Dorothea BowyerDorothea Bowyer is a lecturer at Western Sydney University (WSU) School of Business with a research focus on (a) the air transport industry and stakeholder accountability, (b) gender equity in higher education and (c) graduate employability. The scop of her industry related research focuses on the air transport industry and infrastructure asset management. In 2019 she was awarded the Western Sydney University (WSU) School of Business Priority Research Initiative grant to assist with infrastructure asset management and reporting in preparation for Western Sydney airport development. The dissertation topic of her PhD on airport stakeholders (completion 2009) and the development of a stakeholder performance assessment model (SAPAM) to assess the Sydney Airport Privatisation received recognition by the American Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Foundation for Applied Research (FAR) and she received external recognition as Early Career Researcher (post doc). It ignited her passion for expanding her research to regional aviation and public sector infrastructure reporting. Dorothea has been involved in multiple Gender Equity Funded projects and extended her work to focus on investigating gender equity policies for student-parents in Australia and the availability and delivery of innovative flexible childcare minding options in the higher education sector to reflect the needs of working parents in a post-Covid environment. She is also involved in work-integrated learning initiatives in her School and has implemented project-based and research-based learning and collaborative online international learning as part of innovative student-centric approachesto student engagement. Dorothea has held guest lectureships in Europe and is the European Academic Lead in her School. She has been the recipient of several grants, including the Endeavour Leadership Program and the New Colombo Plan. Read More Read Less