The Dornwell Framework

In 2015, the University launched the Dornwell Framework, the University’s first gender equity strategy for staff.

°Õ³ó±ðÌýDornwell Framework is organised around three areas of focus as follows:

  • strengthening leadership capability and accountability
  • building an empowered workforce
  • growing and strengthening the talent pipeline.
Dornwell framework

About Edith Dornwell

Edith Dornwell, in 1885, became the University of Adelaide's first female graduate - and one of the first in the world - and the University's first science graduate.

A truly remarkable pioneer, Edith Dornwell was not only ahead of her male peers in achieving this milestone, but she gained her degree with high honours, the culmination of a distinguished academic record.