Breda Carty

(she/her)

Breda Carty has worked in Deaf Studies and in education of deaf and hard of hearing students. Her current research focuses on the history of deaf people in Australia.

Experience

  • 2018–present
    Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University
  • 2002–2018
    Conjoint Lecturer in Special Education, University of Newcastle

Education

  • 2005 
    Griffith University, PhD

Publications

  • 2022
    Signs of learning: Developing a national curriculum for first and second language learners of Auslan in Australian schools., Momento
  • 2022
    ‘A message to humanity on behalf of the adult deaf’: The protest writing of John Patrick Bourke, Australian Literary Studies
  • 2021
    Viewing the healthcare system through a deaf lens, Public Health Research and Practice
  • 2018
    Managing their own affairs: The Australian Deaf community in the 1920s and 1930s., Gallaudet University Press

Honours

AO (Officer of the Order of Australia, 2021)

Contact Breda for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision
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