Kerryn Baker
Qualifications
BA (Hons) VUW, PhD ANU
Dr Kerryn Baker is a Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. She has a BA(Hons) in International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD in Political Science from the ANU. She has research experience in the French Pacific, Papua New Guinea (including Bougainville), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. She had published in leading journals including Pacific Affairs, Government and Opposition, Australian Journal of Political Science, Representation, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies and Political Science on issues of political participation, electoral reform and women’s political representation. Her book Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands was published by University of Hawaii Press in 2019 and she is the co-editor (with Marian Sawer) of Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge (Palgrave, 2019).
Research interests
Elections and Electoral Reform; Women’s Political Representation; Politics in the Pacific Islands Region
Recording now online: The prolonged and unprecedented 2021 Samoan Elections
On 20 May 2021, DPA hosted a webinar on the prolonged and unprecedented 2021 Samoan elections.
Bougainville & Papua New Guinea on the Eve of the Referendum
On 10 October 2019, the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs hosted a symposium entitled, Bougainville & Papua New Guinea on the Eve of the Referendum.
Panel on Women’s Political Participation in the Pacific
On International Women’s Day 2019 a large audience, including a contingent of current male and female Australia Awards scholars, attended a special panel seminar on Pacific women’s political partic
Advancing models of parliamentary gender quotas in the Pacific
Kerryn Baker, a Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Programme, says while the Pacific has a long way to go, there are signs of p
PNG Women in Leadership Support Program
In January 2017, the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University commencde a five year PNG Women in Leadership Support Program (WLSP).
