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Breda Carty

(she/her)
Adjunct Fellow, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University

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)