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 2015 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:Jasna Russo
Thesis title:Unmaking Madness. Exploring collective first-person epistemology
University awarding degree:Brunel University London, UK: Awarded Brunel University Vice Chancellor's prize for research excellence.
Degree awarded and year:PhD, 2019
This study investigates the potential emergence of a new paradigm in understanding and approaching madness that is grounded in the first-person, collective knowledge of people who have personal experience of madness and who oppose its biomedical explanation. The emphasis is on the research process that merges diverse first-person perspectives into a shared body of knowledge that can offer a counter-discourse to the dominant, biomedical one. This thesis offers a methodological and ethical example of the value of solidarity, dialogue and working with difference whilst searching for connections and generating knowledge of complex human experiences.
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