Bernadette Egan

Bernadette Egan is a Registered Architect with over twenty years of extensive international experience on a diverse range of private and public sector projects. She has a Master of Laws (LLM) in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy and has conducted legal research for the Committee on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is passionate about Universal Design and believes that Architects have a responsibility to provide an accessible built environment as a collective good that benefits all. She advocates that ‘Designing for Diversity is simply Designing for Equality’ and is currently researching ‘An Investigation into Human Rights, the Built Environment and Architectural Education.’

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.