Professor Karen Soldatic

Journal Articles

• Spurway, K., Sullivan, C., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W., Briskman, L. and Soldatic, K. (2023), '"I felt invisible" : First nations LGBTIQSB+ young people's experiences with health service provision in Australia', Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, vol 35, no 1 , pp 68 - 91.
• Fitts, M., Cullen, J., Kingston, G., Johnson, Y., Wills, E. and Soldatic, K. (2023), 'Understanding the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with traumatic brain injury through family violence in Australia : a qualitative study protocol', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol 20, no 2 .
• Howard-Wagner, D., Soldatic, K., Riemer, J., Leha, J., Mason, C., Goh, C., Hunt, J. and Gibson, J. (2023), 'Organisational fragility among urban FNOs in the era of new public management', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol 58, no 3 , pp 523 - 549.
• Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Spurway, K. (2023), '[In Press] Indigenous LGBTIQSB + people's experiences of family violence in Australia', Journal of Family Violence, .
• James, P., Lal, J., Liao, A., Magee, L. and Soldatic, K. (2023), '[In Press] Algorithmic decision-making in social work practice and pedagogy : confronting the competency/critique dilemma', Social Work Education, .
• Nectoux, S., Magee, L. and Soldatic, K. (2023), 'Sensing technologies, digital inclusion, and disability diversity', Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 28, no 5 .
• Sullivan, C., Spurway, K., Leha, J., Trewllyn, W. and Soldatic, K. (2023), 'The Dalarinji project - "Your Story" : a narrative synthesis', Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol 7, no 2 , pp 1 - 25.
• Fitts, M., Cullen, J., Kingston, G., Wills, E., Johnson, Y. and Soldatic, K. (2023), 'Using research feedback loops to implement a disability case study with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and service providers in regional and remote Australia', Health Sociology Review, vol 32, no 1 , pp 94 - 109.
• Sullivan, C., Tran, D., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Soldatic, K. (2023), ''This is our place, but we're the outsiders' : the navigation of identity and spaces of belonging by Indigenous LGBTIQ + women in Australia', Australian Geographer, vol 54, no 3 , pp 347 - 364.
• Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C., Coe, G., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Spurway, K. (2023), '[In Press] 'We never get a space to just have a good time together' : indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives', Journal of Youth Studies, .
• Fitts, M. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Who's caring for whom? : disabled Indigenous carers experiences of Australia's infrastructures of social protection', Journal of Family Studies, vol 28, no 2 , pp 477 - 492.
• Spurway, K., Soldatic, K., Briskman, L., Uink, B., Liddelow-Hunt, S., Hill, B. and Lin, A. (2022), 'The social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous LGBTQA+ young people : a global perspective', Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, vol 39, no 2 , pp 138 - 147.
• Soldatic, K., Briskman, L., Trewlynn, W., Leha, J. and Spurway, K. (2022), 'Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous gender and sexuality diverse youth : mapping the evidence', Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol 24, no 4 , pp 564 - 582.
• Goggin, G. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Automated decision-making, digital inclusion and intersectional disabilities', New Media and Society, vol 24, no 2 , pp 384 - 400.
• Soldatic, K. and Grech, S. (2022), 'Unchaining disability law : global considerations, limitations and possibilities in the Global South and East', AJIL Unbound, vol 116 , pp 74 - 78.
• Sullivan, C., Coe, G., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Trewlynn, W., Leha, J. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Mobility tactics : young LGBTIQ+ Indigenous Australians' belonging and connectedness', Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol 6, no 1 , pp 1 - 15.
• Sullivan, C., Spurway, K., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Soldatic, K. (2022), '"She's always been a fighter for me" : Indigenous mothers as advocates and defenders of their LGBTIQSB+ children', LGBTQ+ Family, vol 18, no 5 , pp 463 - 474.
• Robertson, S., Magee, L. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Intersectional inquiry, on the ground and in the algorithm', Qualitative Inquiry, vol 28, no 7 , pp 814 - 826.
• Briskman, L., Sullivan, C., Spurway, K., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Soldatic, K. (2022), '(Re)Claiming health : the human rights of young LGBTIQ+ Indigenous people in Australia', Health and Human Rights Journal, vol 24, no 1 , pp 35 - 47.
• Fitts, M., Cullen, J., Kingston, G., Wills, E. and Soldatic, K. (2022), '"I don't think it's on anyone's radar" : the workforce and system barriers to healthcare for Indigenous women following a traumatic brain injury acquired through violence in remote Australia', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol 19, no 22 .
• Sullivan, C., Tran, D., Trewlynn, W., Spurway, K., Leha, J., Briskman, L. and Soldatic, K. (2022), ''We want to help but we don't know what to do' : service providers working with Indigenous LGBTIQ+ youth in Australia', Sexes, vol 3, no 2 , pp 308 - 324.
• Thomassin, A., Nye, T., Nye, A., Carlson, L., Hunt, J., Spurway, K., Chatfield, J., Nye, J. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Environmental stewardship resurgence in Walbunja Land and sea country', Native Title Newsletter, vol 1 , pp 9 - 11.
