- Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing; Professor, School of Disability Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
Karen Soldatić is Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing and Professor in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is an international scholar of disability, marginality, and global inequality. Her research on disability and processes of inequality builds on her twenty years of experience as an international, national, and state‐based policy analyst, researcher, and educator. She obtained her PhD (Distinction) in 2010 from the University of Western Australia. She was awarded a Fogarty Foundation Excellence in Education Fellowship for 2006–2009, a British Academy International Fellowship in 2012, a fellowship at The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University (2011–2012), and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2016–2019). Currently, she is an Extraordinary Professor in Disability & Rehabilitation, Stellenbosch University and sits on the Boards of Governance for Diversity Arts, Australia and Wellesley Institute, Canada.
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
Contact Karen for
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- Research supervision
- Location: Toronto, Canada
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