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<u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,174,170)">with International Women’s Development Agency
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Research Leader: Sara Niner (Anthropology-SoSS)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(34,30,31)">The project will investigate the cultural, social and historical factors affecting public decision-making in voting and the perceptions of candidates legitimacy and capacity to
 lead so understanding can be built to foster women’s leadership in the public eye. Women’s Action for Voice and Empowerment (WAVE) is a ground-breaking civil and political participation program that brings together and supports women, organisations and movements
 in Asia and the Pacific region to increase the representation of women in diverse leadership positions. This project will inform the
</span><u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,174,170)">International Women’s Development Agency
</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(34,30,31)">WAVE program to effectively strengthen Timorese women’s meaningful political participation, leadership and advocacy for the issues that are important to them.</span></p>
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Please join us at 11am Wednesday 22 May  <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&q=N402%20Meeting%20Room%2C%2020%20Chancellor%27s%20Walk%2C%20Monash%20University%2C%20Clayton%20campus&source=calendar" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="m_-4739821919776584489gmail-AP8Kec" target="_blank" style="color:inherit; outline:none; font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; letter-spacing:0.2px; white-space:nowrap">N402
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<p style="line-height:normal; margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#0b5394"><font size="2"><strong>Dr.</strong><strong> Sara Niner</strong> Course Director Masters of International Development Practice<br>
<strong>M</strong><strong>onash University </strong>|<span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"> School of Social Sciences  </span></font></font><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br>
<font size="2" color="#0b5394"><strong></strong></font></span><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#0b5394"><strong></strong></font><font size="2" color="#0b5394"><strong></strong>Clayton Campus<font face="Arial"><strong>
</strong>|</font><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"> </span>Menzies Building 4th Floor, East Wing, Rm E470 <br>
</font></span><font style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif; font-size:12.8px" color="#0b5394"><font size="2"><b>W</b>eb:
</font></font><font style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif" size="2" color="#0b5394"><a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/" target="_blank" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif; font-size:12.8px">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/ </a><br>
</font><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif; font-size:12.8px"><font color="#0b5394"><a href="http://Orcid.org/0000-0003-2175-965X">Orcid.org/0000-0003-2175-965X</a>
</font></span><font style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif; font-size:12.8px" color="#073763">Scopus Author ID: 25655204800</font><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif; font-size:12.8px"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal; margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2" face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><strong><em>Latest Blog: </em></strong><strong>It’s time for women to lead in Timor-Leste</strong>.
<em>La Croix International </em> </font><a href="https://international.la-croix.com/news/it-s-time-for-women-to-lead-in-timor-leste/7603" target="_blank">View article here</a></font></p>
<p style="line-height:normal; margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0pt"><span><font color="#3d85c6"><span style="line-height:130%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"><em><font size="2" face="Arial"><strong>Latest Book:
</strong>W</font></em><span style="line-height:130%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"></span></span><em>omen and the politics of gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste<span style="background-color:white">,
</span></em>Women in Asia Series, Routledge. </font><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-the-Politics-of-Gender-in-Post-Conflict-Timor-Leste-Between/Niner/p/book/9781138999121" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9900">More info here</font></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal; margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" color="#000040"></font><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148); line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; font-size:9pt">Monash University's Australian campuses
 are proudly on Kulin land. We pays respect to the Kulin people, including elders past, present and emerging <span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT"; font-size:9pt">and acknowledge that claims to sovereignty were never ceded.</span><br>
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