Katie Ellis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3591174 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katie Ellis |
| PRENOMES | Katie |
| SOBRENOME | Ellis |
| ASSINATURA | ELLIS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9560-2378 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Digital innovation and disability inclusion
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a persistent innovation–inclusion paradox: while states rapidly deployed digital solutions for pandemic management, they often failed to prioritise accessibility and disability inclusion from the outset. This article takes Australia as its case study to interrogate the country's response to the pandemic and the digital strategies adopted, focusing on the inclusion of people with disability. Through an analysis of th…
Parallel Pandemic Realities
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a structural universe segregation in Australian emergency communication. While we all experienced the pandemic, certain groups were more disadvantaged than others. People with disability, for example, lived in parallel information universes disconnected from the mainstream information universe where critical pandemic information was freely available. Throughout the pandemic, information was provided in …
The Pandemic Preferred User
As COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, universities acted quickly to move their core business of teaching and research online. Classes shifted to platforms such as Zoom, Webex, Collaborate and Microsoft Teams and teachers and students alike were expected to adapt. And they did. This paper draws on critical disability studies to offer a conceptual and theoretical analysis of a deeply problematic aspect of the rapid move to online education in respon…
Community Accessibility
Imagining a future family
Although a significant number of care experienced parents have their own children taken into care, most go on to parent without intervention from services, suggesting a complex relationship between experiences of parenting in childhood and parenting practices in adulthood. This research provides unique and compelling evidence that directly challenges deficit-based narratives, illuminating the agency and potential of care-experienced individuals. …
A disability-led disability inclusion strategy for the higher education sector
Governance in Social Research
This paper considers the role of governance within social research projects which seek to involve or deliver benefits to marginalised community groups. We argue that the increasing ‘projectification’ of research and research institutions has not translated to outcomes which meet the needs of marginalised community members. Governance of research projects, for which we propose a formal definition, should be a means of remedying this, but it is an …
A series of lively impressions
This article investigates the multiple values of audio description (AD) across an increasingly discerning, broad and multi-platform audience of video consumers. While other accessibility features, such as closed captions, are an established aspect of accessible video consumption, AD has more recently emerged as a socially and culturally significant feature for audiences, both with and without vision-based disabilities. This article offers a revie…
Auditory Learner
Introduction This study examines the ways in which students and staff in higher education use and engage in audio, both in everyday life and within the university setting. Specifically, we explore if the increasingly diverse student population utilise audio as part of a personalised approach to learning. Increasing student engagement in online delivery through a personalised approach to learning is a vital area of focus in contemporary pedagogy i…
Resilience, higher education and widening participation
Over 80,000 children in England were being looked after in Local Authority care in 2020 and a further 40,000 people were defined as ‘care leavers’. Although a significant body of research highlights the prevalence of educational low achievement in the care experienced population, official government figures show that around 13% of care experienced pupils progress to higher education by the age of 19. In a climate of ‘widening participation’ in wh…
Child Sexual Abuse in Nigeria
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a major social and public health issue that creates short- and long-lasting impacts on victims, families, and society. While global researchers have considered the topic of CSA since the 19th century, the Nigerian context has been largely ignored. Yet, without sufficient evidence and understanding, making changes to practices and policies becomes almost impossible. The review aimed to gain insights into the nature and …
Optimizing Older Adult Mental Health in Support of Healthy Ageing
This paper describes a pluralistic framework to inform transformative change across community and healthcare domains to optimize the mental health of older adults in support of healthy ageing. An extensive review and analysis of the literature informed the creation of a framework that contextualizes the priority areas of the WHO Decade of Health Ageing (ageism, age-friendly environments, long-term care, and integrated care) with respect to older …
Care and education
Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people
Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes
Meeting the challenges of participation? Care experienced people’s involvement in social work practice and policy development
"I Love Every Part of You"
Introduction The Owl House is an animated television series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2020 to 2023. The series follows Luz, a teenage Dominican-American human who finds a portal to the Demon Realm. She lands on the Boiling Isles, an island archipelago populated with magical creatures. There, Luz befriends a middle-aged witch named Edalyn “Eda” Clawthorne (also known as Eda the Owl Lady), and her housemate/adoptive son King, a cute dog…
From Bondi to Fairfield
The use of media sources increases exponentially during a health crisis or disaster. Similarly, digital health information and misinformation can spread quickly through social media. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the press conference has been one of the federal, state, and territory governments’ key outlets for providing updates, containing misinformation, reassuring constituents, and articulating public health measures. This article f…
Researching Sensitive Topics With Children and Young People
