Elspeth Probyn is the Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. She lectures and publishes in fields including cultural studies, media studies and sociology, with a particular focus on food, sexuality and the body. She also writes a fortnightly column in the Higher Education Supplement section of national newspaper The Australian. She has previously taught in Canada and the USA, and is of Welsh and Canadian background. In a recent newspaper article she lamented the lack of funding for social scientists to study China. Her attempt to jump on the 'China bandwagon' and secure scarce research funds in order to branch out into a new area of study is a perfect example of tenured baby boomer academics attempting to dominate resources within the university. Teaching students from China is not qualification enough to secure funding to conduct research in a country whose language you do not speak and about which you know little.
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