Lyn Beazley | |
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2nd Chief Scientist of Western Australia | |
Preceded by | Bruce Edward Hobbs |
Succeeded by | Peter Klinken |
Personal details | |
Born | Lynda Dent Beazley 3 July 1944 Gravesend,UK |
Nationality | English |
Education | University of Oxford |
Profession | Neuroscientist |
Lynda Dent Beazley (born 1944) is a neuroscientist and educator based in Perth,Western Australia. She is currently an Honorary Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia, [1] and the Sir Walter Murdoch Distinguished Professor of Science at Murdoch University. [2] Among other awards,she has been named an Officer of the Order of Australia for her contributions to medical science [3] a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering [4] and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. [5]
Beazley studied zoology at the University of Oxford before completing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the development of vision and its recovery after injury.[ citation needed ]
She set up her research group as a National Health and Medical Research Council research fellow at the University of Western Australia in 1976,which she held until 1994 when she was appointed professor. Research stemming from a collaboration with Professor John Newnham led to changes in clinical practice around administration of corticosteroids to women at risk of pre-term delivery with prematurely mature fetal lungs,improving respiratory function in pre-term infants. [6]
Beazley was Western Australia's Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2013,advising the State Government on science,innovation,and technology. [7] Her work included setting up a nationwide hotline for laboratory technicians in schools,working for healthier waterways across the state by establishing Dolphin Watch, [8] and she was successful in securing Western Australia as the host of the low frequency part of the telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA-low) at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. [9] She was a Mission Leader for the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA) mission to Israel in 2008. [10]
Beazley is also known as an educator and education advocate,spanning lecturing at university level,and working to encourage school child engagement in science, [11] and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators.
Beazley is a current or former[ which? ] board member of the Royal Perth Hospital Research Foundation, [12] the Western Australian Art Gallery Foundation,the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, [13] and the Ear Sciences Institute of Australia. She is a patron of the Reflections Through Reality Foundation, [14] the Western Australian Naturalists' Club, [15] and Vice-Patron of the Western Australia Royal Society. She is a current or former[ which? ] Advisory Board member for Monash Vision Group for Bionic Vision, [16] and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function. [17] Beazley is also a member of the Technology and Industry Advisory Council of the Western Australian Government. She was a Trustee of the Western Australian Museum from 1999 to 2006. She helped establish the Brightwater Lyn Beazley Scholarship for research into acquired brain injury rehabilitation. [18]
In 2009,a new species of sponge discovered in the Perth Canyon off Rottnest Island was named Manihinea lynbeazleyae after Beazley. [19]
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