Miss Katie Butler
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit (Human Services)
Career Summary
Biography
Katie is a disabled community development practitioner, disability inclusion specialist and social researcher. Driven to advance equity, opportunity, and inclusion, she concurrently focuses on improving organisational policy and practice for inclusivity and working directly within diverse communities to build empowerment and community connectedness. Katie is passionate about working collaboratively with others to bring about social change, delivering innovative and meaningful outcomes, and contributing to and measuring progressive social impact.
Katie is a qualitative researcher in fields of disability community and organisational inclusion, social policy, and disability workforce and leadership. Katie is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Sydney. Applying action research, she is investigating an innovative method to build capability for disability inclusive practice and planning in large organisations, carrying out her fieldwork in a regional local council.
Katie has worked in the human services sector across local government, not-for-profit and higher education since 2012. She has extensive experience in community development, project development and management, evaluation, adult education, community engagement, advocacy and strategic planning. Katie holds a Bachelor of Social Science, Master of Disability Studies, and full professional membership with Developmental Educators Australia.
As a proud disabled professional and academic, Katie strongly advocates for and works to enable disabled leadership in research, policy development and service design and delivery. Katie is a member of the Disability Leadership Institute.
Katie holds both professional and academic roles at the University of Newcastle. She works as an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator. She has oversight of the Disability Confidence Training program, Accessibility Champions Network and is currently Co-chair of the Disability Inclusion Action Plan Subcommittee developing the University’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan. She is also employed as a sessional Academic, teaching courses in the Human Services major of the Bachelor of Social Science.
Qualifications
- Master of Disability Studies, Flinders University
- Bachelor of Social Science with Distinction, University of Newcastle
Keywords
- Inclusion
- community development
- disability
- disability employment
- local government
- social policy
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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330401 | Community planning | 25 |
440712 | Social policy | 25 |
420318 | People with disability | 50 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Journal article (2 outputs)
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2023 |
Butler K, 'Key achievements of New South Wales local government Disability Inclusion Action Plans in the era of inclusion policy and planning: A policy content analysis', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 58 398-411 (2023) [C1]
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2023 |
Davies K, Butler K, '(Under)valuing lived experience in the disability workforce: A snapshot of Australian job recruitment', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 58 425-440 (2023) [C1]
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Nova |
Other (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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2022 |
Davies K, Butler K, 'Working in the disability sector: Why is it important to include people with lived experience?', (2022)
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Nova |
Thesis / Dissertation (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2017 | Butler K, Factors that Contribute to Situations of Genuine Inclusion for People with Disability, Flinders University (2017) |
Miss Katie Butler
Position
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit
Academic Division
Focus area
Human Services
Contact Details
katie.butler@newcastle.edu.au |
Office
Room | SC409 |
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Building | Student Services Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |