Research Focus:
Disability and aged care services (NDIS and CDC); ableism; Critical Disability Studies; human rights; social inclusion
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Raelene West is passionate about creating positive social change. Raelene has lived experience of disability, becoming a quadriplegic as a result of a car accident 20 years ago. Her research areas include examination of support service frameworks for People with Disabilities and Older Persons, ableism, social inclusion and human rights. She has a PhD in Sociology – Disability from the University of Melbourne, has been on numerous disability advocacy committees and was the recipient of the 2014 field scholarship where she completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment associated with Disability Workforce Training. She is currently working as a social researcher at the new Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University.
Raelene also has lived experience of utilisation of disability support services from both traditional and online service provider platforms. Her recent work includes a contribution to a report on ‘Mergers, Amalgamations and Acquisitions in the Australian Not-for-Profit Human Services Sector’ with RMIT University School of Business-GAL and CPA Australia, and assisted with formulation of disability workforce report ‘MAKING IT WORK – A workforce guide for disability service providers’ as a part of implementation of NDIS.
She coauthored an evaluation report for the Financial Consumer Rights Council (FCRC) Vic ‘Dignity and Debt – Older Persons in Financial Hardship’ and has authored papers in disability field on theoretical areas such as human rights and health, marketisation, NDIS frameworks, individualised funding and emerging online uber-style service markets.
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