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It examines whether living and working at a regional university with dispersed campuses presented particular challenges for women and whether it had an impact on their career progression. Twenty-one women supplied written responses to a list of questions provided by the researchers. The main finding was that women enjoyed working in teams and preferred flexibility, autonomy and positive teamwork environments. To address challenges identified in the study about working across dispersed campuses and the limitations of virtual communication, particularly in the current pandemic, the article investigates the feasibility of a blended approach to teamwork using the concept of a third space.  \nKeywords: gender, working in teams, career mobility, dispersed campuses, third space  \nIntroduction  \nThis article examines the experiences of academic and professional women working in teams across dispersed campuses at an Australian regional university. Staff with‘professional’, including administrative, roles are those not employed to undertake academic work. It uses a gendered lens to analyse the issues raised in the literature review about the challenges of working in teams and leadership and boundaryless careers, while exploring a third space framework in response to the issues raised in this research in which diverse groups could form democratic collaborative teams and meet in a blend of physical and virtual environments as a means of potentially resolving these challenges.  \nRegional universities make an important contribution to and are closely linked with regional economies and communities as well as national development (RUN, 2021). They attract and retain diverse cohorts – including first-infamily and regional and rural students and staff. As GorissHunter and Burke (2015, p. 112) note: ‘a regional university can act productively as a hybrid space that bridges the known (rural working-class experience) and the unknown  \nor unreachable option (metropolitan university) for some people, particularly … people like ourselves who come from rural working-class backgrounds’.  \nLiterature Review  \nThe literature review examines women working in teams including the strategy of intentional invisibility, career theory, the concept of a third space as a way of building collaborative workplaces, and the challenges ofthis approach.  \nWorking in teams  \nWorking in teams has become an integral industry strategy (Lau et al., 2014) especially in higher education (HE) amongst professional and academic staff (Burgess, 1994; Gast, Schildkamp, & van der Veen, 2018; Koeslag-Kreunen, M. & Van der Klink, M. et al., 2018; Posthuma & Said, 2012). This is particularly relevant to women in universities who have demonstrated preference for working collaboratively and are generally employed as professional staff or as lowerlevel academic staff (Cullinan, 2018; Francis & Stulz, 2020; Kuhn & Villeval, 2013). The term ‘team’ might focus on  \nvol. 63, no. 2, 2021 Teamwork and regional universities Anitra Goriss-Hunter & Kate White 11  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \ncollaborative teamwork; groups dependent on leadership authority and guidance; groups comprised of different members constructing diverse knowledge; and democratic collectives. Thus, a team could be defined as ‘a collection of individuals who are interdependent in their tasks, who share responsibility for outcomes, who see themselves and who are seen by others as an intact social entity embedded in one or more larger social systems [for example, a business unit ora corporation], and who","cbCaipFmmljtpK2H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipFmmljtpK2H","pdf",197134,11,"English","# Introduction\n# Literature Review\n## Working in teams","[{\"question\":\"What was the study’s main focus regarding women at an Australian regional university?\",\"answer\":\"The study explored the benefits and challenges women experienced when working at a regional university with dispersed campuses in early 2020, and how this affected career progression.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the women participants most prefer about teamwork?\",\"answer\":\"Participants reported enjoying teamwork and preferring flexibility, autonomy, and positive teamwork environments.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article propose addressing challenges related to dispersed campuses and virtual communication?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates the feasibility of a blended approach to teamwork using the concept of a third space.\"}]","Teamwork and regional universities - The benefits for women of a third space | PDF",1792080415,28]