Dr Georgia Carr

PhD (USyd), BA (Hons I) (USyd)

Georgia Carr is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Communication in Healthcare (ICH) at the Australian National University.

Her research areas are functional linguistics, educational linguistics and health literacy. In particular, her expertise is in discourse analysis, evaluative language and corpus linguistics, with a focus on sex education, health and media. 

She is currently working in healthcare communication on a project examining end-of-life care.

In her doctoral research, she analysed the teaching practices of sex education, as described in her book The Language of Sex Education: With Respect to Consent. Her previous sex education research includes a linguistic analysis of Dolly Doctor advice columns, looking at how sex education advice for young women has changed in the last 25 years.

Past research projects include analyses of diabetes reporting in the news, Aboriginal English in the media and the language of climate change.

A list of publications is available at: georgiacarr.com/publications

Grant funding

Sexuality and Sexual Health Education: Pre-Service Teacher Training Mapping. NSW Health Program Grant. $90,638.
With A/Prof Melissa Kang, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney.

Improving End-of-life Care for Patients in Australian Cardiology Wards. St Vincent's Clinic Research Grant. $30,000.
With S Middleton, T Holman, P MadDonald, D Slade, D Lowe, G Watts, R Kennedy, B Clifford, L Patat, M Williams, G McEarlean, G Paull, S Sheppard-Law, J McVeigh, M Ryan, N Templteton, C Algoso, P You, L Goncharov & N Straiton.