Announcement of doctoral theses

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 2014 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: Erika Katzman

Thesis title: The Work of Self-Managing Attendant Services: A Reflexive Ethnographic Study

University awarding degree: The University of Western Ontario (Western University), Ontario, Canada

Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2019

Whereas the tasks disabled people and their support networks contribute to organize and manage direct-funded attendant services (direct payments) are often represented as privileges or responsibilities, this research draws on disability studies and feminist theories to characterize these activities as ‘work’. The reflexive ethnographic study explored multiple perspectives on such work in the context of one “self-managed” attendant services program in Ontario, Canada. The results suggest this work, performed by self-managers, their employees and family members, is often invisible and frequently relational. This thesis considers historical, social, economic and cultural factors that shape liberatory and marginalizing dimensions of such work.

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