Rate My Professor Fiona McGaughey

Fiona McGaughey is Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic Advancement & Diversity in the Office of the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western Australia. Previously, she served as Associate Professor at the UWA Law School, holding leadership roles including Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching), Director of Higher Degrees by Coursework, and Director of the Law and Society Major. She established UWA's interdisciplinary Modern Slavery Research Cluster in 2017. McGaughey graduated from Queen's University of Belfast with a Bachelor of Laws with French (honours), earned a Master of Human Rights from Curtin University, and obtained her PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2017 on the role of non-governmental organisations in monitoring international human rights law. Earlier in her career, she worked as a management consultant and project manager with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Western Australia and Accenture in Ireland. She held diversity, equity, and inclusion policy positions in Ireland and Australia, including Research & Policy Officer at the National Consultative Committee on Racism & Interculturalism, Director of Equal Measures consultancy, Senior Policy Officer at National Disability Services WA, Project Officer at the Equal Opportunity Commission WA, and Irish National Focal Point for the European Racism & Xenophobia Network and European Fundamental Rights Agency (2005-2008). She also served as sessional lecturer at Curtin University's Centre for Human Rights Education. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Senior Fellow of the UWA Public Policy Institute, she is a member of UWA's Academic Board and Academic Council.