Janet McCalman

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Born in Melbourne in 1948, Janet McCalman attended Methodist Ladies College in Kew on a scholarship. She completed a BA (Hons) degree at the University of Melbourne in 1970 and went on to fulfil her PhD at the Australian National University in 1976. McCalman spent several years undertaking casual office work and working as a teacher and independent scholar. From 1993 until 1997 she held an Australian Research Council Fellowship at the University of Melbourne before taking up a Senior Lectureship based in the Centre for Health and Society, split between the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and the History and Philosophy Programs. In 1999 McCalman and Ruth Morley, then with the Menzies Research Institute, began the 'Life Courses in Times Past Program' at the Centre for Health and Society funded by the Australian Research Council. Since then she has been engaged in constructing longitudinal cradle-to-grave datasets for historical population health. These include the Lying-In Hospital Cohort Study, drawn from the midwifery books of the Royal Women s Hospital (1857 1900), the Koori Health Research Database, Founders and Survivors: the life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen s Land, and currently Diggers to Veterans: risk, resilience and recovery in the First AIF. In 2000 McCalman was appointed Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Health and Society. From 2001-2003 she served as the Head of the History and Philosophy of Science and was appointed Professor in Public Health by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences in 2003. Since 2011 she has been based at the Centre for Health Equity in the Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, Faculty of Medical, Dentistry and Health Sciences. She is also co-director of the Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit. A noted historian specialising in historic population health, McCalman published her first book, 'Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965', in 1984. Continuing her work on local history, McCalman published 'A Hundred Years at Bank Street: A Centenary History of Ascot Vale State School 1885-1985' in 1985. The 1993 publication 'Journeyings: the biography of a middle-class generation 1920-1990', was accompanied by the co-authored statistical survey 'Journeyings survey: a statistical portrait of a middle-class generation'. In 1998 McCalman published 'Sex and suffering: women's health and a women's hospital: the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856 - 1996'.

Born in Melbourne in 1948, Janet McCalman attended Methodist Ladies College in Kew on a scholarship. She completed a BA (Hons) degree at the University of Melbourne in 1970 and went on to fulfil her PhD at the Australian National University in 1976. McCalman spent several years undertaking casual office work and working as a teacher and independent scholar. From 1993 until 1997 she held an Australian Research Council Fellowship at the University of Melbourne before taking up a Senior Lectureship based in the Centre for Health and Society, split between the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and the History and Philosophy Programs. In 1999 McCalman and Ruth Morley, then with the Menzies Research Institute, began the 'Life Courses in Times Past Program' at the Centre for Health and Society funded by the Australian Research Council. Since then she has been engaged in constructing longitudinal cradle-to-grave datasets for historical population health. These include the Lying-In Hospital Cohort Study, drawn from the midwifery books of the Royal Women s Hospital (1857 1900), the Koori Health Research Database, Founders and Survivors: the life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen s Land, and currently Diggers to Veterans: risk, resilience and recovery in the First AIF. In 2000 McCalman was appointed Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Health and Society. From 2001-2003 she served as the Head of the History and Philosophy of Science and was appointed Professor in Public Health by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences in 2003. Since 2011 she has been based at the Centre for Health Equity in the Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, Faculty of Medical, Dentistry and Health Sciences. She is also co-director of the Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit. A noted historian specialising in historic population health, McCalman published her first book, 'Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965', in 1984. Continuing her work on local history, McCalman published 'A Hundred Years at Bank Street: A Centenary History of Ascot Vale State School 1885-1985' in 1985. The 1993 publication 'Journeyings: the biography of a middle-class generation 1920-1990', was accompanied by the co-authored statistical survey 'Journeyings survey: a statistical portrait of a middle-class generation'. In 1998 McCalman published 'Sex and suffering: women's health and a women's hospital: the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856 - 1996'.