treatment of Women Politicians in the Australian Parliament and Print News Media, Australasian Parliamentary Review
• 2020 Gender and Political Leadership in a Time of COVID, Politics & Gender
• 2020 A Tale of Two Women: A comparative media analysis of UK Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, Parliamentary Affairs
• 2020 It's a Man's World at the Top: Gendered media representations of Julia Gillard and Helen Clark, Feminist Media Studies
• 2017 A Gendered Media Analysis of the Prime Ministerial Ascension of Gillard and Turnbull: He's“taken back the reins” and she's“a backstabbing” murderer, Australian Journal of Political Science

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