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Lecturer
BA (Hons), Dip Ed, LLB (Hons), PhD (UQ)
Elizabeth Dickson joined the staff of the Law School at QUT in January 2006. She had previously worked in the Law School at the University of Queensland. She is also a qualified teacher and has taught in schools from both the state and independent education sectors. At QUT, Elizabeth teaches Legal Institutions and Method, Contract Law and Discrimination Law. She is also an experienced lecturer in Tort Law.
Elizabeth is a member of the Law Faculty Equity Committee and is a Discrimination Contact Officer for the QUT community.
Elizabeth’s research interests are in the areas of discrimination law and education law and she has published widely in these areas. Her PhD thesis involved an analysis of the effectiveness of discrimination law in delivering equality of opportunity in education to people with disabilities.
Elizabeth is a member of the Executive Committee of the Queensland Chapter of the Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association and, with Professor Joy Cumming of Griffith University, is co-editor of the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education.
Research interests:
- Education law
- Discrimination law
- People with disabilities, rights and the law
- Children, rights and the law
PhD Thesis
Dickson, Elizabeth, Equality of Opportunity for All? An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) as a Tool for the Delivery of Equality of Opportunity in Education to People with Disabilities (2007)
Available via the Australian Digital Theses Database at http://adt.caul.edu.au/
Select Publications:
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Understanding Disability: An Analysis of the Influence of the Social Model of Disability in the Drafting of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) and in its Interpretation and Application’ (2003) 8 Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 45
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Disability Discrimination, the Unjustifiable Hardship Exemption and Students with Disability Related Problem Behaviour’ (2004) 9(2) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 37
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Disability Discrimination in Education: Purvis v New South Wales (Department of Education and Training), amendment of the education provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the formulation of Disability Standards for Education’ (2005) 24(1) University of Queensland Law Journal 213
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘The Instruction of Students with Hearing Impairments in Auslan: Hurst and Devlin v Education Queensland’ (2005) 10(1) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 95
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Coping, Complying and Indirect Discrimination: Hurst v State of Queensland’ (2006) 10(2)&11(1) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 103
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Disability Standards for Education and the Requirement of Reasonable Adjustment’ (2006) 11(2) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 23
- Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Disability Standards for Education and Reasonable Adjustment in the Tertiary Education Sector’ (2007) 12(2) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 25
- Cumming, Joy and Dickson, Elizabeth, ‘Equity in assessment: Discrimination and disability issues from an Australian legal perspective’ (2007) 19(3&4) Education and the Law 201
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