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 2015 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: Sheila Kathleen Jennings
Thesis title: The right to support: Severely disabled children and their mothers
University awarding degree: York University, Toronto, Canada
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2019
Sheila Jennings examines how severely disabled children and their mothers are treated by Canadian law and policy. She analyzes deficiencies in supports the state makes available, providing an analysis of the state’s role as it privatizes responsibility for complex care. Within complex care, visible and hidden costs have been off loaded onto mothers by government. Using two conceptual frameworks she analyzes legal cases, legislation and policies as founded upon myths. She assesses paradigms that underlie legal arrangements, in particular, the roles assigned to mothers of children with severe disabilities. Her analysis engages with numerous areas of law, including constitutional law.
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