Despite representing a vast and global concern, the narratives of children who experience child sexual exploitation (CSE) and access associated services are marginalised within research. As an outcome, relatively little is known about how children cope with the impact and consequences of their experiences. This paper draws together methodological insights from researchers reflecting upon three distinct pieces of qualitative fieldwork conducted wi…
Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts
The practice of allies – the non-disabled producers, directors, curators and facilitators who support the work of disabled arts and media makers – has not been subject to dedicated analysis. In this article, we argue that cultural safety, respect, and trust is a precursor to good allyship in the creative industries. We outline factors that influence feelings of safety or non-safety for disabled arts and media makers, and the way the legacy of the…
The experience of structural burden for culturally and linguistically diverse family carers of people living with dementia in Australia
Evidence suggests that family carers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people living with dementia experience higher stress and unmet need than the general Australian population. These disparities are often framed as the result of CALD communities failing to seek formal support. Challenging this, we draw on the concept of 'structural burden' to explore how the complexity of health and aged systems contribute to the burden that CALD …
Subverting the Monster
Introduction The blockbuster DreamWorks film Shrek is a play on the classic fairy tale narrative, where the hero, atop his noble steed, rescues the cursed princess from a dragon-guarded tower. Except the hero is an Ogre, the steed is a talking donkey, the dragon just wants to be loved, and, when they finally break the curse, the princess permanently transforms into an Ogre. From the opening scene, the first movie subverts the viewers’ expectation…
Smartphones, Disability and the Australian Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic for People who are Blind and with Low Vision
This paper offers insight into and analysis of the disparate and diverse experiences of Australians with disability, at the intersections of technology and geography during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on interviews with the blind and low vision community we identify a significant cross-generational uptake of smartphones. Participants demonstrate a reflexive and creative use of these devices when faced with reduced accessibility, and the signifi…
Turning 18 in specialised residential therapeutic care
This article describes research undertaken in 2018 in a therapeutic residential home for young women with multiple and complex needs in out‐of‐home care in England. Based on qualitative interviews with five young women, aged 16–18, and four professionals working with the home, the article analyses the under‐researched leaving care needs and experiences of this group of young women. The findings highlight the tensions between notions of childhood …
Boundary Crossers
In negotiating cultural, social, and professional boundaries, providers undertake multidimensional and complex work that involves education, advocacy, negotiation, navigation, creativity, and emotional engagement. This work is largely undervalued but offers a model of care that facilitates social and community development as well as service integration across health, aged care, and social services
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Disability, communication, and life itself in the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article we offer an analysis of a deeply problematic and troubling dual aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic: how disability is being understood within normative accounts of health and medicine to frame, interpret, and respond to its spread and implications; what are the terms of inclusion and exclusion in altered social life in the COVID crisis; and how people with disabilities fare. We find disturbing indications of disablism and oppressive …
Children's snacking, children's food
This work considers the construction of children's food and children's eating practices, in the narratives of children, aged 11–12, and their parents, and explores what these constructions reveal about child–adult relations and the nature of family life. It argues that, implicit to the differentiation of children's and adult's food and eating practices within families are generationally nuanced food moralities. We suggest that the day-to-day, ong…
The experience of structural burden for culturally and linguistically diverse family carers of people living with dementia in Australia
Evidence suggests that family carers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people living with dementia experience higher stress and unmet need than the general Australian population. These disparities are often framed as the result of CALD communities failing to seek formal support. Challenging this, we draw on the concept of 'structural burden' to explore how the complexity of health and aged systems contribute to the burden that CALD …
Disability and the Media
1. Introduction: Why Does Disability Matter for Media? 2. Understanding Disability and Media 3. Media's Role in Disability 4. The News on Disability 5. Beyond Disabled Broadcasting 6. Disability and Media Work 7. Conclusion: Doing Justice to Disability and Media
Contested Vulnerability
Figures from 2015 show that two hundred and five children entered secure accommodation from England and Wales. 47% were placed because they were on remand or sentenced for committing a serious offence. 43% were placed by social services under a child welfare order. The remaining 10% were secured by their local authority on criminal justice grounds. This paper uses the example of girls in secure care to explore understandings that are applied to y…
Boundary Crossers
In negotiating cultural, social, and professional boundaries, providers undertake multidimensional and complex work that involves education, advocacy, negotiation, navigation, creativity, and emotional engagement. This work is largely undervalued but offers a model of care that facilitates social and community development as well as service integration across health, aged care, and social services
Researching Sensitive Topics With Children and Young People
Despite representing a vast and global concern, the narratives of children who experience child sexual exploitation (CSE) and access associated services are marginalised within research. As an outcome, relatively little is known about how children cope with the impact and consequences of their experiences. This paper draws together methodological insights from researchers reflecting upon three distinct pieces of qualitative fieldwork conducted wi…
