Australian National University.
She competed in the Les autres disability category due to her septic arthritis. She had an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship from 1995 to 2000. In 1997, she moved to Newcastle to study speech therapy at the University of Newcastle and trained under Bill Nelson.
She organised the "Swimming in Parallel Calendar 2000" to raise the profile of the Australian female Paralympic swim team
Dashwood graduated from Canberra Girls" Grammar School in 1995. She moved to Newcastle, New South Wales to study speech pathology at the University of Newcastle.
After completing her degree, she worked in England. She returned to Canberra in 2004 and enrolled in the inaugural Australian National University Medical School class and graduated in 2007.
In 2009, she completed her internship with ACT Health.
She is an intensive care registrar at Canberra Hospital. Dashwood has an interest in music, playing the organ and cello and singing, and plays the cello with the Australian Doctors" Orchestra. She is the Music Team Leader at All Saints Church, Canberra.