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词条 Winifred Cavenagh
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Honours

  5. Selected works

  6. References

Winifred Elizabeth Cavenagh, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (née Speakman; 12 November 1908 – 7 May 2004) was a British criminologist, social scientist, and academic. She joined the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in social studies in 1946 and was made Professor of Social Administration and Criminology in 1972: she retired from academia in 1976 and was appointed Professor Emeritus. Outside of her university career, she served as a local magistrate, on numerous boards, and, after study law and qualifying, worked as a barrister.

Early life and education

Cavenagh was born 12 November 1908 in Manchester, England to Arthur Speakman and Ethel Speakman (née Butterworth).[1][2] She was educated at Broughton and Crumpsall High School for Girls, a school in Salford, Greater Manchester.[2] She studied economics at the London School of Economics, University of London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree.[1] After graduating, she undertook a further year of study at the University of Bonn.[2] She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of Birmingham in 1959 for her monograph The Child and the Court.[1][2]

Career

From 1931 to 1938 she worked as a sales manager at Lewis's, a chain of department stores.[1][2] After two years employed in social work, she joined the Ministry of Labour as the chief welfare officer for Birmingham.[2] She served in that role from 1941 till the end of the Second World War in 1945.[1]

In 1946, Cavenagh joined the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in social studies.[2][3] That year, she also became a co-opted expert member of the Birmingham City Council Education Committee.[1] In 1960, she was promoted to senior lecturer.[2] She spent 1971 as a visiting professor in criminology at the University of Ghana.[1][2] Having returned to Birmingham, she was appointed Professor of Social Administration and Criminology in 1972.[1] She retired from full-time academia in 1976 and was appointed Emeritus Professor.[1]

In 1949, Cavenagh became a magistrate in the City of Birmingham.[1][3] She choose to study law alongside her university teaching, and was called to the bar (qualifying as a barrister) at Gray's Inn in 1964.[2] She served as a deputy chairperson at the magistrates' court from 1970 to 1978.[1] She was added to the supplemental list, effectively retiring from her judicial duties, in 1978.[1]

Personal life

In 1938, the then Winifred Speakman married Hugh Cavenagh.[1] The marriage brought one step son.[2] Her husband predeceased her, dying in 1967.[2]

Honours

In the 1977 New Year Honours, Cavenagh was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Wages Councils.[4]

Selected works

  • {{cite book |last1=Cavenagh |first1=Winifred E. |title=Four Decades of Students in Social Work |date=1953}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Cavenagh |first1=Winifred E. |title=The Child and the Court |date=1959 |publisher=Victor Gonnancz |location=London}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Cavenagh |first1=Winifred E. |title=Juvenile Courts, The Child and the Law |date=1967 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=London}}

References

1. ^10 11 12 {{cite web |title=Cavenagh, Prof. Winifred Elizabeth |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10488 |date=1 December 2007}}
2. ^10 11 {{cite news |title=Professor Winifred Cavenagh |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-winifred-cavenagh-98t020jj37j |accessdate=7 June 2018 |work=The Times |date=25 May 2004 |language=en}}
3. ^{{cite book |title=The Writers Directory: 1980-82 |date=2016 |publisher=Macmillan Press |location=London |isbn=9781349036509 |page=207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi-xCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207 |accessdate=7 June 2018}}
4. ^{{London Gazette |issue= 47102 |date= 30 December 1976 |pages= 9–10 |supp= y }}
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