Disability and Digital Television Cultures
Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception. Television, as a central medium of communication, has marginalized people with disability through both representation on screen and the lack of accessibility to this medium. With accessibility options becoming availa…
Three decades of misrecognition
In Australia, the Disability Discrimination Act and associated Educational Standards prevent educational institutions from treating people with disability less favourably than those without disability – directly or indirectly. However, people with disability are still subject to both economic and cultural disadvantage in Australian higher education policy. In this article we describe this as a ‘recognition–redistribution dilemma’, whereby this po…
He's got some nasty impression of me he has’
In 2010, 260 children entered secure accommodation. Of these, 51 per cent were placed because they were on remand or sentenced for committing a serious offence. Thirty seven per cent were placed by social services for their own protection under a child welfare order and the remaining 12 per cent were placed under both categories concurrently. Secure accommodation is therefore used to simultaneously hold children sentenced for punishment with thos…
From Bondi to Fairfield
The use of media sources increases exponentially during a health crisis or disaster. Similarly, digital health information and misinformation can spread quickly through social media. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the press conference has been one of the federal, state, and territory governments’ key outlets for providing updates, containing misinformation, reassuring constituents, and articulating public health measures. This article f…
Video on Demand for People with Disability
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
People with disability and new disaster communications
This article explores how a lack of access to increasingly complex and overlapping digital communications platforms in times of disaster for people with disabilities has the potential to make already life-threatening situations considerably more dangerous. As we are increasingly coming to rely on a social media mash-up of digital platforms to assist in communications during disaster situations, the issue of accessibility for people with disabilit…
Disability Media Participation
This article discusses participatory media from a critical disability perspective. It discusses the relative absence of explicit discussion and research on disability in the literatures on community, citizen and alternative media. By contrast, disability has emerged as an important element of participatory cultures and digital technologies. To explore disability participatory cultures, the article offers analysis of case studies, including disabi…
Community Accessibility
In his book on new forms of personal expression and communication on the Internet, The Future of Reputation, Daniel Solove reminds us that "people scattered across the globe can now all congregate together in cyberspace" (2007:33
Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts
The practice of allies – the non-disabled producers, directors, curators and facilitators who support the work of disabled arts and media makers – has not been subject to dedicated analysis. In this article, we argue that cultural safety, respect, and trust is a precursor to good allyship in the creative industries. We outline factors that influence feelings of safety or non-safety for disabled arts and media makers, and the way the legacy of the…
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Care(ful) relationships
Secure children's homes are used to accommodate children aged 10–16 under two main categories; while half are sentenced after committing a serious offence, the other half are placed because there are serious concerns around their safety in the community. Secure children's homes are prized within the secure estate, and they administer complex therapeutic support to ‘the most vulnerable’ young people, however little is known about the experiences o…
Contours of ableism
Fiona Kumari, Campbell, London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 231 pp., US$85, (hardback),, ISBN 9780230579286 Disability, as a concept, is both everywhere and nowhere. Generally considered
Care and education
Meeting the challenges of participation? Care experienced people’s involvement in social work practice and policy development
Students with Disabilities and eLearning in Australia
The Case for Captioned Lectures in Australian Higher Education
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Television's Transition to the Internet
Whereas entertainment has featured negatively in the broader NBN debate currently occurring in Australia, within the disability sector it has been recognised as revolutionary. Government, industry and technical analysts describe digital television, particularly that delivered via broadband, as potentially enabling to people with vision and hearing impairments through the more widespread provision of accessibility features such as audio descriptio…
Children's snacking, children's food
This work considers the construction of children's food and children's eating practices, in the narratives of children, aged 11–12, and their parents, and explores what these constructions reveal about child–adult relations and the nature of family life. It argues that, implicit to the differentiation of children's and adult's food and eating practices within families are generationally nuanced food moralities. We suggest that the day-to-day, ong…
Contours of ableism
Fiona Kumari, Campbell, London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 231 pp., US$85, (hardback),, ISBN 9780230579286 Disability, as a concept, is both everywhere and nowhere. Generally considered
Community Accessibility
In his book on new forms of personal expression and communication on the Internet, The Future of Reputation, Daniel Solove reminds us that "people scattered across the globe can now all congregate together in cyberspace" (2007:33
Disability and New Media
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely techni…
Disability and new media
Being Judged, Being Assessed
Research from the Economic and Social Research Council programme on Pathways Into and Out of Crime prioritised young people’s ‘voices’ in exploring experiences of crime and a range of intervention services. Drawing on data from interviews with 110 young people, this paper explores their perspectives of professional assessment. Embedded within neo‐liberal youth welfare policies are a number of contradictions. Policies encourage ‘individualisation’…
