Dr Rae West
Raelene West is passionate about creating positive change in the community services area. Her particular research areas are disability and aged care support service frameworks. Raelene has experience in disability advocacy, academic research and administrative work. She has a PhD in Sociology – Disability from the University of Melbourne, has been on numerous disability committees and was a recipient of a 2014 ‘field’ scholarship where she completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She is currently working as a Social Researcher at the Public Service Research Group – UNSW Canberra and at the Melbourne Disability Institute (MDI) – University of Melbourne. Her research interests are Ableism, Individualisied funding models, services and the market, technology use with services, Critical Disability Studies and Human Rights