Person

Beazley, Lynda Dent (Lyn) (1944 - )

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Born
3 July 1944
Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom
Occupation
Educator

Summary

Lyn Beazley is a neuroscientist widely recognised for her research on vision and its recovery from injury. Her work with John Newnham led to changes in clinical practice in the administration of corticosteroids to women at risk of pre-term delivery. In 1994 she became Professor of Zoology at the University of Western Australia. From 2006 to 2013 Beazley was Chief Scientist of Western Australia, during which time she was influential in securing the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKS-low) for Western Australia. She has positions concerned with the management of a number of scientific organisations including the Royal Perth Hospital Research Foundation, the Western Australian Museum, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network and the Ear Sciences Institute of Australia. In addition she has been Patron of the Western Australian Naturalists Club and Vice-Patron of the Royal Society of Western Australia.

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Chronology

1976
Life event - Settled in Australia
1976 - 1994
Career position
1983 - 1993
Career position - Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1985 - 2000
Career position - Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Women's and Infants' Research Committee
1988 - 1993
Career position - Principal Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
1992 - 1998
Career position - Member of the Medical Research Council of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1992 - 1998
Career position - Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Women's and Infants' Research Foundation
1994 - 2014
Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Western Australia
1995 -
Career position - Chief Investigator for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grant
1995 - 1997
Career position - Member, Australian Science and Technology Council
1996 - 1999
Career position - Member of the Lotteries Commission Medical Advisory Committee
1997 - ?
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Biology
1998 - 2006
Career position - Trustee of the Western Australia Museum Board
1999 - 2001
Career position - Member of the Transport Infrastructure Advisory Group
1999 - 2006
Career position - Leader, Neurotrauma Research Program, Western Australia
2002 - 2008
Career position - Member, Australian Spinal Research Trust, SpinalCure Australia
2003 - 2005
Career position - Deputy Chair, Gene and Related Therapies Advisory Panel, National Health and Medical Research Council
2004 - 2006
Career position - Member, Advisory Panel, College of Experts, Australian Research Council
2005 - 2006
Career position - Chair, Gene and Related Therapies Advisory Panel, National Health and Medical Research Council
2006 -
Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Experimental brain research
2006 - 2008
Career position - Chairman, Western Australia Premier's Science and Innovation Council
2006 - 2013
Career position - Chief Scientist, Government of Western Australia
2007 -
Career position - Member, Western Australia Technical and Industry Advisory Council
2009
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - for service to medical science, particularly in the field of brain-related research both nationally and internationally, and as a contributor to the development of science policy in Western Australia
2009
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
2013
Award - Inducted into the Western Australian Science Hall of Fame
2014 -
Career position - Chair, Advisory Board, ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function
2014 -
Career position - Sir Walter Murdoch Distinguished Professor of Science, Murdoch University
2015 -
Award - Honorary Bragg Fellow, Royal Institution of Australia
2015
Award - Western Australia, Australian of the Year
2018
Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, Australian National University
2019
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2024
Award - President's Award, Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

  • Interview with Lynda Beazley, Professor of Zoology, University of Western Australia (sound recording), interviewer: Ragbir Bhathal, 20 February 1998, TRC 3678; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. 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

Resources

See also

  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
  • Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details

Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn

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