Advancing Women in Sport

About Professor Emma Sherry   Emma Sherry is a Professor at Swinburne University, specialising in the field of Sport Development, and is Chair of the Department for Management and Marketing in the Swinburne Business School. Emma also sits on the board of Tennis Victoria , for which she held presidency from 2018-20, and now serves as Board Director.  Emma has completed a Bachelor of Arts at the Uni...

About Allison Dodd  Allison Dodd is a seasoned cricket admininistrator and is currently  President of the Strathmore Cricket Club . She has played her part in various roles over her time with the club, including Secretary, Committee Member, and Head of Membership. Allison also has over 15 years of senior management experience in various industry sectors, including health and aged care, vocational...

About Tamatha Harding  Tamatha Harding is Head of Tennis Delivery and Culture at Tennis Victoria, and is on the board of Women Sport Australia . She is also a Consultant in Strategy and Project Planning, with more than 20 years of experience in the sport industry to inform programming, development and strategic projects for sporting and non-sporting organisations.   In her time with Tennis Victori...

About Emily McKie Emily McKie is currently the Women’s Head Coach at the Monbulk Football Netball Club. She is also Project Officer for the Girls on the Move project— a project that serves to increase physical activity among culturally and linguistically diverse girls and young women in Melbourne’s south-east and she hosts The Coaches Diary podcast . Emily has a background in teaching Sport and Re...

About Shelley Ware: Shelley Ware is a media personality, professional speaker, educator and consultant. Shelley hosts her own Facebook show Ware2Now? and appears regularly on Facebook show Broad Radio . She is also a member of the Outer Sanctum podcast and writer for the Koori Mail.    Shelley is well known for her part in Marngrook, a ground-breaking football program, and as host of webshow Colou...

About Dr. Kate O’Halloran Kate is an award-winning journalist, media consultant, and academic, and is currently working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as Digital Sport Journalist. In 2019, Kate cofounded Siren, a women in sport collective calling for better coverage of women’s sport and raising the voice of women and marginalised identities in media.  Kate has completed a Bachelor of...

About Lisa Alexander AM Lisa Alexander AM is a former athlete and coach of Australian netball. She played for the Victorian State Netball team from and coached the Australian National netball team from 2011-20. Lisa has also seen gold and silver medal success at the Commonwealth Games and the Netball World Cup, and has seen multiple wins at the Constellation Cup and Quad Series. Lisa now works as...

Moving from awareness to action for gender equality in sport is easy to say, and as the latest statistic prove, harder to do When I started to research how wide the gender gap in sport was, I was very very surprised. I had laboured under the belief that sport was more equal and more inclusive than business. In fact, that theory was going to underpin my (now defunct) doctoral studies on gender equa...

Why Sport? My first observations about sport came a long time after I was first involved. Sport has featured consistently throughout my entire life, whether as a little person watching from the side-lines when my parents played or as a young person and adult being involved in various team and individual sports. As I became older, I moved my involvement in sport back to the side-line, however this...

Episode 1: The Advancing Women in Sport Podcast - Invisible Barriers Women in sport face many invisible barriers. My podcast will highlight some of those barriers and help sporting leaders take action to address them. I want all of us to know what in the world is going on for women in sport. Because achieving gender equality in sport will create a more prosperous, sustainable, and enjoyable sporti...

We know that storytelling is a powerful way to humanize the statistics, put a face to the challenges and opportunities that women in sport face. The need to tell the stories of women in sport and to create a clarion call to action to close the gender gaps in sport has never been stronger. Our first two Advancing Women in Sport research reports gathered statistics as well as publish our own qualita...