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:Rosa Morris
Thesis title:In/Validating Disability: Changing Labour Markets and Out of Work Disability Benefits
University awarding degree:University of Leeds, UK
Degree awarded and year:PhD, 2018
This thesis examines the relationship between the labour market and out of work disability benefits since 1971 to understand the disconnect between government’s approach to disability and disabled people’s lived experiences. Undertaken by someone who has personal experience of the assessment process, it examines the development of the ideology behind the Work Capability Assessment and how this is played out through disabled people’s experiences of it. It argues that this is an oppressive experience which removes autonomy and creates additional distress, but that this is the outcome of the role it plays in the functioning of the capitalist mode of production.
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