We are pleased to announce Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa as the recipient of our latest Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Research Fellowship, with the support of the Trawalla Foundation.
Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa is a Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her research is focused on gender and human rights, with a particular interest in strengthening accountability for women’s rights at the domestic level.
Dr Vijeyarasa’s research seeks to offer a tangible contribution by using the law for the eradication of gender inequality and responds to the fact that despite significant well-intended interventions in the pursuit of gender equality worldwide, progress has been slow and incremental.
"My research is anchored around the concept of gender-responsive legislation, the achievement of which I believe can realise staggering results for women in Australia and globally. With the help of data science, I have developed an online tool called the #GenderLegislativeIndex (GLI) which helps analyse laws according to their benefit to women.”