Valerie Constance Yule OAM (2 January 1929 – 28 January 2021) [1] was an Australian researcher in literacy and imagination, and a clinical child psychologist, [2] academic, school psychologist and teacher, working in disadvantaged schools, Melbourne and Monash Universities in psychology and education; the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital; and hon. research fellow ( Psychology) at Aberdeen University.
Yule died on 28 January 2021. She was posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia at the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours. [3]
She attended Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne (East 1945). She obtained BA (Hons), History and English, MA Psychology, Dip Ed, and PhD Education - research thesis on Orthography and Reading, Spelling and Society.
Fellow of the Galton Institute [4] ( UK); Member, British Psychological Society; Vice-President, Simplified Spelling Society [5] ( UK); Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia, [6] and of Australian educational and social reforming organizations. Founder, the non-profit Australian Centre for Social Innovations, [7] 1991; member, the British Institute for Social Inventions, [8] 1984.
Valerie Constance Yule OAM (2 January 1929 – 28 January 2021) [1] was an Australian researcher in literacy and imagination, and a clinical child psychologist, [2] academic, school psychologist and teacher, working in disadvantaged schools, Melbourne and Monash Universities in psychology and education; the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital; and hon. research fellow ( Psychology) at Aberdeen University.
Yule died on 28 January 2021. She was posthumously awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia at the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours. [3]
She attended Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne (East 1945). She obtained BA (Hons), History and English, MA Psychology, Dip Ed, and PhD Education - research thesis on Orthography and Reading, Spelling and Society.
Fellow of the Galton Institute [4] ( UK); Member, British Psychological Society; Vice-President, Simplified Spelling Society [5] ( UK); Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia, [6] and of Australian educational and social reforming organizations. Founder, the non-profit Australian Centre for Social Innovations, [7] 1991; member, the British Institute for Social Inventions, [8] 1984.