- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE3965
Buckley, Hannah
(1917 – 1981)- Occupation Social worker
Summary
Hannah Buckley was South Australia’s first Catholic social worker. She ran the Catholic Social Service Bureau in Adelaide.
Details
After working at the ACSSB, Buckley made a significant contribution to policy development in the area of medical social work. She joined the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1948, and later the South Australian Tuberculosis Association. In 1959, Buckley moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital and fought to transform the attitudes of doctors there toward social work and social workers. She held an executive position in the South Australian branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Published resources
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Thesis
- The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985, Gleeson, Damian John, 2006, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:1178/SOURCE1?view=true
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Resource
- Trove: Buckley, Hannah, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-696096
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders