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 to 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. Email: [email protected]
We will include this call for Doctoral Announcements in forthcoming issues of the journal.
Executive Editors
Name of the author: Liliana Marić
Thesis title: Inclusion Within Further and Higher Education: The Experience of Young People with Physical and Sensorial Disabilities
University awarding degree: University of Malta, Malta
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2018
This research examined the experience of inclusive education of young persons with physical and sensorial disability in further and higher education in Malta. Environmental, social and educational enabling/disabling factors of inclusive education were explored. Pragmatism was utilised as the underlying paradigm while critical realism, poststructuralism and critical disability theory were used as the interpretive frameworks of this epistemology. The social model of disability was applied to frame a position supporting disabled persons. A mixed-methods research design was employed to understand the experience of inclusive education at secondary level in preparation for the transition to further education and during further/higher education.
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