Dr Jill Cockburn
Jill Cockburn’s research interests include consultation skills training for health care professionals, quality use of medicines, quality care for people with cancer and chronic heart failure, and behavioural epidemiology.
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Isabel Clifton Cookson
Isabel Cookson was Research Fellow in Botany, University of Melbourne 1952-1959. She was world renowned for her research which included fossil plant studies.
Eileen Ramsay
Eileen Ramsay was an enthusiastic Australian plant collector who for 20 years from 1949 collected specimens in the Mallee in north-western Victoria.
Florence Martin
Australian physicist from the 1890s
Phyllis Nicol
Phyllis Nicol was a demonstrator in physics, University of Sydney 1927-1933, a tutor in physics at the Women’s College 1934-1945 and finally a lecturer in physics 1946-1964. She co-wrote the book “Physics: Fundamental Laws and Principles”.
Dr Elwyn Morey
Elwyn Morey was “probably the best-known child psychologist in Australia”.
Dr Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow
Australian psychologist Jacqueline Goodnow’s research covered areas such as the distribution of work responsibilities in the family, the origins and outcomes of beliefs about parents, and the intergenerational transmission of social values.
Dr Mary O’Brien
1900s Irish missionary sister and doctor in Africa
Ida O’Dwyer
Ida O’Dwyer served in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She served in Egypt and was in charge of the Nurses’ Hospital in London and was head sister of the No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station in France. From 1920 to her retirement in 1938 O’Dwyer was matron of the Caulfield Military Hospital.
Georgina McCready
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.