• Howard-Wagner, D., Reimer, J., Leha, J., Mason, C., Evans, D., Soldatic, K., Hunt, J. and Gibson, J. (2022), 'Looking beyond Indigenous service delivery : the societal purpose of urban First Nations organisations', CAEPR Discussion Paper, vol 301 , pp 1 - 28.
• Kandasamy, N., Avery, L. and Soldatic, K. (2022), 'Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey', Social Inclusion, vol 10, no 4 , pp 194 - 199.
• Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W. and Spurway, K. (2021), 'Social inclusion and exclusion for First Nations LGBTIQ+ people in Australia', Social Inclusion, vol 9, no 2 , pp 1 - 6.
• Kandasamy, N., Perera, B. and Soldatic, K. (2021), 'COVID-19 from the margins : gendered-disability experiences in Sri Lanka', Disability and the Global South, vol 8, no 1 , pp 1923 - 1934.
• Mehrotra, N. and Soldatic, K. (2021), 'COVID-19 in South Asia : state practices, responses and the experiences of persons with disability within the region', Disability and the Global South, vol 8, no 1 , pp 1873 - 1879.
• Soldatic, K., Briskman, L., Trewlynn, W., Leha, J. and Spurway, K. (2021), 'Social exclusion/inclusion and Australian First Nations LGBTIQ+ young people's wellbeing', Social Inclusion, vol 9, no 2 , pp 42 - 51.
• Soldatic, K. and Fitts, M. (2020), 'Sorting yourself out of the system : everyday processes of elusive social sorting in Australia's disability social security regime for Indigenous Australians', Disability and Society, vol 35, no 3 , pp 347 - 365.
• Fitts, M. and Soldatic, K. (2020), 'Why extended time on Newstart is unsuitable for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with a disability', Australian Social Work, vol 73, no 2 , pp 191 - 203.
• Soldatic, K., Magee, L., James, P., Partoredjo, S. and Mann, J. (2020), 'Disability and migration in urban Australia : the case of Liverpool', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol 55, no 4 , pp 456 - 473.
• Soldatic, K. (2020), 'Book review: Mehrotra, N. (2020), Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives', Disablity and the Global South, vol 7, no 1 , pp 1 - 3.
• Perera, B., Kandasamy, N. and Soldatic, K. (2020), 'Disability exclusion during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Sri Lanka', University of Colombo Review (Series lll), vol 1, no 1 , pp 47 - 59.
• Soldatic, K. (2020), 'Disability's circularity : presence, absence and erasure in Australian settler colonial biopolitical population regimes', Studies in Social Justice, vol 14, no 2 , pp 306 - 320.
• Soldatic, K., Magee, L. and Robertson, S. (2019), 'Temporal negotiations of social inclusion : temporality, mobility, and encounter in disabled people's lifeworlds : commentary on "Using the concept of encounter" (Bigby & Wiesel, 2018)', Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, vol 6, no 1 , pp 52 - 57.
• Soldatic, K. (2019), 'Disability and Postsocialism', Disability and Society, vol 34, no 3 , pp 504 - 505.
• Kandasamy, N. and Soldatic, K. (2018), 'Implications for practice : exploring the impacts of Government contracts on refugee settlement services in rural and urban Australia', Australian Social Work, vol 71, no 1 , pp 111 - 119.
• Soldatic, K. (2018), 'Policy mobilities of exclusion : implications of Australian disability pension retraction for indigenous Australians', Social Policy and Society, vol 17, no 1 , pp 151 - 167.
• Soldatic, K. and Gilroy, J. (2018), 'Intersecting indigeneity, colonialisation and disability', Disability and the Global South, vol 5, no 2 , pp 1337 - 1343.
• Soldatic, K., Melboe, L., Kermit, P. and Somers, K. (2018), 'Challenges in global indigenous-disability comparative research, or, why nation-state political histories matter', Disability and the Global South, vol 5, no 2 , pp 1450 - 1471.
• Soldatic, K. (2018), 'Disability poverty and ageing in regional Australia : the impact of disability income reforms for indigenous Australians', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol 53, no 3 , pp 223 - 338.
• Fitts, M. and Soldatic, K. (2018), 'Disability income reform and service innovation : countering racial and regional discrimination', Global Medial Journal: Australian Edition, vol 12, no 1 .
• Uink, B. and Soldatic, K. (2018), 'Editorial reflections on Indigenous economic practices of contestation, resistance and wellbeing', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 12, no 1 .
• Kandasamy, N., Soldatic, K. and Samararatne, D. (2017), 'Peace, justice and disabled women's advocacy : Tamil women with disabilities in rural post-conflict Sri Lanka', Medicine, Conflict and Survival, vol 33, no 1 , pp 41 - 59.
• Soldatic, K., Somers, K., Spurway, K. and Toorn, G. (2017), 'Emplacing indigeneity and rurality in neoliberal disability welfare reform : the lived experience of Aboriginal people with disabilities in the West Kimberley, Australia', Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, vol 49, no 10 , pp 2342 - 2361.
• Spurway, K. and Soldatic, K. (2016), ''Life just keeps throwing lemons' : the lived experience of food insecurity among Aboriginal people with disabilities in the West Kimberley', Local Environment, vol 21, no 9 , pp 1118 - 1131.
