David Mckee

BA(Gallaudet), MA(CSUN), PhD(Pittsburgh)

Dr David McKee is the previous Director of the Deaf Studies Research Unit.

David has taught and conducted research in USA. In 1992 he and Rachel Locker McKee established and taught New Zealand's first full-time sign language interpreter training course at Auckland University of Technology.

David's main research interests have been in Deaf Studies, including the corpus-based description of New Zealand Sign Language, sociolinguistic variation and NZSL lexicography, and comparative studies of sign languages (American, Australian, British, and New Zealand sign languages).

David is a member of the NZSL Teachers Association, the Deaf History International, and the Wellington Deaf Society .

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