The Research Centre for Women\x92s Studies was set up in 1983 in line with the recommendation of a report from the Executive Committee Working Party on Women in the University, 1981. The Centre, which remained under the directorship of Susan Magarey, had six broad purposes: \x91to initiate individual and group research projects by staff and students; to facilitate cross-disciplinary research; to supervise higher degrees on topics in the field of Women\x92s Studies; to organise seminars, conferences, and publications for the dissemination and critical discussion of research on women and of feminist theories; to attract outside grants from government and other agencies for research on policy and other social issues concerning women; and to offer its collective and diverse expertise to departments which wish to incorporate recent scholarship concerning women in their courses, and to assist students interested in undertaking honours or postgraduate research on women\x92.