Transgressive bodies
Niall Richardson, Surrey and Burlington, Ashgate, 2010, 237 pp., ISBN 9780754676225 (hbk) Transgressive Bodies is premised on two key points. First, that film, television and the Internet are a mod
The Voice Australia (2012)
This paper examines themes that emerge in discussion of Season 1 The Voice Australia's vision-impaired contestant Rachael Leahcar on The Voice Australia's official YouTube channel. The essay uses Pierre Lévy's conception of information utopia characterized by collective intelligence as a mechanism to examine the way representations of disability are responded to online. The paper outlines three broad themes that emerged in the available social me…
Television's Transition to the Internet
Whereas entertainment has featured negatively in the broader NBN debate currently occurring in Australia, within the disability sector it has been recognised as revolutionary. Government, industry and technical analysts describe digital television, particularly that delivered via broadband, as potentially enabling to people with vision and hearing impairments through the more widespread provision of accessibility features such as audio descriptio…
Digital Television Flexibility
Flexibility for many viewers comes from digital technologies and their interaction with television broadcasting. Significantly, as television is switched to digital transmissions, viewers with disability have the potential to experience flexibility in the form of accessibility features such as audio descriptions, captions, lip-reading avatars, signing avatars, spoken subtitles and clean audio. This flexibility may in fact provide some people with…
Accessible television
As television moves beyond digital broadcast modes of distribution towards online modes of delivery, this paper considers the opportunities and challenges for people with disabilities. With accessibility relying on a complex mix of regulation, legislation and industry innovation, the paper questions whether predictions of improved accessibility are an automatic outcome of new television technologies. The paper asks ‘where to next?’ for disability…
Disability and the Internet in 2015
Earlier this decade, the emerging field of disability media began to focus on the Internet and people with disabilities. Books such as Paul T. Jaeger’s Disability and the Internet in 2012 and Disability and new media by this issue’s editors in 2011 both extended earlier work in this field particularly Goggin and Newell’s 2003 Digital disability.This new focus incorporated changes to the environment with the hype around Web 2.0, the rise of online…
People with disability and new disaster communications
This article explores how a lack of access to increasingly complex and overlapping digital communications platforms in times of disaster for people with disabilities has the potential to make already life-threatening situations considerably more dangerous. As we are increasingly coming to rely on a social media mash-up of digital platforms to assist in communications during disaster situations, the issue of accessibility for people with disabilit…
Disability and the Media
1. Introduction: Why Does Disability Matter for Media? 2. Understanding Disability and Media 3. Media's Role in Disability 4. The News on Disability 5. Beyond Disabled Broadcasting 6. Disability and Media Work 7. Conclusion: Doing Justice to Disability and Media
Disability and Popular Culture
Disability Media Participation
This article discusses participatory media from a critical disability perspective. It discusses the relative absence of explicit discussion and research on disability in the literatures on community, citizen and alternative media. By contrast, disability has emerged as an important element of participatory cultures and digital technologies. To explore disability participatory cultures, the article offers analysis of case studies, including disabi…
He's got some nasty impression of me he has’
In 2010, 260 children entered secure accommodation. Of these, 51 per cent were placed because they were on remand or sentenced for committing a serious offence. Thirty seven per cent were placed by social services for their own protection under a child welfare order and the remaining 12 per cent were placed under both categories concurrently. Secure accommodation is therefore used to simultaneously hold children sentenced for punishment with thos…
Video on Demand for People with Disability
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
Chinese Social Media
Chinese Social Media Today
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concerns Chinese social media and the public and looks at Chinese social media and disability. It argues that social media is merely a continued extension of the development of the internet and how it is used. The book explores how "Chinese grassroots non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have taken a non-profit public approach t…
The Case for Captioned Lectures in Australian Higher Education
Access for everyone? Australia’s ‘streaming wars’ and consumers with disabilities
This article is concerned with the recent rise in popularity of video-on-demand services as a form of entertainment in Australia and its premise of offering freedom to watch whatever, whenever. The article investigates how the entry of video-on-demand services into the Australian television market has both enabled and disabled televisual content access, focusing on how people with disability access video-on-demand content and the hardware and sof…
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Disability and media activism
This chapter provides an overview and introduction to disability and media activism. It also provides a brief introduction to understanding disability and associated categories, such as impairment, as socially shaped and culturally located phenomena that are as much subject to power relations as they are bodily and materially constituted. The chapter discusses the emergence of media activism, especially in the mid-twentieth century, across a numb…
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies
This chapter explores the historical foundations of British disability studies, arguing that social model ideas developed in the 1970s continue to be of relevance today. The chapter begins with a note on terminology before outlining the origins and development of disability studies and, in particular, the social model of disability in the UK. From the outset, social model ideas were widely endorsed by wheelchair users and people with physical imp…
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