Beyond lived experience: choosing effective candidates for identified roles
This article by Brooke Szücs, Chair of the Disability Inclusion Advocacy Network at the University of Queensland, was published in Times Higher Education (THE) Campus. In it, Brooke identifies four things hiring panels can consider when recruiting for identified roles: how a candidate stays connected to their community, how they keep learning about experiences different from their own, whose voices are missing from the team, and how they handle disagreement. She includes sample interview questions for each. Her examples focus mainly on people with disability, but the ideas apply to other identified roles too. (September 2026)