Lyn Richards
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AlmamaterLa Trobe University
InstitutionsLa Trobe University
Lyn Richards | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | La Trobe University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | La Trobe University |
| Thesis | Migrants in the DLP : a study of the involvement of a group of migrants in the Democratic Labor Party in Victoria (1971) |
Marilyn Gray Richards (born 1944) is an Australian social scientist and writer who, with computer scientist Tom Richards, developed the software analysis packages NUD*IST and NVivo.
Richards was born as the second daughter to Tim Marshall – head of the Division of Soils at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – and Ann Nicholls, who lectured at the Geography Department at the University of Adelaide. Her older sister is Jenny Graves.
Richards studied political science and sociology at La Trobe University. Her early research considered the involvement of migrants in the Democratic Labour Party.[1]
