Dr. Paul Harpur

Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland

Dr Paul Harpur is an Associate Professor with the University of Queensland Law School, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, former Paralympian, and chair of the University of Queensland Disability Inclusion Group. He has published several monographs with Cambridge University Press, as well as publishing widely in legal and disability studies journals in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

In 2019, Paul was awarded a Fulbright Future Scholarship that enabled him to visit Harvard Law School; he maintains ongoing fellowships with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and with the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. In 2022, Paul commenced an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship focused on higher education (Normalising Ability Diversity through Career Transitions: Disability at Work: FT210100335). He has also been named the 2022 Blind Australian of the Year.

Paul wishes to acknowledge the Turrbal and Jagera people, who are the traditional custodians of the land on which the University of Queensland is situated. - ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-3350-0381