Paddy Ladd
11 February 1952
Paddy Ladd (born 11 February 1952) is an English deaf scholar, author, activist and researcher of deaf culture. Ladd was a lecturer and MSc Coordinator (MSc in Deaf Studies to approx 2007, then after a brief pause, MSc in Deafhood Studies 2009) at the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol. Despite considerable international pressure, the centre was wound down as the MSc was closed in 2009, the undergrad programme taught out from 2010 to 2013, and the centre finally closed in the July of that year. Ladd was one of the first presenters of BBC's See Hear and presented the earliest
