PUBLICATIONS
This section lists publications supported or based on evidence collected by the Rhodes Project.
Book Chapters
Kathryn Lee Blackmon and Susan Rudy. 2018. “And you think you have it all mapped out”: Women Rhodes Scholars’ Work-Life Identity Narratives.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 1, 2013.
Rudy, Susan. 2014. Women who invite collaboration: Caroline Bergvall, Erín Moure et al. In Generations: Canadian Women's Writing / Générations: écritures des femmes du Canada, edited by M. Carrière and P. Demers (University of Alberta Press, pp. 21-38).
Guest Columns and External Blogs
Ann Olivarius. 2022. “Taking Down the ‘No Girls Allowed’ Signs in Big Law,” Bloomberg Law, 16 June 2022.
Ann Olivarius. 2020. “Rhodes must fall, but who should stand in his place?” The Financial Times, 15 June 2020.
Rudy, Susan. 2016. Can we celebrate all who identify as women on International Women's Day? The New Statesman. [8 March 2016]
Rudy, Susan. 2016. What does Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign tell us about gender equality today? The New Statesman. [16 February 2016]
Rudy, Susan. 2014. The Rhodes Project: Celebrating many versions of what women can be. Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog. [25 November 2014]
Presentations
Rhodes House, Oxford University. In 2017, Ann Olivarius presented “What Rhodes Women Want,” a summary of the analyses and findings of The Rhodes Project at a programme marking the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to the Rhodes Scholarship, “Forty Years of Rhodes Women.”
LGBTs in the Workplace Symposium, Halifax. Kate Blackmon and Susan Rudy presented "Work-life balance: including lesbian perspectives" in June 2015. The paper compared and contrasted the work-life identity narratives of lesbian and heterosexual women Rhodes Scholars.
Rhodes House, Oxford. During an informal brown bag lunch on 23 January 2015, Kate Blackmon and Susan Rudy met with the Rhodes Trust Warden and more than thirty Rhodes Scholars to share the preliminary findings of the Rhodes Project based on analyses of interviews, focus groups, and surveys collected from the first cohort of women elected (1977-1982).
European Group for Organisation Studies 2014. At the 2014 meeting in Rotterdam in July 2014, Kate Blackmon and Susan Rudy presented a paper, "Personal versus professional identities in the careers of Women Rhodes Scholars, 1977-1982."
Merton College Fellows, Oxford. In October 2013, Kate Blackmon delivered a presentation entitled “Leading Women: Women Rhodes Scholars and the (Hypothesised) Gender Gap in Leadership,” Merton College, Oxford.
Academy of Management. In August 2013, Kate Blackmon and Susan Rudy delivered a paper entitled “'And you think you have it all mapped out': Women Rhodes Scholars' Work-Life Identity Narratives" at the 2013 Academy of Management annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
University of Nottingham. In September 2012, Susan Rudy delivered a paper entitled "A Board Room of One's Own? Women Rhodes Scholars and Abundance" at the conference “Feminism in Academia: An Age of Austerity?” organized by the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) and the Contemporary Women's Writing Association.
Executive Briefings
Our executive briefings present researchers' findings in a concise and engaging format that will be of interest to general readers as well as to decision makers in government, business, and education. The working papers are more scholarly in orientation.
