Joy Tivy

Joy Tivy FRSE FRSGS FIB (1924–1995) was a 20th century Irish physical geographer at the University of Glasgow.

She excelled as an undergraduate most notably scoring highest in highly competitive exams in 1944, which granted her status as a Scholar.

[1] Her PhD thesis was entitled, A study of the effect of physical factors on the vegetation of hill grazings in selected areas of southern Scotland,[1] p. 55.

[1] She was the second female to be awarded at professorship at the University of Glasgow in 1976[3] and was head of the Department of Geography and Topographic Science.

[4] Her proposers were John Lenihan, William Whigham Fletcher, Donald Michie, S. G. Checkland, Lord Cameron, and Wreford Watson.