Dr. Georgia Van Toorn

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Georgia Van Toorn is a political sociologist with a specialization in international social policy, politics, disablement, and social justice. Her research focuses on global transformations in welfare governance, particularly the processes of marketization and commodification of social care, as well as the growing impact of data analytics and algorithmic decision-making in the public sector. Van Toorn has centered her work on the changing nature of disability welfare and social reproduction, with particular emphasis on neoliberal contexts in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Politics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and serves as an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her recent projects, including her research fellowship at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, investigate the social justice implications of algorithmic systems and seek to promote disability justice through participatory research.

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