Director, Centre for Research and Professional Education, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children
Professor Greg Leigh holds a Diploma of Teaching and a Bachelor of Education from Griffith University, a Master of Science from Washington University and a PhD in special education from Monash University. Earlier this year the Deafness Foundation awarded Professor Leigh the Peter Howson Medal for "Outstanding lifetime contribution to the field of Deafness". More recently, Prof Leigh was recognised as the Griffith University Arts Education and Law Alumnus of the Year.
Prof Leigh has previously held a variety of positions in the education of deaf children and worked as a curriculum consultant in Queensland before entering academia. He was previously Course Coordinator for the program in education of the deaf at Deakin University and has held the position of International Visiting Scholar at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. He is a member of the executive management team of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.
Prof Leigh has published numerous articles, chapters, and monographs on aspects of education of deaf children, including a co-edited book with Prof Des Power titled Educating Deaf Students: Global Perspectives. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Deafness and Education International and Phonetics and Speech Sciences. Prof Leigh serves on numerous Australian government consultative committees on issues related to deafness and is Chairman of the Chairman of the Australasian Newborn Hearing Screening Committee. He is also Chairman of the International Steering Committees of both the Asia-Pacific Congress on Deafness (APCD) and the International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED).