Writing

Carrie Hayter writes for diverse audiences to challenge how people work with people who use social care and health services. 

Her writing ranges from academic work, opinion pieces for magazines, research and evaluation consulting reports, to ‘how-to’ guides for service providers and people who use health services, social care, to education and training workshops. She writes a range of resources to educate and support people in transforming social care and health services in Australia.

Carrie was one of the Associate Editors for the first ever LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Special issues of the Australasian Journal on Ageing released in November 2015.

She is a contributor to the magazines Community Care Review, Australian Ageing Agendas and writes opinion pieces for Aged Care Insite.

Between 2020 and 2023, Carrie Hayter worked with peers from the DDAlliance and the Community Disability Alliance Hunter (CDAH) to explore the challenges and benefits of peer support in two peer led organisations across NSW. Read our protocol paper 

Reflecting on over a decade of co-design work in health and social care, in 2025 Carrie Hayter co-published a reflection on facilitating co-design in health care: a collaborative autoethnography of personalities, power and competing priorities.

Carrie Hayter also worked with Health Consumers NSW, to co-design and co-create consumer and community involvement in health research remuneration guidelines for consumers in 2023.

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