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Swimming is in Paige’s blood – her grandmother was friends with Dawn Fraser. Paige is inspired by swimmers Cameron McEvoy and Michael Phelps. At the 2015 Australian Age Championships she won silver in the 50m breaststroke as well as bronze in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, At the Australian Age Championships that followed she took gold in both the 50m and 100m breaststroke.Īt the 2015 Australian Open Championships she won bronze in the multi-class 50m breaststroke as well as making the final of the 100m breaststroke. Competing in the open multi-class 50m breaststroke she took home the bronze medal. She started competing through school with able-bodied athletes and for the last three years has been coached by Michael Mullins.Ī breaststroke specialist, in 2014 Paige competed at the Australian Championships at the age of 13. She started swimming when she was 12 years old when she was undergoing therapy. She continues to suffer hemiplegia on her right side as well as intacraneal hypertension, epilepsy and autism. She had haemorrages behind the eyes and now suffers from drusens, yellow deposits under the retinas. Her injuries from the accident were severe, requiring four years of recovery with spinal taps, MRIs and operations to remove fluid from her brain. The Bishopsgate Institute holds a collection of Leonard's papers, books, press cuttings, notes, and publications.When Paige Leonhardt was five years old, she was in a car accident in which she was thrown from the car.(Co-authored with Louise Morley and Miriam David) 'Quality and Equality in British PhD Assessment', Quality Assurance in Education, vol.A Woman's Guide to Doctoral Studies ( Open University Press, 2001).

#DIANA LEONHARD SERIES#

(Co-edited with Lisa Adkins) Sex in Question: French Materialist Feminism, Gender and Society: Feminist Perspectives series ( Taylor & Francis, 1996).(Co-authored with Christine Delphy) Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies ( Wiley, 1992).(Co-edited with Sheila Allen) Sexual Divisions Revisited ( Macmillan, 1991).Sex and Generation: A Study of Courtship and Weddings ( Tavistock Publications, 1982).(Co-authored with Sheila Allen) Dependence and Exploitation in Work and Marriage ( Longman, 1976).(Co-edited with Sheila Allen) Sexual Divisions and Society: Process and Change ( Routledge, 1976).Leonard, whose marriage to Rodney Barker ended in divorce in 1981 but produced three children, died of cancer on 27 November 2010. She was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2006 and a fellow of the Society for Research in Higher Education two years later. She retired in 2007 but remained there as an emeritus professor. Aside from a number of visiting professorships, Leonard remained at the Institute of Education for the rest of her career, which culminated in her appointment in 1998 as Professor of Sociology. Between 19, she was seconded to the Open University to oversee the creation of its women's studies course. There, she established the Centre for Research on Education and Gender in 1984, which explored issues facing women and girls during schooling and university education. The next year, she was appointed to a lectureship in sociology at the Institute of Education, part of the University of London. She also helped to edit Trouble and Strife, a feminist journal, and helped to found the Women’s Research and Resources Centre (later renamed the Feminist Library) in London in 1975. She took part in a project under Christine Delphy in Paris (1975–77), which examined the ways that women were oppressed in the domestic sphere, a process that encouraged and helped to refine her materialist–feminist critique of the family. In the meantime, she became active in the Women's liberation movement. Her PhD was awarded in 1977 for her thesis 'Sex and generation: a study of the process and ritual of courtship and wedding in a South Wales town'. She went back to education, this time embarking on doctoral studies at University College, Swansea returning to social anthropology, she decided to study courtship and marriage in southern Wales. On relocating to Swansea with her husband's work, she found herself out of a job. After the Second World War, the family moved back to the United Kingdom, and Diana continued her education at Brighton and Hove High School and then at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read natural sciences she developed an enthusiasm for anthropology during her degree but after graduating in 1961, trained and worked as a science teacher in Clapham (1964–67). Diana Mary Leonard was born in Trinidad on 13 December 1941 her father was a scientist, her mother a teacher.

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