Upon her graduation from Loyola College in 1969, Bacchi was the recipient of the Governor General's Academic Medal and The Knights of Columbus Prize For Canadian History.
[8] In 2003, Bacchi wrote Fear of Food: A Diary of Mothering, which chronicled her struggle with her first sons birth and early childhood.
[8] In 2010, Bacchi co-edited a book with Joan Eveline titled Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory through the University of Adelaide Press.
While there, she presented her paper titled Foucault, Policy and Rule: Challenging the Problem-Solving Paradigm to the Feminist Research Center in Aalborg.
[14] In 2012 Engaging with Carol Bacchi: Strategic Interventions and Exchanges, an edited collection exploring her work, to which she also contributed, was published by the University of Adelaide Press.
[8] Two years later, she published Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice with Susan Goodwin where they addressed "What's the Problem Represented to Be?"