UOW-based Women’s Research Engineers Network to expand into ASEAN Countries

In 2021, WREN was successfully awarded funding by the Council on Australia-Latin America Relations to establish the network as a bilateral collaboration. Now with another round of successful funding awarded by the Australia-ASEAN Council, we will expand to the ASEAN region with new partners in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

“While there is an increasing understanding of gender equality, achieving a balanced workplace is not a problem to be solved by women alone. Instead, it requires the efforts of entire workplaces to strive together.”

Ms Grace Kennedy

WREN welcomes our eight new committee members as ASEAN Representatives:

• Assistant Prof. Dr Pathathai Nalumpoon, Chiang Mai University
• Ms Supara Grudpan, Chiang Mai University
• Dr Sutasinee Thovuttikul, Chiang Mai University
• Ts Dr Nishata Royan, University of Wollongong KDU, Malaysia
• Ms Juliana Fisaini, Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia
• Dr Yunita Idris, Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia
• Dr Vita Wonoputri, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
• Dr Soan T. M. Duong, Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam

The original article was published University of Wollongong’s Universe Magazine. Photo by Paul Jones.