Episodes

  • Speaking Change with Professor Alison Booth

    Speaking Change with Professor Alison Booth
    Jan 10 2024
    In this episode of Speaking of Change, Dr Kate Hadwen interviews one of Australia's leading academics and former Pymble student Professor Alison Booth, whose research discovered that single-sex classes lead to better results for female university students compared to those from co-educational schools.
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    35 mins
  • Speaking of Change with Dr. My Tran

    Speaking of Change with Dr. My Tran
    Jan 10 2024
    In this episode of Speaking of Change, Dr Kate Hadwen interviews Dr My Tran, Research Fellow at the National Centre for Health Workforce Studies at the Australian National University, about her research which found that girls attending Australian single-sex schools are more likely than girls attending co-educational schools are more likely to study traditionally male-dominated STEM subjects at school and at university.
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    39 mins
  • Speaking of Change with Donna Cross

    Speaking of Change with Donna Cross
    Jan 10 2024
    In this episode of Speaking of Change, Dr Kate Hadwen speaks to Emeritus Professor Donna Cross OAM, an internationally renowned academic and educator recently appointed as Chief Behaviour Advisor NSW. Donna is a leader in the field of children’s and adolescents’ mental health, wellbeing and behaviour and shares her and how she was inspired to change the world for children everywhere.
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    48 mins
  • Speaking of Change with Susan Mendez

    Speaking of Change with Susan Mendez
    Jan 10 2024
    In this episode of Speaking of Change, Dr Kate Hadwen interviews Dr. Susan Mendez, Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. Dr Mendez’s research on patterns of study between Australian girls in single-sex schools and co-educational schools showed that girls in single-sex schools are more likely to study physics, advanced mathematics and chemistry as school students and at university.
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    42 mins
  • Speaking of Change with Madonna King

    Speaking of Change with Madonna King
    Jan 10 2024
    In this episode of Speaking of Change, Dr Kate Hadwen speaks to award- winning journalist and best-selling parenting author, Madonna King, about parenting, politics, anti-bullying, education and the importance of experiencing failure in shaping teenage girls into remarkable young women.
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    42 mins
  • Speaking Of Change with Melanie Kurzydlo

    Speaking Of Change with Melanie Kurzydlo
    Mar 16 2023
    In this episode, Dr Hadwen speaks to Pymble alumna Melanie Kurzydio - senior executive in the property and construction industry, thought leader, board director and diversity and inclusion champion. A winner of the 2019 NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) Crystal Vision Award for the advancement of women, Melanie speaks to Dr Kate Hadwen about the power of visualising your own success and understanding your individual value in traditionally male-dominated industries.
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    44 mins
  • Speaking of Change with Chloe Dalton OAM

    Speaking of Change with Chloe Dalton OAM
    Mar 8 2023
    Dr Hadwen speaks to Pymble alumna Chloe Dalton OAM - Olympic gold medallist, one of Australia’s few triple sport elite athletes, physiotherapist and founder of the Female Athlete Project – about her career, women in sport and how it is now time to take bigger steps to support our female athletes.
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    51 mins
  • Speaking of Change

    Speaking of Change
    Mar 4 2022
    Episode 1. Host Melissa Doyle speaks to Pymble Ladies’ College Principal Dr Kate Hadwen about empowering the women of the future, and the steps we can take today to help Break the Bias – the theme of International Women’s Day 2022.
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    45 mins