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.
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Name of the author: Alexis Buettgen
Thesis title: From the Standpoint of People with Disabilities: An Institutional Analysis of Work in the Non-Profit Sector
University awarding degree: York University, Toronto, Canada
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2018
This dissertation critically examined how the current economic and political environment influences forms of employment available to disabled people; and explained how and why the non-profit sector can be a potential site for inclusive employment. This institutional analysis investigated how three non-profit organizations provided inclusive employment opportunities in Ontario, Canada. Findings showed that various reading practices of the Human Rights Code contributed to the abstraction or recognition of the subjectivities of employees embodied experiences. It also highlighted how employment in the non-profit sector, from the standpoint of disabled people, implied the enrichment but also the sacrificing of one’s individual being.
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Name of the author: Ged Doherty
Thesis Title: What is the nature and extent of mate crime offending against disabled people and how effective are institutional responses?
University awarding degree: University of Leeds, UK
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2018
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/J500215/1].
Mate crime is a form of exploitative familiarity whereby disabled people are exploited by others purporting to be their friends. Past cases have involved murders.
Using a survey, interviews and a case study within a police force, this study identified mate crime reports involving harassment, theft and physical and sexual abuse. Victims were often isolated disabled people living in deprived urban areas. Findings suggest wider societal oppressive attitudes provide grounds for prejudice, whilst individual effects including isolation and victims’ psycho-emotional needs provide opportunities for perpetrators. Familiarity then blurs offending contributing to inadequate institutional responses, repetition and escalation.
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Name of the author: Anna K. Drabarz
Thesis title: The principle of equal opportunities for people with disabilities in the system of European Union Structural Funds implementation
University awarding degree: University of Bialystok, Poland
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2014
The subject of the dissertation is the issue of horizontal policy of equal opportunities for people with disabilities in the system of implementation of the EU structural funds. The research covers issues related to the content of the principle of equal opportunities for people with disabilities in international and EU law and ensuring the current level of protection of fundamental rights of persons with disabilities in the implementation process of the regional financial instrument of the EU Cohesion Policy. The dissertation attempts to answer the question about the reasons for the insufficient implementation of the equal opportunities principle for people with disabilities and to construct a model for its adequate enforcement.
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