Person

Barker, Joanna Mary (Jo) (1942 - )

Born
20 January 1942
New Zealand
Occupation
Occupational therapist and Educator

Summary

Jo Baker is known for a number of firsts in the field of Occupational Therapy, she was the first Australian President of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (1986 - 1990), the first person to receive a PhD in Occupational therapy in Australia and the first female member of the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital board.

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Chronology

1959 - 1960
Career position - Occupational Therapy Assistant at Napier Public Hospital, New Zealand
1963
Career position - Occupational Therapist at Wellington Public Hospital, New Zealand
1964 - 1965
Career position - Occupational Therapist at Lower Hutt Hospital, New Zealand
1966 - 1967
Career position - Occupational Therapist-in-charge at Whakatine Hospital, New Zealand
1969
Life event - Settled in Australia
1969 - 1971
Career position - Staff Occupational Therapist at Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia
1971 - 1972
Career position - Senior Occupational Therapist at Claremont Hospital Mental Health Services, Western Australia
1972 - 1975
Career position - Occupational Therapist-in-charge at Swanbourne/Graylands Hospital, Western Australia
1975 - 1979
Career position - Principal Occupational Therapist with Mental Health Services of Western Australia
1979 - 1993
Career position - Professor and Head of School of Occupational Therapy at Curtin University of Technology (formerly Head of School of Occupational Therapy at Western Australian Institute of Technology)
1988
Career position - Professorial Chair of Occupational Therapy at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
1991 - 1994
Career position - Director of International Programs in the Division of Health Sciences at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
1994
Career position - Dean (academic affairs) of the Division of Health Sciences at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
1995 - 1998
Career position - Dean of Programs at John Curtin International Institute, Western Australia
2000 -
Career position - Professor and Dean of the Scenario Planning and Research Unit at the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

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

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Resources

See also

  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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