Person
Beder, Sharon
- Occupation
- Civil engineer and Environmental scientist
Summary
Sharon Beder originally trained as a civil engineer in New Zealand. She held a variety of engineering positions in New Zealand and Australia before commencing a Masters of Science and Society degree at the University of New South Wales. This was followed by a PhD, during which she made discoveries about the contamination and sewerage pollution of Sydney's beaches. Beder passed the information to newspapers and also rewrote her thesis for publication, Toxic Fish and Sewer Surfing, Allen and Unwin, 1989.
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Chronology
- 1979
- Life event - Settled in Australia
- 1989
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of New South Wales
- c. 1989 - 1992
- Career position - Environmental Education Co-ordinator, University of Sydney
- 1992 -
- Career position - Professor of Science Technology and Society, University of Wollongong
- 2001
- Award - World Technology Award in Ethics
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
Articles
- 'Dr Sharon Beder', WISENET Journal, 24 (October) (1990), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/beder.htm. Details
Resources
- 'Beder, Sharon', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-553393. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 31 March 2003, Last modified: 28 April 2003