- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: IMP0296
Davey, Constance Muriel
- Dr, OBE
- Born 4 December, 1882, Nuriootpa South Australia Australia
- Died 4 December, 1963
- Occupation Educator, Psychologist
Summary
Constance Muriel Davey, psychologist, was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1955 for education. Davey’s special interest was ‘mental efficiency and deficiency’ in children, on which she completed a doctorate at the University of London in 1924. Davey was the first psychologist in the South Australian Education Department, with responsibility for all services for special needs children. Davey also taught at the University of Adelaide and helped establish the social work course at that institution. She was a member of the League of Women Voters, president from 1943-1947, and was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1950. Her study, Children and their law-makers, was published in 1956.
Archival resources
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- State Library of South Australia
- National Library of Australia
Published resources
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Resource Section
- Davey, Constance Muriel (1882-1963), Edgar, Suzanne, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080239b.htm
- Davey, Constance (1882 - 1963), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001014b.htm
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- Book
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Resource
- Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html
- Trove: Davey, Constance Muriel (1882-1963), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-621028
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html