He has produced award-winning research in disability and media policy alongside other contemporary works on digital technology and cultures.
He received his PhD in literature from the University of Sydney for his thesis titled Turbulent Preceptors: Mentoring, Maternity and Masculinity in Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
[2] In the early 1990s, Goggin was policy advisor at Consumers Telecommunications before serving as deputy chair and public member of the Telephone Information Service Standards Council from 2002 to 2008.
Goggin was then professor of digital communication and deputy-director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
He was a professor of digital communication, and deputy director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia until early 2011.
Most notably, their book Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid, was awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Arts Non-Fiction prize.
Goggin wrote and published a seminal book, Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid, with the late bioethicist Christopher Newell in 2005.
[13] Looking at an assemblage of texts, institutions, social and cultural practices mobilised around health and welfare, sport, biotechnology, genetics, politics and migration; they establish the way power has manifested to exclude and marginalise people with disabilities.
These constructions drive the production and reproduction of social and cultural policies that view people with disabilities as forms of economic costs and community burdens.
[15] Taking an explicit human rights stance, Goggin and Newell argue that a commitment to greater autonomy and inclusion for people with disabilities is crucial for Australian society.
Nikki Wedgwood and Gwynnyth Lllewellyn herald the book as a much-need contribution to disability studies which has too long been dominated by "medical paradigms".