Professor Karen Soldatic is a leading international scholar of disability, marginality and global inequality. Her research uses a broad lens to explore how social, cultural and political factors influence health and community wellbeing. She has extensive expertise collaborating directly with marginalized communities that experience poor health outcomes due to intensive social, emotional, cultural and economic inequality. Over the years, her unique empirical work has helped bridge numerous divides, resulting in diverse communities gaining more equitable access to disability, health and social service institutions across Australia, South Asia and South-East Asia.
Her work is internationally renowned and impactful in informing global disability and inequality policy debates, advocacy, and research.
Through numerous projects, she has developed long-term partnerships with industry, public institutions and service providers across scale. These partnerships comprise a wide range of organizations including:
1. Large multinational corporations such as Microsoft UK
2. Global macro policy institutes such as NATO, United Nations and Minority Rights Group
3. Small, precariously funded service providers such as Diversity Arts Australia, Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association, BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation and the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence.
Experience
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2024–presentCanada Excellence Research Chair, Health Equity and Community Wellbeing, School of Disability Studies, Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University
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2022–2024Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
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2018–2021Associate professor, Institute for Culture and Society, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
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2016–2019ARC DECRA Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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2014–2016National Director of Teaching, Centre for Social Impact, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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2012–2014Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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2010–2012Lecturer in Disability Rights, Curtin University of Technology
Education
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2010UWA, PhD
Professional Memberships
- The Australian Sociological Association
- Toronto, Canada
- Website
- @kazzak45
- Article Feed
- ksoldatic@torontomu.ca
- ORCID
- Joined
