- Occupation
- Social worker
Summary
Hannah Buckley was South Australia's first Catholic social worker. She ran the Catholic Social Service Bureau in Adelaide.
Buckley, Hannah
Details
After working at the ACSSB, Buckley made a significant contribution to policy development in the area of medical social work. She joined the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1948, and later the South Australian Tuberculosis Association. In 1959, Buckley movied to the Queen Victoria Hospital and fought to transform the attitudes of doctors there toward social work and social workers. She held an executive position in the South Australian branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Sources used to compile this entry: Gleeson, Damian John, 'The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985', PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, 2006. Also available at http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/uploads/approved
/adt-NUN20070423.123207/public/02whole.pdf.
Published resources
Theses
- Gleeson, Damian John, 'The Professionalisation of Australian Catholic Social Welfare, 1920-1985', PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, 2006. Also available at http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/uploads/approved
/adt-NUN20070423.123207/public/02whole.pdf. Details
Online Resources
- 'Buckley, Hannah', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-696096. Details
Barbara Lemon
Created: 3 December 2008
Hannah Buckley was my aunt, my mother's sister, and I would be thrilled to learn more about her work. We were a close family but she died when I was in my late 20's and was very modest about her work.
Maggie Farrell - 11 November 2010, 11:17 AM EST
She does sound like quite an amazing woman for the time.
You might be able to find out more via the link to Damian Gleeson's thesis. At the very least, there could be more publications you could refer to.
AWAP Administrator - 16 November 2010, 3:20 PM EST
Another published resource on Hannah Buckley is
D.J. Gleeson, ‘Hannah Buckley: South Australia’s first Catholic social worker’, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 36 (2008), pp.91-100.
Damian Gleeson - 29 November 2010, 5:04 PM EST