Welcome Dr. Talitha Kingsmill

Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability, Griffith University would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Dr. Talitha Kingsmill, Research Fellow. Dr. Talitha Kingsmill is a Non-Executive Director, consultant, educator and solicitor with 25 years’ experience across the private, public and NFP sectors in law, education, educational leadership, research, digital citizenship, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and policy development.

With 18 years of experience working and raising a family while living with a vision disability, Talitha is a passionate advocate for equitable, accessible opportunities for all.

Talitha believes that access in all its forms is fundamental to equitable opportunity so that individuals may live their best lives. Her lived and professional experiences provide rich insights to the confronting and very real challenges and obstacles for people living with disability and equip Talitha to be a powerful and articulate disability and inclusion advocate.

Talitha’s doctoral research concerned the integration of digital citizenship (safe, responsible and respectful online engagement) in secondary school curriculum. She has published and presented within Australia and internationally in the field of building individual and collective digital citizenship capacity. In 2017, Talitha was awarded an Australian Council for Educational Leaders Research in Educational Leadership and Management Award for exceptional academic achievement in advanced studies in educational leadership.

Talitha understands that a collective voice achieved through consultation and collaboration is powerful, and passionately advocates for this.

Dr. Kingsmill will be working with Prof. Elizabeth Kendall to establish and develop the Queensland Disability Research Network (QDRN) – an enterprise led by researchers with disability and researchers with a particular focus or expertise in the disability sector across Queensland universities.

FIND OUT MORE:

https://qdn.org.au/meet-your-nominees/dr-talitha-kingsmill/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tkingsmill/

Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability:

https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/inclusive-futures-reimagining-disability

CONTACT:

t.kingsmill@griffith.edu.au or inclusivefutures@griffith.edu.au or qdrn@griffith.edu.au