國際籌備委員會
Board Members
Dr Simon Prideaux
University of Leeds,England
Dr Simon Prideaux is an Associate Professor of Social Welfare, Disability Studies and Crime in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds (England). He has written, co-authored and edited four books entitled Crimes of States and Powerful Elites (forthcoming, 2021), State Crime and Immorality: The Corrupting Influence of the Powerful (2016), Understanding Disability Policy (2012), Not So New Labour: A Sociological Critique of New Labour’s Policy and Practice (2005). He has also published in the journals Social Policy & Administration, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Political Quarterly, Disability & Society and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Talks and/or keynote speeches have been given in Canada (Toronto), the Czech Republic (Olumouc), Finland (Mikkeli), Japan (Osaka and Tokyo), Malta (Saint Julians), Portugal (Braga and Lisbon), Slovakia (Tatranska Lomnica), Taiwan (Chun Cheng, Kaohsiung and Taipei) and the UK (Bath and Lancaster).
Dr Karen Soldatic
Western Sydney University,
Australia
Dr Karen Soldatic is an Associate Professor of Social Welfare, Disability Studies and Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University (Australia). She has written, co-authored and edited ten books with her most recent including: Human Rights and Social Work (forthcoming, 2022), Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: Classificatory Logic and Systems of Governance (2022), Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka (2021), Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy: Our Way (2020), Disability & Neoliberal State Formations (2019). She was awarded a Fogarty Foundation Excellence in Education Fellowship for 2006–2009, a British Academy International Fellowship in 2012, a fellowship at The Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University (2011–2012) and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2016–2019) examining the lived implications of poverty and inequality for Indigenous persons living with disability with the intensification of neoliberal welfare retraction. Her research on global welfare regimes builds on her 20 years of experience as an international (Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia), national and state-based senior policy analyst, researcher and practitioner. She obtained her PhD (Distinction) in 2010 from the University of Western Australia.
Dr Pey-Chun Pan
National Pingtung University of
Science and Technology,Taiwan
Dr Pey-Chun Pan is an Assistant Professor of Department of Social Work, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Taiwan). Her research is on accessibility, transport policy of disabled people and the social movement of people with Hansen’s Disease in Taiwan. She has joined several research projects including one on independent living policy, reasonable accommodation on health issue and the development of Taiwan human rights indicators of CRPD. She is a horticultural therapist as well. She has published 4 book chapters on disability and also published in the Community Development Journal Quarterly, the Journal of Disability Research and Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies.