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UWA's Centenary year is also a year of milestones for the Lincoln family.

Frank Lincoln, an honorary research fellow in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, celebrates a 60-year relationship with the University this year, while his daughter Cathy celebrates her 50 ^th birthday.

Both of them marked this special year at the graduation ceremonies when Frank watched Cathy receive her PhD.

Cathy graduated for the first time from UWA with a medical degree in 1987.  She now works as a forensic physician on the Gold Coast and is Deputy Director of the Queensland Health Clinical Forensic Medicine Unit.

Her father began his studies at UWA as an undergraduate in 1953, and continued as a graduate student with a part-time position on staff. He graduated with a PhD in Chemistry in 1967 and was appointed to a permanent staff position shortly afterwards.  He retired as senior lecturer in 2004, but continues his inorganic chemistry research after 60 years on the same campus.

The younger Dr Lincoln works in clinical forensic medicine, which includes the area of sexual assault. In her thesis, based upon research conducted in WA and Queensland, she has addressed the issue of genital injury and medical evidence in sexual assault trials, to assist the courts in their understanding of its significance in relation to consent.

She was supervised by Winthrop Professor Ian Jacobs and Associate Professor Alison Ward (Oxford University).

Published in UWA News , April 2013