We have agreed to provide within the journal a list of completed theses in the field of Disability Studies. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation for theses completed from 2013 which fit with the Aims and Scope of Disability & Society.
Please provide the following information:
Name of the author
Thesis title
University awarding degree
Degree awarded and year:
A 100 word synopsis of the thesis
Email address
Please forward this information to Helen Oliver, Disability & Society Editorial Office
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We will include this call for Doctoral Announcements in forthcoming issues of the journal.
Executive Editors
Name of the author: Aaron Johannes
Thesis title: What Works? Stories of Successful Leadership in the lives, groups and communities of people with intellectual disabilities
University awarding degree: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium / The Taos Institute, PhD 2017
This research into the lives, groups, and communities of people with intellectual disabilities used a social constructionist lens to co-create, document and analyse iterative “community conversations” about successful and satisfying experiences of leadership. The summative dissertation ranges from a literature review of self-advocate voices to qualitative analysis of personal and professional leadership histories and an autoethnography. Storytelling and generative accommodations such as graphic recording are found to be predominate methods to create opportunities for a new narrative of persistent context on relational leadership throughout the lifespan of people with intellectual disabilities as a way to examine supports, citizenship, and inclusion.
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Name of author: Callista Kahonde
Thesis title: A grounded theory study of family caregivers’ responses to the sexuality of young adults with intellectual disabilities
University awarding degree: University of Cape Town, South Africa, PhD 2017
Using the constructivist grounded theory approach, this study explored the responses of family caregivers to the sexuality of young adults with intellectual disabilities. The Theory of Contained Sexuality generated depicts how the family caregivers strive to ‘contain’ the sexuality of the young adults with intellectual disabilities inside boundaries that they can control and manage within their lifelong caring role. The study proposes a relational moral theory - the ethics of care – as a complement to the human rights framework in both research and practice around sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities living under lifelong family care.
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