DAVEY, CONSTANCE MURIEL (1882-1963), psychologist, was born on 4 December 1882
at Nuriootpa, South Australia, daughter of Stephen Henry Davey, bank-manager, and
his wife Emily Mary, née Roberts. She was educated at country schools, including
Mrs G. L. Barnard's at Clare. An accident, in which she was thrown from a trap and
permanently injured her hip and spine, delayed her further education, but in 1908
she began teaching with the Anglican Sisters of the Church, at Port Adelaide. Next
year she joined St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School as a mathematics and economics
teacher and began studying part time at the University of Adelaide (B.A., 1915;
M.A., 1918).
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Constance Muriel Davey, psychologist, was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1955 for education. Davey's special interest was 'mental efficiency and deficiency' in children, on which she completed a doctorate at the University of London in 1924. Davey was the first psychologist in the South Australian Education Department, with responsibility for all services for special needs children. Davey also taught at the University of Adelaide and helped establish the social work course at that institution. She was a member of the League of Women Voters, president from 1943-1947, and was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1950. Her study, Children and their law-makers, was published in 1956.
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Constance Muriel Davey was a psychologist in the South Australian Education Department from 1924 after having studied in Adelaide and in England. She was active in child welfare and training, and lectured in Psychology at the University of Adelaide 1927-50.
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