Associate Professor Harpur has also led a range of projects, including an International Labour Organization project assessing labour rights in the South Pacific, including a particular focus on the rights of persons with disabilities.Īssociate Professor Harpur is a TEDx Speaker, ' Universities as Disability Champions of Change', and has given numerous keynotes and speeches, including addressing the International Labour Organization in Geneva.Īssociate Professor Harpur has a mixture of practice and research experience, having formerly practiced as a lawyer and continuing to work as an industrial relations special advisor in a national private practice, IRIQ Law, as a special advisor. 'His monograph, Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Opening the E-Book for the Print Disabled (2017), analyses the interaction between anti-discrimination and copyright laws, and his Ableism at Work, Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment 2019, analyses disability inequalities at work in several jurisdictions. He also sits on the Academic Board, the University Senate's sub-committee focusing on inclusion, and on the Senate Committee for Equity Diversity and Inclusion.Īssociate Professor Harpur has published monographs with Cambridge University Press. He chairs the UQ Disability Inclusion Group, which supports the university in its implementation of the UQ Disability Action Plan. In 2019 he was named a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. IncludeAbility is an initiative of the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) developed to increase meaningful employment opportunities for people with disability, and to close the gap in workforce participation between people with disability and people without disability. With the support of Vice-Chancellor Debbie Terry and Deputy Provost Pauline Ford the university continues as the first founding member from the higher education sector. This network has major Australian employers who are actively seeking to champion disability inclusion. In2021 Dr Harpur was awarded a 4 year Future Fellowship, commencing in 2022, with the Australian Research Council entitled " Normalizing Ability Diversity through Career Transitions: Disability at Work".ĭr Harpur is involved in higher education reforms, serving during 2023 on the Federal Education Minister's Universities Accord Ministerial Reference Group.ĭr Harpur is also an ambassador for the Australian Human Rights IncludeAbility Network. He is a former Fulbrighter, having been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Future Scholarship entitled "Universally Designed for Whom? Disability, the Law and Practice of Expanding the "Normal User". Following his work at Syracuse University, Associate Professor Harpur has been appointed an International Distinguished Fellow with the Burton Blatt Institute from 2015 onwards and a 2020 academic fellow of the Harvard Law School Project on Disabilities. He has previously held an academic fellowship with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and visiting positions with the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, Institute for Lifecourse & Society, National University of Ireland, Galway and with the Burton Blatt Institute, College of Law, Syracuse University, New York. He is currently an Associate with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and an International Distinguished Fellow with Burton Blatt Institute, College of Law, Syracuse University, New York. Current students Show Current students sub-navigationĪssociate Professor Paul Harpur ( introductory video) is a leading international and comparative disability rights advocate and legal academic.
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