Yvette Maker

Yvette Maker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. She has a background in law and social policy and her current work focuses on the disability- and gender-related dimensions of law, policy and practice, with expertise across the fields of human rights law, disability law, consumer law, social security and social protection law, and feminist theory.

Yvette specialises in issues relating to the overlap and tensions between feminist and disability rights perspectives on care and support, the design of accessible information and processes for consumer decision-making, and the regulation and design of disability and mental health services and systems.

Yvette co-edited 'Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings: Legal, Policy and Practical Responses' with Prof Bernadette McSherry (Routledge, 2020) and her first book, 'Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism' is due from Cambridge University Press in April 2022.

Prior to her current role, Yvette was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Melbourne's Centre for AI and Digital Ethics and Melbourne Social Equity Institute. She has also worked in research, investigation and policy roles in non-profit and government bodies, including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Administrative Appeals Tribunal. She has also provided research support to the Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on topics including the right to education and the right to liberty and security of the person.