Helen Law, Ph.D.

Helen Law is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology. She completed her PhD in sociology at the Australian National University. In her dissertation, she adopts a life course perspective and draws on the theories of gender stratification and educational psychology to examine why engagement in advanced mathematics and related disciplines are strongly segregated by gender in Australia. Her doctoral research was supported by the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the Australian Government, the University Research Scholarship from the Australian National University and a PhD top-up scholarship provided by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.