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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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