Dr Peta Cook

Peta Cook is a qualitative sociologist who focuses on how people experience and understand their world. To achieve this, Peta focuses on citizen needs and wants for age and inclusive societies, the lived experiences of discrimination particularly ageism and ableism/disablism, and the lived experiences of traumatic brain injury. She enjoys collaborating across disciplinary boundaries.

Peta also works with and in communities to generate projects that meet their needs, which has resulted in her research being translated into local government policies, and to inform strategy of non-government organisations. Peta has a strong interest in the lived experiences of disability, and has a passion for increasing community awareness and for creating structural and institutional change.

In her collaborations with Dr Ryan Thorneycroft (WSU) and Prof Nicole Asquith (UTAS) and the Scholarship Disabled team, Peta is also investigating academic ableism.