Griffith University

Faculty Member, Griffith Law School

Other Affiliations: Griffith University, Socio-Legal Research Centre
University of Kelaniya, Medicine
The University of Queensland, Centre for the History of European Discourses

Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching Scholarship)

About

Professional Biography

Fiona Kumari Campbell has had a long standing interest in the civil rights of people from marginal backgrounds and the consequences of discrimination and social oppression. She is a scholar of disability studies and legal theory and is noted for the breadth of her published cross – disciplinary research. Fiona Kumari has written on issues related to disability—philosophy, Buddhism/Interfaith dialogue, law, and technology,Sri Lankan Studies as well as marginality (sexuality and race). After the successful publication of her book Contours of Ableism (Palgrave) in 2009 she is working on two books: “The Unveiling of (Dis)ability: Essays on Silence, Voice & Imprints” and “Crippin’ the Law: Jurisprudential Narratives of Impairment & Reasonableness”.

Fiona has been involved with the Socio-Legal Research Centre for since 2003 and shared Co-Directorship with Prof. William MacNeil of the Legal Theory Research Stream of that Centre. From 2003 until the end of 2010 Fiona was the Convenor of the Australasia’s largest postgraduate disability studies program in the School of Human Services & Social Work at Griffith’s Logan campus. In 2011 she joined the Griffith Law School. Fiona has 16 years teaching experience in sociological & legal theory, human rights, diversity studies, Australian politics and disability studies not only at Griffith University but also at Victoria University and the Queensland University of Technology.

Actively involved in a number of journals, Fiona Kumari is on the International Advisory Board of the Socio-Legal Review, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool), Ethnographica: Journal of Disability and Culture (Leuven, Belgium), the International Review of Disability Studies, and Associate Editor, Journal of Social Inclusion (Griffith). In 1998 La Trobe University awarded Fiona the D. M. Myers University Medal; the Deans' Medal (Faculty of Law & Management); the Jean Martin Prize in Sociology and the Blake, Dawson Waldron - 4th year Law Prize.

A disability activist, she has undertaken professional roles in the government and non-government sectors and provided regular advice to former Ministers of Community Services Senator Don Grimes & Dr Neil Blewitt and was integral to the establishment of attendant care in Australia.

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