Doreen Rosenthal

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Doreen Rosenthal
MacRobertson Girls' High School
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
ThesisAn investigation of some factors influencing development of formal operational thinking (1975)
Academic work
InstitutionsLa Trobe University
University of Melbourne

Doreen Anne Rosenthal

FASSA (born 1938) is an Australian academic and adolescent sexual health and women's health researcher. As of 2020 she is Professor Emerita in the School of Population Health at La Trobe University and Honorary Professor in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne.[1]

Academic career

Born Doreen Anne Lapin in Melbourne, Victoria in 1938, Rosenthal matriculated from MacRobertson Girls' High School in 1955.[2] Married and with three young children, Rosenthal graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1972 with a BA, majoring in psychology.[2] Continuing at that university, she then completed a PhD in 1975 with her thesis titled An investigation of some factors influencing development of formal operational thinking.[3]

Her research has included studies of homeless young people,[4] their drug use, why they leave home[5][6] and their HIV risk.[7] Another focus of her research has been women's sexual health.[8][9][10] She has also studied ethical questions in research[11][12][13] and collaborated on projects in Botswana,[14] Indonesia[15] and Vietnam.[16]

Honours and recognition

Rosenthal was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1998.[17] She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2003 Australia Day Honours for "outstanding service nationally and internationally to understanding of and research into adolescent health, particularly in the fields of sexual health and HIV/AIDS".[18] In 2007 she was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.[19]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "Prof Doreen A. Rosenthal". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Rosenthal, Doreen Anne". The Australian Women's Register. Archived from the original on 15 April 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  3. ^ Rosenthal, Doreen Anne (1975), An investigation of some factors influencing development of formal operational thinking
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  17. ^ "Academy Fellow: Emerita Professor Doreen Rosenthal AO, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Professor Doreen Anne Rosenthal". It's An Honour. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  19. ^ "10TH ANNIVERSARY VICTORIAN HONOUR ROLL OF WOMEN" (PDF). Her Place Women's Museum of Australia. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

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