Griffith University social psychologist Dr Megan Oaten is about to embark on an Antarctic adventure of a lifetime, one she hopes will inspire other women to become leaders in science research.
Dr Megan Oaten at the Natural History Museum, UK.
Selected to take part in Homeward Bound, an all-female research expedition to Antarctica, Dr Oaten will join 79 women on the 12-month leadership program.
Dr Oaten is passionate about helping young women and showing them that anything is possible.
A high school dropout from NSW, Dr Oaten started her working life as a hairdresser. At the age of 27, she decided to head to Macquarie University to study Psychology and had no idea if she would succeed.
“It was a very nerve-racking thing to do,’’ she recalls. But she persevered and graduated with a PhD in Social Psychology
Now she works in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith’s Gold Coast campus where she conducts research on
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