Professor Ian Davey

Emeritus Professor Ian Davey retired from the University in March 2006. Prior to his retirement he was the Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President, Research and International at the UniSA from his appointment in 1994 to December 2003 and Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President, Research & Innovation from 2004 to his retirement in 2006.

Born in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia), Ian Davey received his Bachelor of Arts, with Honours in History and Geography (1966) and the Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne in 1967. After teaching for a few years in state schools in Melbourne, he spent five years in Canada, completing his Masters (1972) and PhD degrees (1975) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

Ian Davey is a social historian, with special interests in demography, childhood, schooling and education. After his return from Canada, he joined the University of Adelaide, first as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and then as a Reader in the Department of History in 1994. He was Chair of the University's Research Committee from 1987 to 1990. Between 1991 and 1994 he was the Inaugural Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Professor Davey is the author of over 50 publications on aspects of the social history of childhood and education and has held Australian Research Council grants on the historical demography of fertility. In 1987, he was President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society.

After taking up his appointment at the University of South Australia, Professor Davey became increasingly involved in research policy and management, at both an institutional and national level.

He has served as a member of a number of key research groups of the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee: - Standing Committee on Research (1997/98) - Deputy and Pro Vice Chancellors' Research Committee (1988-90, 1994-2006). He Chaired this committee in 1997. - AVCC representative on Ministerial Working Party on the Research Quality Framework. (2006)

Over the years, Emeritus Professor Davey served on the boards of numerous Cooperative Research Centres and Research Institutes and was a member of the boards of the comercialisation companies of both the University of Adelaide, LUMINIS (1988-1990) and UniSA, ITEK (2003-2006). He also was a member of the Board of the History Trust of South Australia from 1994 to 2003. Since his retirement in 2006, Emeritus Professor has chaired the Innovation & Economic Opportunities Group of the Mawson Lakes Joint Venture and is a member of the Board of the CRC for Contamination Assessment & Remediation of the Environment. He also serves on various advisory boards including Education Adelaide's Industry Roundtable and UniSA's Research Centre for Life & Work. He was made an Adjunct Professor of the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies in 2006.

April 2008

Professor Davey chairs the University's Research Policy Committee.

He is a Member of the Boards of Management of: Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment Research Centre for Satellite Systems.

In addition, Professor Davey is on the Board of the History Trust of South Australia.

PhD Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

MA Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Dip Ed, University of Melbourne

BA (Hons), University of Melbourne

Ian Davey is the author of over 50 publications on aspects of the social history of childhood and education and has held Australian Research Council grants on the historical demography of fertility.