Dr Judith Godden

Honorary Associate,
Department of History

Postal Address: Department of History - Quadrangle (A14)
University of Sydney NSW 2006

Initial telephone contact: 0408 967 937
Email: Judith’s email address is jgodden at usyd.edu.au
Qualifications: BA(hons) U.N.E., PhD, Macq., DipEd U.N.E.

Judith Godden is accredited as a professional member of the Professional Historians Association (NSW) and undertakes commissioned historical work. Her research and teaching interests are reflected in her past roles as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine; President of the NSW Society of the History of Medicine; Secretary of the Religious History Society of Australia; Secretary of the Australian Historical Association; member of the editorial board of Metascience; and book review editor for Nursing Inquiry.

Judith received the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship from the State Library of NSW to research the controversial nurse and professional woman, Lucy Osburn (1836-91). The resultant biography was short-listed for the National Biography Prize 2008. She is currently completing a professional biography of nursing leader Gwen Burbidge (1904-2000). Her interest in historical biography is also reflected in her 16 entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography and other biographical dictionaries. She regularly presents her research findings to professional, academic and community groups.

Book/Monograph

• Godden, Judith, Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced. Florence Nightingale’s Envoy to Australia, Sydney University Press, 2006. (available from www.sup.usyd.edu.au).
• Godden, Judith, Brew, Angela and Roe, Ernest, 'Learning Research Skills: Programs and Issues', Occasional Paper 6, University of Sydney, 1996.

Journal articles

• Godden, Judith, ‘Hospitals’, Sydney Journal, 1:2, 2008. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/sydney_journal/issue/view/43
• Godden, Judith, ‘Bathsheba Ghost, Matron of the Sydney Infirmary 1852-66: A Silenced Life’, Labour History, no. 87, 2004, pp 49-63.
• Godden, Judith and Helmstadter, Carol, ’Women’s Mission and Professional Knowledge: Nightingale nursing in colonial Australia and Canada’, Social History of Medicine, 17:2, 2004, pp 157-74.
• Godden, Judith, “Matching the ideal? The first generation of Nightingale nursing probationers, Sydney Hospital, 1868-84”, Health and History, 5:1, 2003, pp 22-41.
• Godden, Judith, “A ‘lamentable failure’? The founding of Nightingale nursing in Australia, 1868-84”, Australian Historical Studies, 32:117, 2001, pp 276-91.
• Godden, Judith and Forsyth, Sue, “Defining Relationships and limiting power: Two leaders of Australian nursing, 1868-1904”, Nursing Inquiry, 7:1, 2000, pp 10-19.
• Godden, Judith, “Containment and control: Presbyterian women missionaries and their supporters, NSW Australia 1891-1914”, Women's History Review, 6:1, 1997, pp 75-93.
• Godden, Judith, "Sectarianism and purity within the woman's sphere: Sydney refuges during the late nineteenth century", Journal of Religious History, 14:3, 1987, pp 291-306.
• Godden, Judith, "British models and colonial experience: Women's philanthropy in late nineteenth century Sydney", Journal of Australian Studies, 19, 1987, pp 40-53.

Book chapters

• Godden, Judith and Forsyth, Sue, ‘Historical Methods’, Nursing Research Methods, Critical Appraisal and Utilisation, (eds.) Z. Schneider et al, 2nd edn, Harcourt Australia, Melbourne, 2003, pp.154-62.
• Godden, Judith, "'For the benefit of mankind': Nightingale's legacy and hours of work in Australian nursing, 1868-1939", A. M. Rafferty and J. Robinson (eds.) Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare, Routledge, London, 1997, pp 177-91.
• Godden, Judith, "Victorian influences on the development of a professional identity within nursing", Scholarship in the Discipline of Nursing, (eds.) G. Gray & R. Pratt, Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne, 1995, pp 239-54.
• Godden, Judith, "No one can take away the kudos? Jessie Street and the unionisation of nurses in New South Wales", Jessie Street. Documents and Essays, ed. H. Radi, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1990, pp 94-103.
• Godden, Judith, “Portrait of a lady: A decade in the life of Helen Fell”, Worth her Salt. Women at Work in Australia, (eds) M. Bevege et al., Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, pp 33-48.