Lois Joyce Bryson (5 October 1937 – 7 January 2024) was an Australian sociologist.
[1] Bryson completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1959 followed by a Diploma of Education in 1964, both at the University of Melbourne, before achieving her PhD in sociology at Monash University.
[3] In 1972, Bryson wrote An Australian Newtown (1972), Australia's first sociological study of a suburb with Faith Thompson and, with Ian Winter, Social Change, Suburban Lives (1999), a re-study of the same suburb thirty years on.
[8] Her career in research was recognised by her election as a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1998, membership of the Australian Research Council's research training and careers committee, and the award of a Federation medal (2003).
[9] In retirement she was an emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle and an adjunct professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.