Person

Rickards, Winston Selby (1920 - 2007)

Born: 13 November 1920
Australia
Died: 11 December 2007
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Psychiatrist

Summary

Winston Rickards was an early pioneer of the field of child psychiatry in Victoria. In 1955 he was made founding director of the Royal Children's Hospital's department of child psychiatry and behavioural sciences and he remained in this position until 1983. While in this role he developed the department into one of international acclaim, and the training program offered by his department remained the only course in its field until the early 1980s.

Details

Rickards also lectured at Melbourne University in medicine and other fields between the 1950s and 1980s.

Chronology

1950: Education - Doctor of Medicine, University of Melbourne
1955 - 1983: Career position - Founding Director of the Department of Child Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Royal Children's Hospital

Related Corporate Bodies

Royal Children's Hospital (1953 - )
Director of the Department of Child Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences

Date: 1955 - 1983

Published resources

Resources

'Rickards, Winston Selby (19201113-20071211)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514395. Details

Rebecca Rigby

Created: 7 September 2012, Last modified: 11 April 2016

EOAS ID: biogs/P005260b.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 the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
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/P005260b.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