Katie Ellis

Professor, Internet Studies, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University; Director, Centre for Culture and Technology

Katie Ellis is the director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University and an internationally recognized expert on disability and digital access. She has introduced important insights into the relationship between digital technology, disability and human rights to both the international and national research community (e.g., Ellis, 2019; Ellis, Goggin, & Kent, 2015). She has authored or edited 17 books, including two agenda-setting handbooks and one major works series. As the series editor of Routledge Research in Disability Media Studies, she is curating a series of books that set the agenda for the next era of disability media studies.

Ellis completed an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award on disability and digital television in 2018. From this foundation, she built the Critical Disability Research Network at Curtin, which synthesizes the research across various areas, including the Centre for Human Rights Education and the Centre for Culture and Technology.