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
Book Sections
- Barker, J. M.; Stranks, D.R., 'Rennie, Edward Henry (1852-1927), scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 361-362. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110371b.htm. Details
Resources
- 'Barker, Joanna Mary (1942-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473592. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 10 February 2003, Last modified: 26 February 2019