Dixon, Joan Maureen

Positions summary

Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, 1961-1963

Biography

Joan Dixon was a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology from 1961 to 1963. After finishing her Bachelor of Science (Hons) at the University of Tasmania in 1959, she took up a position as Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Queensland in 1960. In early 1961, she relocated to Melbourne after obtaining a three year contract as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the newly established Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology under Head of Department Jock Marshall. She lectured to first year science and medical students and wrote, organised and ran the first year laboratory class programme in biology. She lectured on invertebrate zoology to second year zoology students in 1962 and then third year zoology students in 1963. She was offered an extension to her contract at Monash, but chose to leave to take up a position at the National Museum of Victoria, where she worked for the rest of her professional life. She was Curator of Vertebrates 1966-1977, Curator of Mammals 1978-1994 and then Senior Curator Mammalogy 1994-2001, when she retired.

Papers

Teaching files 1961-1963
Teaching files for Biology I 1961, Zoology II 1962 and Zoology III 1963.  It includes lecture notes, laboratory class notes and student handouts prepared by Dixon as well as timetables and notices to teaching staff.