Joan Tully
Joan Tully | |
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |
| Education | Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth |
| Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | agricultural science |
| Institutions | C.I.S.R. |
Joan Tully (née Hearman; 9 September 1907 – 11 June 1973) was an Australian agricultural scientist and academic. She was one of the first female lecturers in agricultural science in Australia.
Life
Tully was born in
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR).
Tully gave up her post with the CSIR in February 1945, having married the previous year. She was widowed later in 1945, and returned to work to help provide for her four step-children. For a short period, she was seconded to the federal
Fulbright Scholarship, which she used to study at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. She returned to Australia in 1953, and 1956 transferred to the CSIR's Melbourne station. In 1957, Tully was seconded to the Department of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, conducting research into farmers' decision making with Oscar Oeser and Fred Emery. She moved to the university's Department of Agriculture in 1959, where she completed a research project on farmers in Rochester, Victoria
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In 1961, Tully took up a position as a lecturer at the
behavioural science. Tully was promoted to reader in 1971, and the following year made a fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science. She died in Brisbane
in 1973, of a heart attack.
References
- Bruce, Crouch (2002). "Tully, Joan (1907–1973)". OCLC 70677943.
- Smith, Ailie (2003). "Tully, Joan (1907–1973)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
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