Professor Gillian Dobbie1
1School of Computer Science, University of Auckland
Service is essential for a University to function well. Without the active participation of academic staff in governance and other activities, Universities cannot adapt to the changing needs of students, community and society as a whole. While we have seen important gains for women in academia over the past couple of decades, research shows that women still do significantly more internal service to the University and their Department/School.
In this presentation, I will investigate why women are doing more internal service, and introduce strategies that can be adopted by women and their colleagues to ensure a more equitable distribution of service roles.
Biography:
Gillian Dobbie is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Auckland. She has published more than 150 peer reviewed papers mainly in database systems and machine learning. She is co-Director of two internal centres at the University of Auckland: NAOInstitute (Natural, Artificial and Organisation Intelligence Institute) and the Centre of Machine Learning for Social Good. She has taught at Massey University, University of Melbourne, Victoria University of Wellington, National University of Singapore and the University of Auckland. Her service roles have been extensive. Her current roles include: Chair of the Marsden Funding Council, Chair of the Science Advisory Panel for Plant and Food Research, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chair for the Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association, a Director for the Precision Driven Health Research Partnership, advisor to the Te Manahua NZ Universities Women in Leadership Programme and General Chair of DASFAA 2023.