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 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.

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Name of author: Gabor Petri

Thesis Title: ‘Still out in the Cold’ – Self-advocacy and the Disabled People's Movement

University awarding degree: Tizard Centre, University of Kent

Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2019

Today, disabled people lead and control their representative organisations, with the exception of autistic people and people with a learning disability who are still often represented by parents and professionals. This thesis used empirical data from Britain and Hungary, to identify factors that influence self-advocacy in the disability movement. Hindering factors include economic barriers, practices of disability organisations and lack of support for self-advocates. Supporting factors include the Internet, the autistic community and some human rights policies. The study found evidence that disability organisations include self-advocates in tokenistic ways. The thesis offers a descriptive Pathways Model and a new, practice-based definition to self-advocacy.

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