After four years, I have finished at the Royal Commission, and start a new role as Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, Connected with the Centre for Disability Research and Policy.
Working at the commission was challenging, at times traumatic, stressful and frustrating, but also meaningful. I’m immensely thankful for the disabled people who shared their stories, and my colleagues who supported me along the way.
I look forward to returning to teaching, and to writing and research under my own name and direction. In the way of life, which is determined to keep us humble, I begin in bed with a pressure mark.
I used to say “life sucks and then you die”, and I certainly thought that this last week. Perhaps, more accurately, “Life is wonderful and it sucks and then you die. Hang in there if you can.”
Life is wonderful, and sucks, and then you die
