Dorward, Douglas Fyffe

Positions summary

Lecturer/Associate Professor in department of Zoology, 1962-1981; Council member of the Australian Conservation Foundation and Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union; Scientific Consultant to the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Biography

Dr D. F. Dorward was appointed Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology in November 1961. He took up his appointment in February 1962, was promoted to Lecturer in the same year and to Senior Lecturer in 1967. While on study leave in 1970 he was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Scientist at the Wildfowl Trust. By 1974 when Dorward was promoted to Associate Professor he was a Council member of the Australian Conservation Foundation and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, and Scientific Consultant to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Dorward's research interests included the ecology and behaviour of invertebrates, primarily birds and the application of scientific findings to practical problems of conservation and management.* He retired from Monash in 1980.

Papers

Correspondence files 1964-1981
Inward and copies of outward correspondence, arranged chronologically within alphabetical files. The series covers almost the entire period of Professor Dorward's employment at Monash and also reflect his many research and outside interests.