By Dr Georgia Van Toorn

Books

Van Toorn G, 2021, The New Political Economy of Disability Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism

Book Chapters

van Toorn G, 2024, 'Automating the welfare state', in The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare, Taylor & Francis, pp. 259 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003017110-24

van Toorn G, 2022, 'Marketisation in disability services: A history of the NDIS', in Designing Social Service Markets: Risk, Regulation and Rent-Seeking, ANU Press, pp. 185 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/dssm.2022.05

Edited Books

Perche D; Meagher G; Stebbing A, (eds.), 2022, Designing social service markets: Risk, regulation and rent-seeking, ANU Press, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/DSSM.2022

Journal articles

Leach Scully J; van Toorn G; Gendera S; Scully JL, 2025, 'Automating Misrecognition: The Case of Disability', Journal of bioethical inquiry., 22, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-025-10462-3

van Toorn G; Scully JL; Gendera S, 2025, '“This robot is dictating her next steps in life”: disability justice and relational AI ethics', AI and Society, 40, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02224-x

Coleman-Hicks R; van Toorn G, 2025, 'Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission', Australian Journal of Social Issues, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.70069

van Toorn G; Carney T, 2025, 'Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 60, pp. 21 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.342

van Toorn G; Henman P; Soldatić K, 2024, 'Introduction to the digital welfare state: Contestations, considerations and entanglements', Journal of Sociology, 60, pp. 507 - 522, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833241260890

van Toorn G; Soldatic K, 2024, 'Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare', Journal of Sociology, 60, pp. 523 - 539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833241244828

van Toorn G; Kirby E; Hamilton M; MacArtney J, 2024, 'What socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors shape older people's experiences of death and dying in residential aged care? A scoping review', Ageing and Society, 45, pp. 901 - 924, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X23000788

van Toorn G; Cox L, 2024, 'Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era', New Media and Society, 26, pp. 1249 - 1267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448231201650

van Toorn G, 2024, 'Inclusion interrupted: Lessons from the making of a digital assistant by and for people with disability', Government Information Quarterly, 41, pp. 101900, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2023.101900

van Toorn G; Scully JL, 2023, 'Unveiling algorithmic power: exploring the impact of automated systems on disabled people’s engagement with social services', Disability and Society, 39, pp. 3004 - 3029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2233684

Kirby E; van Toorn G; Lwin Z, 2022, 'Routines of isolation? A qualitative study of informal caregiving in the context of glioma in Australia', Health and Social Care in the Community, 30, pp. 1924 - 1932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13571

Blaxland M; Skattebol J; Hamilton M; Van Toorn G; Thomson C; Valentine K, 2022, 'From being at risk to being a risk : Journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity', Families Relationships and Societies, 11, pp. 321 - 339, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16297270094275

Cortis N; Van Toorn G, 2022, 'Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives', Critical Social Policy, 42, pp. 197 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183211020693

van Toorn G; Cortis N, 2022, 'Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work', Work, Employment and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09500170211058024

van Toorn G, 2021, 'Neoliberalism’s friends, foes and fellow travellers: What can radical feminist and disability perspectives bring to the policy mobilities approach?', Environment and Planning A, 53, pp. 723 - 740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20969419

Spurway KS; Soldatic K; Somers K; Van Toorn G, 2017, 'Emplacing Indigeneity and rurality in neoliberal disability welfare reform: The lived experience of Aboriginal people with disabilities in the West Kimberley, Australia', Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 49, pp. 2342 - 2361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17718374

Dowse L; Soldatic K; Spangaro J; Van Toorn G, 2016, 'Mind the gap: The extent of violence against women with disabilities in Australia: The', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 51, pp. 341 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2016.tb01235.x

Van Toorn G; Dowse L, 2016, 'Policy claims and problem frames: A cross-case comparison of evidence-based policy in an Australian context', Evidence and Policy, 12, pp. 9 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/174426415X14253873124330

van Toorn G; Soldatic KM, 2015, 'Disability, rights realisation, and welfare provisioning: What is it about Sweden?', Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2, pp. 109 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2015.1089185

Soldatic K; van Toorn G; Dowse L; Muir K, 2014, 'Intellectual Disability and Complex Intersections: Marginalisation under the National Disability Insurance Scheme', Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 1, pp. 6 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2014.906050

Reports

van Toorn G, 2024, United against algorithms: a primer on disability-led struggles against algorithmic injustice, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society,, http://dx.doi.org/10.60836/aweg-0922

O'Neill C; Sadowski J; Andrejevic M; Lewis K; van Toorn G; Lobato R; Binns D; Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V, 2023, Social Issues in Automated Decision-Making, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kvH1l3MFy1_Fhmqb6GVz_BW2WVAmMxx-/edit#heading=h.76m86r9jjbk9

Cortis N; Van Toorn G, 2020, Working in new disability markets: A survey of Australia's disability workforce, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5eb8b85e97714

Cortis N; Van Toorn G, 2020, The disability workforce and COVID-19: initial experiences of the outbreak, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5eb0e680cbb04

Hamilton M; Hodgson H; Bradbury B; Ip M; Adamson E; Van Toorn G, 2020, Security in old age for older single women without children, https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/business-school/research/women-work-leadership/security-in-old-age-for-older-single-women-without-children-report.pdf

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

van Toorn G, 2025, I am Not a Number, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Melbourne, Published: 18 February 2025, Duration: 00:20:09, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.admscentre.org.au/i-am-not-a-number-2024/

Media

van Toorn G; Soldatic K; Scully JL, 2022, NDIS plans rely on algorithms to judge need – the upcoming review should change that, https://theconversation.com/ndis-plans-rely-on-algorithms-to-judge-need-the-upcoming-review-should-change-that-193106

van Toorn G, 2022, Towards a Social-Relational Model of Digital Disability Classification, Data and Society, New York, https://medium.com/datasociety-points/toward-a-social-relational-model-of-digital-disability-classification-9a0a04ebdd10

Kirby E; Hamilton M; Van Toorn G, 2020, COVID-19 places spotlight on dying alone, https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/contributors/opinion/covid-19-places-spotlight-on-dying-alone/

Hamilton M; Kirby E; Van Toorn G, 2020, COVID-19 places spotlight on dying alone, https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/contributors/opinion/covid-19-places-spotlight-on-dying-alone/

Other

van Toorn G; Weatherall K, 2024, Joint Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts and Audit Inquiry into Public Sector AI Use, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.60836/mn49-wy88

Redden J; Dencik L; Brand J; van Toorn G, 2024, Labour’s AI vision: Can technology really end poverty?, Bristol University Press, Policy Press, https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/06/26/labours-ai-vision-can-technology-really-end-poverty/

Burrell J; Singh R; Davison P (eds.), 2024, Automation, Data and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4734250

Cortis N; Van Toorn G, 2021, Commentary on “Regulating disability services: the case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme quality and safeguarding system” (Hough, 2021), Taylor & Francis, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2021.1966645

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