Director of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research Heather Nancarrow will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Women in Research Conference.

Central Queensland University will host this year’s Women in Research Conference at the Gladstone campus on November 24 and 25.

Drawing on her 25 years of experience in the domestic violence prevention field, Ms Nancarrow will discuss the role and limitations of feminist ideology and research in responding to domestic and family violence.

In particular she will discuss how different feminist perspectives have shaped responses to domestic and family violence, the relevance of this to diverse groups of women, and the strategies used by the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research to accommodate the diverse contexts for women in Queensland affected by domestic and family violence.

The Women in Research Conference is held every two years to assist and support women researchers.

The conference is open to researchers, postgraduate students, honours students, teaching and learning facilitators, academics and industry researchers. The theme of the conference is 'Women Doing Research'.

The Conference will provide the stage for five prominent keynote speakers and over 40 research papers will be presented in concurrent sessions.

Other keynote speakers include: Christine Low - President of the National Council of Women of New Zealand; Dr Shirley Gregor - Professor of Information Systems, Head of School - Business and Information Management, Australian National University; Anna McPhee - Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, Australia; and Dr Pam McGrath - Research Fellow, School of Nursing & Health Studies, CQU.

For more information regarding the conference or to register visit http://www.cqu.edu.au/wir and follow the links or contact Jeni Richardson on (07) 4923 2145 or the conference convenor Jan Lewis on 4970 7392 or m.lewis@cqu.edu.au .