Tanya Fitzgerald is Professor of Higher Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia. She has held leadership positions in universities in New Zealand, England, and Australia and Visiting Professor roles in Canada, Malaysia, and South Africa. Tanya’s research interests focus primarily on histories of women’s higher education, social change, and higher education policy and leadership. Current projects included an analysis of leadership in elite universities (funded by the ESRC) and a history of women academics. Tanya has an extensive publications record including 13 books and 100+ book chapters and journal articles and is regularly invited to deliver keynote addresses. She has co–edited three academic journals and currently serves on a number of international editorial boards. Tanya is internationally recognised as a leading interdisciplinary scholar in the history of education field. In 2020 she was made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, in 2021 elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 2025 appointed to the Australian Research Council College of Experts.