Lucy bryce

  • Lucy Bryce
  • Business Support Officer (Alum)
  • University of Queensland

Lucy Bryce spent over 20 years in the marketing industry where she managed large global retail brands and launched many exciting consumer products before switching to the university sector. Over the past 5 years she has built a wealth of knowledge in academic administration and ARC Centre of Excellence experience.  As the UQ Business Support Officer, Lucy is integral to ensuring the Centre’s investigators and students run smoothly, allowing the team to focus on excellence in research output and collaboration.

Lucy has worked with the UQ Digital Child team for over three years now and finds the work they do fascinating and real-world relevant. As a mother of a pre-tween son, Lucy has firsthand experience with learning and digital technologies and has a passion to understand more about how children’s digital experiences can influence or enhance their educational outcomes.

Earliest digital memory
Getting our first (black & white) TV in about 1978, only to be terribly disappointed when we we

Lucy Bryce was born on 12 June 1897 at Lindfield, New South Wales, but later moved to Melbourne.

She was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Girls' Grammar School and received her Bachelor of Science (1918) and Bachelor of Medicine (1922) from the University of Melbourne. She went on to hold research posts at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research from 1922-28 and spent some of this time in London at the Lister Institute. She then went on to become clinical pathologist and bacteriologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital until 1934 when she entered private practice, while continuing part-time research. Lucy was also made honorary Director of Pathology at the Queen Victoria Hospital.

Lucy is best remembered for her work in establishing Australia's first Blood Transfusion Service in 1929. Working with Dr Eric Cooper, the Victorian division of the Australian Red Cross Society agreed to set up a panel of blood donors, while Lucy, as honorary Director, took charge of the laboratory testing and medical care of the donors. She adopted new blood storage techniques

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