Person

Dawe, Kathleen Edith (1915 - 1999)

Born
28 March 1915
England
Died
2 April 1999
Occupation
Social worker

Summary

Kathleen Dawe began her working life as a secretary, later working as a typist in the Postmaster-General's Department. After World War Two she undertook the Diploma of Social Studies at the University of Melbourne, followed by a one year course at the Hospital Almoners Institute. Dawe worked as a social worker at the Red Cross for two years and at the Alfred Hospital for five years. She spent twenty-two years as head of the Medical Social Work Department at the Royal Children's Hospital. Dawe contributed greatly to the identification of child abuse.

Details

Chronology

c. 1921
Life event - Settled in 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

Newspaper Articles

  • Nicoll, Jean; Miller, Jane; Giljohann, Anne; and Crutch, Margaret and John, 'Obituary: Kathleen Edith Dawe, Social Worker', The Age (1999). Details

Resources

Ailie Smith

EOAS ID: biogs/P003414b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003414b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260