Margaret Irene Bullock AM FTSE (née Roberts, born 24 March 1933) is an Australian former professor in physiotherapy at the University of Queensland and pioneer in the field of ergonomics.
Margaret Irene Roberts was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 24 March 1933.
[2] Margaret enrolled in the University of Queensland in 1951, becoming one of the first two students to graduate with a B.App.Sc in physiotherapy and occupational therapy in 1955.
[4] She married engineer and UQ graduate Keith Bullock in 1957,[5] and they moved to Boston, USA during his Fulbright Scholarship.
In the late 1960s, Bullock began research into the measurement of body movements, leading to an extensive study of physiotherapy practice and ergonomics of workspaces in vehicles and aircraft cockpits.