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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2006-03-28 human Helen Hamilton for ANMHP updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004686b.htm person Parker Judith Milburn AACR2 MacRea, Judith 26 June 1936 Place of Birth Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia Nurse Teacher Scholar Judith Parker undertook her basic nursing education through the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Associated Hospitals School of Nursing. Following three years as a staff nurse and two years as a nurse educator she left full-time nursing for a number of years to concentrate on raising four children and undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate study at Monash University, supplemented by part-time clinical work. As one of very few PhD prepared nurses working in higher education in nursing in Australia in the early 1980s, she was well positioned to play a leading role in the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to higher education. Subsequently she was extremely influential in the development of higher degrees in nursing and in the establishment of a research base for the discipline in Australia. Her contribution to scholarship and professional development in nursing is highly regarded internationally.

Professor Parker is one of the pre-eminent figures in Australian nursing education and scholarship. In her career as a nursing academic she has been at the helm of a series of major innovations. From the Head of Nursing at the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, to the Foundation Head and Professor of Nursing at La Trobe University, to the establishment of the School of Nursing at the University of Melbourne, Professor Parker has been a trailblazer, highly regarded and immensely influential in the establishment and development of the discipline of nursing in Australia.

She is esteemed internationally for her work in promoting international nursing, for the quality of her publications and for the role she has played as Founding Editor of the prestigious scholarly journal Nursing Inquiry. She has played a major role locally and internationally on key committees and boards aimed at promoting nursing research and scholarship. She was included in the Victorian Honour Roll for Women 2001 and appointed a member of the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Medicine and appointed Professor Emeritus of the University of Melbourne.

1954 1957 Student nurse at Royal Melbourne and Associated Hospitals School of Nursing 1957 1960 Staff Nurse, Royal Melbourne Hospital 1961 1962 Nurse Educator, Kingston Centre 1963 1971 Clinical nursing, part-time 1971 1974 Charge Nurse, part-time; rehabilitation, long-term care, diabetic unit, Caulfield Hospital 1974 1974 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Major in Sociology, Monash University 1975 1978 Tutor part-time, Sociology Department, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University 1975 1979 Recipient Commonwealth Post-Graduate Research Award 1979 1982 Lecturer, School of Nursing, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences 1981 1981 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Sociology of Health and Illness, Monash University (thesis titled "Cancer Passage: Continuity and Discontinuity in Terminal Illness") 1982 1983 Senior Lecturer, Co-ordinator of Bachelor of Applied Science, (Advanced Nursing) Course, School of Nursing, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences 1984 1987 Head, School of Nursing, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences 1988 1989 Chairperson and Director of Studies, Department of Nursing, La Trobe University 1989 1996 Foundation Professor, School of Nursing, La Trobe University 1995 2005 Editor-in-Chief, Nursing Inquiry 1996 2004 Foundation Professor and Head, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Melbourne 2001 2001 Cited on the Victorian Honour Roll for Women 2002 2002 Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia 2003 2004 Deputy President, Nurses Board of Victoria 2004 2005 Visiting Professor, Department of Nursing Studie, University of Hong Kong 2004 2005 Special Professor, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham 2005 Honorary Professor, Department of Nursing Studie, University of Hong Kong 2005 2005 Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne 2005 2005 Doctor of Medicine, (Honorary), University of Melbourne Parker, J M (1936-)

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 'Parker, Judith Milburn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Parker, Judith Milburn Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Judith Parker - Full Entry Details Australian Nursing History Project Judith Parker - Full Entry Details Includes: Research Grants 1995-2005; Overseas Study Tours, Teaching and Consultancies 1995-2005; Speaker International & Overseas Conferences and Seminars; Speaker National and Interstate Conferences & Seminars; Speaker local Conferences, Seminars, Workshops; and, Publications since 1995. Judith Parker Judith Parker Image courtesy Judith Parker.

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