Dr Betty O’Neill

Doctorate of Creative Arts, Grad. Dip. Music Therapy, M. Bus., Grad. Dip. Employment Relations, B. Sc. (Hons), B.A.(History & Psychology)

I am a Sydney-based author, workshop and retreat facilitator, and university lecturer in Creative Intelligence and Innovation in the TD (Transdisciplinary) School at the University of Technology Sydney. I have a passion for learning, as my eclectic range of degrees attests, most recently a Doctorate of Creative Arts and my teaching is underpinned with sound research, interactive processes and creativity. I love facilitating writing workshops and retreats, talking writing, books and creativity and paddling the waterways in my inflatable kayak. 

As a past Director of the Board of the Society of Australian Genealogy (SAG), I have a passion for memoir and family history and facilitate regular Introduction to Writing Family History workshops for both SAG and Writing NSW. 

My debut memoir, The Other Side of Absence, was published by Ventura Press in 2020. I have also published a range of articles and book chapters (see here) and presented conference papers and workshops in Australia and overseas. I am currently researching and writing a memoir/family history on intergenerational homelessness.