Lois Bryson Explained

Birth Date:1937 10, df=y
Alma Mater:University of Melbourne
Monash University
Known For:Sociologist

Lois Joyce Bryson (5 October 1937 – 7 January 2024) was an Australian sociologist. She was one of the founders of academic sociology in Australia.[1]

Education

Bryson completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1959 followed by a Diploma of Education in 1964, both at the University of Melbourne, before achieving her PhD in sociology at Monash University.[2] She was an early second-wave feminist in Australia.[3]

Career

In 1972, Bryson wrote An Australian Newtown (1972), Australia's first sociological study of a suburb with Faith Thompson and, with Ian Winter, Social Change, Suburban Lives (1999), a re-study of the same suburb thirty years on.

Bryson also authored studies regarding women in sport,[4] women's health[5] and the welfare state.[6] [7] She worked as a professor at the University of Adelaide.[8]

Her career in research was recognised by her election as a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1998, membership of the Australian Research Council's research training and careers committee, and the award of a Federation medal (2003).[9]

In retirement she was an emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle and an adjunct professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[10]

Death

Bryson died in January 2024.[11] She is survived by her two children and two grandchildren.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Lois Bryson . 2024-11-30 . ABC listen . en-AU.
  2. Web site: Lois Bryson - The Australian Sociological Association . 2024-11-30 . tasa.org.au . en.
  3. Web site: ALSWH – Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health . 2024-11-30 . alswh.org.au.
  4. Bryson . Lois . 1983-12-01 . Sport and the Oppression of Women . The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology . en . 19 . 3 . 413–426 . 10.1177/144078338301900303 . 0004-8690.
  5. Web site: Australia’s longest running study of women’s health . 2024-11-30 . shorthand.uq.edu.au.
  6. Bryson . Lois . Eastop . Len . 1980-12-01 . Poverty, Welfare and Hegemony, 1973 and 19781 . The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology . en . 16 . 3 . 61–71 . 10.1177/144078338001600307 . 0004-8690.
  7. Marston . Greg . McDonald . Catherine . Bryson . Lois . 2014 . The Australian welfare state: who benefits now? . en.
  8. Web site: 25 November 1997 . Community engagement, social justice: platforms for new Uni research and teaching . University of Adelaide.
  9. Web site: Melbourne . The University of . Bryson, Lois - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia . 2024-11-30 . www.womenaustralia.info . en-gb.
  10. Web site: Bryson, Lois - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia . 2024-11-30 . www.womenaustralia.info . The University of Melbourne . en-gb.
  11. Web site: Murphy . John . Bryson . Fran . Edwards . Anne . 2024-04-10 . ‘Chippy’ not a conventional academic, but an agent for change . 2024-11-30 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  12. Web site: Lois Bryson Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales Sydney Morning Herald . 2024-11-30 . tributes.smh.com.au.

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