Politics · United Kingdom · 3 hrs ago
Jacinda Ardern takes teaching and mentoring role at University of Sydney
Jacinda Ardern has joined the University of Sydney in Australia in a teaching and mentoring role.
She will be based in the university’s School of Public Health and focus on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.
The role is not full-time; Ardern will give guest lectures and masterclasses and mentor students.
She was New Zealand’s prime minister for more than five years and left office in January 2023.
Her work will also explore global health challenges involving equity and wellbeing, areas the university says are part of her focus.
Ardern says she wants to help develop leadership that can address global challenges, and she is due to begin the role this month.
Jacinda Ardern has taken a teaching and mentoring role at the University of Sydney.
She will be based in the university’s School of Public Health and begin this month.
Her work will focus on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.
She will give guest lectures and masterclasses and mentor students, but the role is not full-time.
The university said her work will also explore ways to address global health challenges, with a focus on equity, inclusion and wellbeing.
- Who
- Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand.
- What
- She has taken a role as a professor of practice, teaching and mentoring at the University of Sydney.
- When
- She begins this month. The sources do not state the exact date.
- Where
- The University of Sydney’s School of Public Health in Australia.
- Why
- Her work will focus on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust, as well as approaches to global health challenges.
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Aged 37, Ardern became the world’s youngest-serving female leader.
Ardern resigned as New Zealand prime minister and Labour Party leader.
Ardern and her family moved to Sydney.
Ardern said in an ABC Conversations interview that she believed people were seeking empathetic leadership.
Ardern’s appointment at the University of Sydney was announced; she was due to begin that month.
- Role
- Professor of practice
- Institution
- University of Sydney
- School
- School of Public Health
- Start
- October 2026
- Focus
- Empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust
- Format
- Guest lectures, masterclasses and mentoring; not a full-time teaching role
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What people are saying
I’ve found myself especially focused on the question of leadership since leaving office – and how we can better support and encourage the kind of leadership needed to tackle our many global challenges.
I'm looking forward to working alongside the brilliant students, faculty and wider University of Sydney community, as we share experiences, explore and develop ways to better serve our communities, and help solve the issues facing so many today.
Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other.
Her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other.