Gemma Carey is a Canberra-based researcher with a PhD in social policy reform who is currently undertaking a second PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. She has published Grassroots to Government with University of Melbourne Press (2016) and Creating and implementing public policy with Routledge New York (2015), amongst other titles.
Gemma’s unflinching memoir, No Matter Our Wreckage, is a ground-breaking memoir about grooming, intergenerational trauma, grief and love, and will be published by Allen & Unwin in September 2020.
Gemma is the 2017 ACT Tall Poppy for Science Communication and winner of the Eileen Plant Medal for contributions to policy debate. Her work, both academic and literary non-fiction, has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian and featured on ABC Radio and The Monthly Podcast.
Gemma is Professor and Research Director at UNSW’s Centre for Social Impact where she regularly undertakes high-profile research on issues such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme and appears in the media.
Praise for No Matter Our Wreckage:
‘Personal and political, unflinching and generous, Carey writes with a researcher’s curiosity and a survivor’s urgency’ – Emily Maguire
‘No Matter Our Wreckage is a brutal reminder of our responsibility to notice and protect those we love. A devastating and clear-eyed memoir with a poet’s voice. Gemma Carey will boil your blood and break your heart.’ – Anna Spargo-Ryan