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: Jane M. Hibberd
Thesis title: A Critical Analysis of Practice Education in Health and Social Care: Integrating Disabilities Studies, the Capability Approach and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
University awarding degree: University of East Anglia, UK
Degree awarded and year: PhD, 2019
Practice education forms an integral part of the curriculum for higher education students on pre-registration programmes in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy. Given the increasing prevalence of students with a disability in higher education, support for their needs is paramount particularly given the challenges of off-campus-based learning. The International Classification of Disability, Functioning and Health and the capability approach were the two key theoretical approaches used for understanding constructions and narratives of disability, along with key ideas from critical disability studies, in particular the critical realist approach.
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