Person
Beazley, Lynda Dent (Lyn) (1944 - )
AO FAA FTSE
- 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.
Details
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 at the 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 - Sir Walter Murdoch Distinguished Professor of Science, Murdoch University
- 2014 -
- Career position - Chair, Advisory Board, ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function
- 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)
Related entries
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
- 'Lyn Beazley - Citation at year of election, 2019', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/lyn-beazley. Details
- '2015 WA Australian of the Year', Australian of the Year Awards, National Australia Day Council, https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/professor-lyn-beazley-ao. Details
- 'Beazley, Lynda Dent (19440703-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476471. Details
See also
Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn
Created: 11 February 2003, Last modified: 15 June 2022