Dexter Colboyd Dunphy , (born 1934) is an Australian academic.

Education

Williams obtained a Dip Ed, and BA and M Ed degrees at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

and a PhD in sociology at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Career

Dunphy joined the faculty of the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

. Dunphy later joined the faculty of

University of Technology Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although its origins are said to trace back to the 1830s, the university was founded in its current form in 1988. As of 2021 ...

. In 1972, Dunphy delivered the annual series of

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Boyer Lectures The Boyer Lectures are a series of talks by prominent Australians, presenting ideas on major social, scientific or cultural issues, and broadcast on ABC Radio National. The Boyer Lectures began in 1959 as the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commis ...

on "The Challenge of Change".

Honours and awards

Dunphy was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2007 for "service to education, particularly in the fields of organisational change, corporate sustainability and business management, and to the community". He was elected a Fellow of the

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Austr ...

in 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunphy, Dexter 1934 births Living people Members of the Order of Australia University of Sydney alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of New South Wales faculty University of Technology Sydney faculty Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia