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Professor Indigenous Disability Health and Wellbeing, University of Technology Sydney

Dr Scott Avery is an Indigenous disability educator, researcher and policy advisor in the School of Public Health, UTS, Australia. He is an Aboriginal man descendant from the Worimi people and is profoundly deaf.

Dr Scott (as he prefers to be known) has extensive experience in conducting community-based research and policy in Indigenous and disability organisations and is the research and education partner for the First Peoples Disability Network. He has authored the publication 'Culture is Inclusion: A narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability' (2018) based on his research. His community-based and intersectional approach has influenced national policy across Closing the Gap, the Australian Disability Strategy, and the Disability Royal Commission. He has been appointed as an expert advisor to numerous Government bodies including the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the Australian Bureau of Statistics, National Disability Research Partnership, National Disability Data Asset, and the Research Advisory Committee of the Lowitja Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Professor, UTS
  • 2020–2023
    Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University
  • 2023–2023
    Associate professor, Western Sydney University

Education

  • 2019 
    University of Technology Sydney, PhD
  • 2008 
    University of Sydney, Master of Business Law
  • 2001 
    University of Sydney, Master Applied Science
  • 1994 
    University of Wollongong, Graduate Diploma Law
  • 1990 
    University of Wollongong, Bachelor of Commerce (Hons)

Publications

  • 2018
    Culture is Inclusion: A Narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with Disability, First Peoples Disability Network (Australia), Sydney