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 2018 which fit with the Aims and Scope of Disability & Society.
Please provide the following information:
Name of author
Thesis title
University awarding degree
Degree awarded and year:
A 100 word synopsis of the thesis
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We will include this call for Doctoral Announcements in forthcoming issues of the journal.
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Name of the author: Peter Sun San Wong
Thesis title: Positive Autism: Drucker-based auto-ethnographic inquiry of the employment retention of people with autism
University awarding degree: Southern Cross University, Australia
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2020
Despite decades of deficit-based autism behavioural interventions and treatment, 80 per cent of adults-with-autism are unemployed. This situation is not improving. This study builds on a Drucker-based-strengths-focused management model to address employment retention issues for people-with-autism. Evocative/analytic auto-ethnography places pre-eminence on the first-person account of the story told with rigorous analysis where the evocative is the superordinate and the analytic the subordinate. Understanding and addressing the organisational and structural mechanisms underpinning barriers to participation would inform efforts to redress social and health inequity through social action and our theoretical conceptualisation of disability and what it means to experience autism.
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