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 author: Ikmal Hisham Md. Tah
Thesis title: Human Rights Approach to Disability within the Malaysian Legal, Policy and Institutional Frameworks
University awarding degree: International Islamic University Malaysia
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2018
This thesis analyses the principle of human rights approach to disability within the Malaysian legal, policy and institutional frameworks. It involves doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal analysis, which includes library-based research and interviews with relevant key persons within the disability sector in Malaysia. The findings show there is inadequate protection of rights to people with disabilities in Malaysia due to insufficient legal protection, lack of action-oriented policy and inadequacy of institutional frameworks that govern the affairs related to disabled people. Finally, specific recommendations have been provided to improve the rights and situation of people with disabilities in Malaysia.
Email: [email protected]