Stu has had a multi-discipline career, from a small business owner in the games industry, to CEO of a Registered Training Organisation, to a university academic teaching business and higher education, to a researcher investigating emotion’s impact on ethics. Throughout his career he has navigated the challenges of work, with the added challenge of being in a wheelchair, and the associated biases and discrimination that comes from having a disability in the Australian workforce. Stu now finds himself in the disability sector, using his knowledge and expertise to support others and using his lived experience of disability to advocate for systemic change.

I am 40 years old and have always lived in the Bunbury area, I have served on several Committees, including Department of Housing Regional Appeals Committee, Chairperson of Advocacy WA and a former member of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability. I am a lecturer on Individual Support Disability Certificate III at North Metropolitan TAFE, MT Lawley, and am a strong advocate of disability awareness and strongly believe in empowering the person with the disability to lead their own life however they choose.