Biography
Dr Elizabeth Mathews is an Assistant Professor with the School of Inclusive and Special Education at Dublin City University, Ireland. She holds a MA in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University and a PhD from Maynooth University, Ireland. Her work in deaf education spans research, policy change and practice. She is the project lead for the Irish Sign Language STEM Glossary Project, funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Her research interests are varied and include literacy, social-emotional development, and ideology in deaf education. She is the author of Language, Power, and Resistance: Mainstreaming Deaf Education published by Gallaudet University Press. In 2019, after ten years of campaigning, she developed an initiative that led to policy change in Ireland allowing Deaf people, for the first time in the history of the State, to become primary school teachers.
Access to Initial Teacher Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Project lead: Elizabeth Mathews
Funded by the Higher Education Authority and the Department of Education.
Read more here.
Irish Sign Language STEM Glossary Project
Project lead: Elizabeth Mathews
Funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Institute of Physics
Read more here.
Literacy Outcomes for DHH Children in Mainstream Primary Schools
Researchers: Elizabeth Mathews and Margaret O'Donnell
Funded by the Education Partnership Group
Read more here.
Associated publication here
Life Skills and Vulnerable Deaf Adults
Researcher: Elizabeth Mathews with Ann Marie Shier
Funded by the Education Partnership Group
Associated publication here
Additional Projects
Deaf Children in Gaelscoileanna College Research Committee, 2016 - 2017
Shared Reading Programme Dept of Children and Youth Affairs National Lottery Grant Scheme, 2014-2015
Shared Reading Programme Ireland Funds, 2012-2013
Mainstreaming Deaf Education (PhD) Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 2006 - 2008
Mainstreaming Deaf Education (PhD) John and Pat Hume Scholarship, 2005 - 2007