Beth Colicutt
Beth Coldicutt taught in the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, University of Melbourne 1939-1979.
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Miriel Witt
Edith Miriel Witt was the first female academic member of staff at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1943.
Belinda Probert
Belinda Probert’s research and writing are focused on the changing nature of work and employment and new patterns of advantage and disadvantage, particularly the way these changes have interacted with households and the domestic division of labour.
Audrey Cahn
In 1929 she completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) at the University of Melbourne, returning in 1937 to undertake a Diploma in Dietetics. Cahn returned to the university yet again, in 1947, when she commenced a 21 year career lecturing in dietetics.
Dr Patricia Edgar
Dr Patricia Edgar has published many significant and influential works, often challenging the complacency surrounding the impact of television on Australian society. Her pioneering work in the field of children’s responses to television laid the groundwork for much of her success in producing quality television. Her career came to a turning point in 1981 when she was appointed Task Force Director, responsible for setting up the Australian Children’s Television Foundation based in Victoria.
Barbara Fawkes
Barbara Fawkes trained as a nurse and midwife at the Middlesex Hospital School of Nursing, England, 1934-1938. She continued her nursing career into the post-World War II era.
Rachel Burrows
20th century Irish actress, broadcaster and teacher
Jennie Kidd Trout
Canada’s first licensed female doctor and promoter of women’s medical education
Halina Teresa Szunejko
Polish-Australian community activist
Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir
1800s Icelandic-Canadian author and teacher