• Didi, A., Soldatic, K., Frohmader, C. and Dowse, L. (2016), 'Violence against women with disabilities : is Australia meeting its human rights obligations?', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol 22, no 1 , pp 159 - 177.
• Dowse, L., Soldatic, K., Spangaro, J. and Toorn, G. (2016), 'Mind the gap : the extent of violence against women with disabilities in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol 51, no 3 , pp 341 - 359.
• Chataika, T., Mehrotra, N., Soldatic, K. and Kolarova, K. (2016), ''What kind of development are we talking about?' : a virtual roundtable with Tsitsi Chataika, Nilika Mehrotra, Karen Soldatic and Katerina Kolarova', Somatechnics, vol 6, no 2 , pp 142 - 158.
• Gartrell, A. and Soldatic, K. (2016), 'Rural women with disabilities in post-conflict zones : the forgotten sisters of Australia's disability-inclusive development', Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, vol 1, no 3 , pp 370 - 381.
• Toorn, G. and Soldatic, K. (2015), 'Disability, rights realisation, and welfare provisioning : what is it about Sweden?', Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, vol 2, no 2 , pp 109 - 115.
• Walsh, J., Spangaro, J. and Soldatic, K. (2015), 'Global understandings of domestic violence', Nursing and Health Sciences, vol 17, no 1 , pp 1 - 4.
• Soldatic, K. (2015), 'Postcolonial reproductions : disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia', Journal Social Identities, vol 21, no 1 , pp 53 - 68.
• Samararatne, D. and Soldatic, K. (2015), 'Inclusions and exclusions in law : experiences of women with disability in rural and war-affected areas in Sri Lanka', Disability and Society, vol 30, no 5 , pp 759 - 772.
• Soldatic, K., Somers, K., Buckley, A. and Fleay, C. (2015), ''Nowhere to be found' : disabled refugees and asylum seekers within the Australian resettlement landscape', Disability and the Global South, vol 2, no 1 , pp 501 - 522.
• Grech, S. and Soldatic, K. (2015), 'Disability and colonialism : (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities', Social Identities, vol 21, no 1 , pp 1 - 5.
• Soldatic, K., Toorn, G., Dowse, L. and Muir, K. (2014), 'Intellectual disability and complex intersections : marginalisation under the National Disability Insurance Scheme', Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, vol 1, no 1 , pp 6 - 16.
• Soldatic, K. and Grech, S. (2014), 'Transnationalising disability studies : rights, justice and impairment', Disability Studies Quarterly, vol 34, no 2 .
• Grover, C. and Soldatic, K. (2013), 'Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain', Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, vol 15, no 3 , pp 216 - 232.
• Soldatic, K. (2013), 'Appointment time : disability and neoliberal workfare temporalities', Critical Sociology, vol 39, no 3 , pp 405 - 419.
• Meekosha, H., Shuttleworth, R. and Soldatic, K. (2013), 'Disability and critical sociology : expanding the boundaries of critical social inquiry', Critical Sociology, vol 39, no 3 , pp 319 - 323.
• Soldatic, K. (2013), 'The transnational sphere of justice : disability praxis and the politics of impairment', Disability and Society, vol 28, no 6 , pp 744 - 755.
• Soldatic, K. and Meekosha, H. (2012), 'Moving the boundaries of feminist social work education with disabled people in the neoliberal era', Social Work Education, vol 31, no 2 , pp 246 - 252.
• Soldatic, K. and Pini, B. (2012), 'Continuity or change? : disability policy and the Rudd government', Social Policy and Society, vol 11, no 2 , pp 183 - 196.
• Soldatic, K., Meekosha, H. and Somers, K. (2012), 'Finding Ernesto : temporary labour migration and disabled children's health', International Journal of Population Research, vol 2012 .
• Soldatic, K. and Meekosha, H. (2012), 'The place of disgust : disability, class and gender in spaces of workfare', Societies, vol 2, no 3 , pp 139 - 156.
• Meekosha, H. and Soldatic, K. (2011), 'Human rights and the global South : the case of disability', Third World Quarterly, vol 32, no 8 , pp 1383 - 1397.
• Soldatic, K. and Pini, B. (2010), 'Exploring disability', Health Sociology Review, vol 19, no 3 , pp 399 - 400.
• Soldatic, K. and Chapman, A. (2010), 'Surviving the assault? : the Australian disability movement and the neoliberal workfare state', Social Movement Studies, vol 9, no 2 , pp 139 - 154.
• Soldatic, K. and Biyanwila, J. (2010), 'Tsunami and the construction of disabled Southern body', Global South SEPHIS e-Magazine, vol 6, no 3 , pp 75 - 84.
• Soldatic, K. and Fiske, L. (2009), 'Bodies 'locked up' : intersections of disability and race in Australian immigration', Disability and Society, vol 24, no 3 , pp 289 - 301.
• Soldatic, K. and Pini, B. (2009), 'The three Ds of welfare reform : disability, disgust and deservingness', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol 15, no 1 , pp 77 - 96.