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Episode 4 - Human Rights and Technology: Leading Organisational Change

26 June 2024
 

We are delighted to meet with Dr Paul Harpur. In our conversation, we talk about disability rights and outline how technology can be the great equaliser and force for good when you have human rights embedded in your product design.

Hosts

Myfanwy Wallwork
Vice President Regulatory Compliance - Global LexisNexis

 

Myfanwy Wallwork is the Vice President, Regulatory Compliance Global, leading an international cross-functional team comprising product, content, sales and marketing. Regulatory Compliance is an obligation register and alerting solution designed to assist compliance and legal professionals understand and demonstrate their compliance with multiple legal and regulatory instruments.

Myfanwy is also the Executive Sponsor for LexisNexis Australia’s Rule of Law program and has worked with government organisations across the Pacific, including the Australian Human Rights Commission, to ensure that legal materials are accessible and actionable. One of her notable roles was part of the Expert Reference Group for the Human Rights and Technology Project, led by the Commission. Following the release of the final report, Myfanwy is keen to further this work by demonstrating the financial and non-financial benefits of adhering to international human rights principles within governance frameworks.

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