Blackwood, Margaret (1909 - 1986)

Summary

Dame Margaret Blackwood was Lecturer in Botany after World War II and was Dean of Women at the Mildura Branch of the University of Melbourne. She was at Cambridge 1948-1950 before returning to Melbourne where she was a Senior Lecturer until her retirement in 1975.

Details

Chronology

1939 - 1941

Career position - Caroline Kay Research Scholar in Plant Cytology and Genetics

1941 - 1946

Career position - Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF), rising to Wing Officer

1946 - 1948

Career position - Lecturer in Botany and Dean of Women at the Mildura Branch of the University of Melbourne

1948 - 1950

Career position - Newnham College at Cambridge

1951 - 1975

Career position - Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne

1957 - 1958

Career position - Australian and New Zealand Chairman of Soroptimist International Association

1964

Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

1975

Life event - Retired

1975 - 1983

Career position - Member of the University Council

1981

Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

1981 - 1983

Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne

1983

Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Margaret Blackwood - Records, 1946 - 1984; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• Carey, Jane, Women and Science at the University of Melbourne: Reflections on the Career of Dame Margaret Blackwood (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, History of the University Project, 1996), 24 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Carey, Jane, 'Blackwood, Dame Margaret (1909-1986), Botanist and Geneticist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 110-111. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blackwood-dame-margaret-12218. Details
• Falk, Barbara, 'Margaret Blackwood (1909-1986) botanist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details

Edited Books

• Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Carey, Jane, 'Margaret Blackwood (1909-1986)', Australasian Science, 20 (3) (1999), 46. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536632. Details
• 'Blackwood, Margaret (1909-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756060. Details
• 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1983', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Blackwood, Margaret (1909-1986), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0244b.htm. Details

Theses

• Carey, Jane, 'Barrier Unknown? Margaret Blackwood's Life in Science', BAHons thesis, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1995. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details

See also

• Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
• McCann, D. A.; and Batterham, P., 'Australian Genetics: a Brief History', Genetica, 90 (2-3) (1993), 81-114. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01435033. Details