... of Sir Eric Ashby provide a useful measure of this transformation. Ashby was an English scientist and writer on education who was Professor of Botany at the University of Sydney from 1938 to 1946, before returning to the UK, first to Manchester University, then to Queen’s University Belfast where he...

... significantly influenced by international thinking, often via the experiences of academics whose scholarly networks were not constrained by national boundaries. This paper explores the approaches of two British scientists, Professor Baron Eric Ashby and Sir John Philip Baxter (known as Philip), who in Australia...