Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901 - 1955)

Camilla Wedgwood, the fifth of seven children of Josiah and Ethel (née Bowen) Wedgwood, came to Australia in 1928 to lecture in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She then lectured at the University of Capetown, South Africa and at the London School of Economics and Political Science before being granted a fellowship to study the lives of women and children on Manam Island, New Guinea by the Australian National Research Council. Later Wedgwood became principal of Women’s College at the University of Sydney and held this position until her appointment in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, at the express wish of General Sir Thomas Blamey. She developed policies for postwar educational resconstruction in Papua New Guinea. Following her discharge Wedgwood returned to lecturing. A member of the Australian Student Christian Movement she was also involved with the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children, the Anthropological Society of New South Wales, the Australian Federation of University Women and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

Events

1920	Studied anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge, under W E Armstrong and A C Haddon
1922	Passed with first-class honours the English tripos
1923	Held the Arthur Hugh Clough scholarship
1924	Held the Bathurst scholarship
1924	Passed anthropology tripos
1924	Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
1925	Joined the Society of Friends
1926 - 1927	Assistant lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at Bedford College, London
1927	Qualified as Master of Arts (MA)
1928 - 1929	Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology with the University of Sydney
1930	Temporary lecturer in the Department of African Life and Languages with the University of Cape Town
1931 - 1932	Council member of the Royal Anthropological Institute
1931 - 1932	Assistant lecturer with the London School of Economics
1931 - 1932	Member of the British Social Hygiene Council
1932 - 1934	Granted a fellowship by the Australian National Research Council for research work in Manam Island, New Guinea
1935	Carried out research work in Nauru Island
1935 - 1944	Principal of the Women's College at the University of Sydney
1936 - 1944	Honorary lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney
1944 - 1945	Service in New Guinea
11 January 1944 - 16 January 1946	Lieutenant-colonel, in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, attached to the Army Directorate of Research and Land Headquarters School of Civil Affairs
1947 - 1948	Taught at the Institute of Education at the University of London
1949	Senior lecturer in native administration at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (now ITI, International Training Institute)

Members

• Australian Federation of University Women Inc. (1922 - )

Related Corporate Bodies

• Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) (1942 - 1951)

  Service number: VF515041

  [1944 - 1946]

Books

• Wedgwood, Camilla H, The Hiri, Longmans Green and Co, London, 1955. [ Details... ]
• Wedgwood, Camilla H, Plays for young pupils, Longmans, Green, Melbourne, 1956, 54 pp. [ Details... ]
• Wedgwood, Camilla H. (compiled by), Education in the Pacific Islands : a selective bibliography, South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia, 1956, 80 pp. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

• Wetherell, David, 'Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde', in Ritchie, John and Langmore, Diane (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., pp. 515-517. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Department of Veterans' Affairs, 'WEDGWOOD, CAMILLA HILDERGARDE', in World War 2 Nominal Roll, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=618467. [ Details... ]

See also

• Alexander, Joseph A (ed.), Who's who in Australia 1950, 14th edn, The Herald, Melbourne, 1950, 816 pp. [ Details... ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 'Where are the Women in Australian science?', 22 August 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. [ Details... ]
• Deacon, A. Bernard and Wedgwood, Camilla H (edited by), Malekula : a vanishing people in the New Hebrides, G. Routledge & Sons, London, 1934, 789 pp. [ Details... ]
• Hogbin, H. Ian and Wedgwood, C., Development and welfare in the Western Pacific, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1943, 31 pp. [ Details... ]
• Howard, Ann, You'll be sorry!, Tarka, Sydney, 1990, 193 pp. [ Details... ]