Professor Jane Long

Professor Jane Long was Director of the Centre for Women's Studies until 2004, and is now UWA's Pro-Vice Chancellor, Teaching and Learning.

As Director of the Centre for Women's Studies she taught on gender in historical and contemporary culture, and was closely involved in the development of the Centre's major and its innovative teaching and learning initiatives, including the CHLOE website (Community Hypertext Learning Online Environment).

Professor Long graduated with an MA and a PhD in late nineteenth-century British history, specialising in the history of gender relations. She taught British and European history at UWA and other institutions from 1986, and became the Teaching and Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Studies in 1995.

Jane Long was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in 1999. Her current research interests include the politics, history and futures of the gendered body; gender and poverty in nineteenth-century culture; contemporary feminist theory; cybercultures; and higher education policy and practice.