Tuesday 26 November, 1.30-3.00pm, Kensington Campus (venue TBC)
Join us on campus to watch this livestream of the Disability Leadership Oration 2024, featuring Dr Scott Avery. Hosted by The Disability Leadership Institute, the Oration is centred around IDPwD (International Day of People with Disability) each year to lead the discussion on disability leadership and play a role in setting the national agenda.
A thought provoking talk that sparks conversation and puts disability leadership into the centre of things, each year a prominent disability leader shares their perspective on disability leadership, where it is going and what it looks like. Register here
About the 2024 speaker
Dr Scott Avery is a professor of Indigenous disability health and wellbeing in the School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney. He is an Aboriginal man descendant from the Worimi people and is profoundly deaf.
Dr Scott (as he prefers to be known) is a recognised educator, researcher and policy adviser on Indigenous cultural approaches for the inclusion of people with disability. He has extensive experience in conducting community-based research and policy in Indigenous and disability organisations, and is the ‘Professor in Residence’ at the First Peoples Disability Network, an Indigenous Disabled Peoples Organisation. His publication 'Culture is Inclusion: A narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability'(2018) has influenced national policy across Closing the Gap, Australia’s Disability Strategy, and the Disability Royal Commission. He has been appointed as an expert advisor to numerous Government bodies and is a director on the board of disability service provider Achieve Australia Ltd. He was appointed Ambassador for the International Day of People with Disability in 2023. Register here