CDS Research Activities

Some Current Projects

• Human rights, strategic litigation and people with 'mental disabilities' in Europe
• Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED)
• Linking life stories with social and policy change in Britain
• Family and disability: a social and cultural analysis of intellectual disability in Ecuador
• A qualitative study of the experiences of disabled international students in four English universities
• Disability as embodied Cultural Memory? Identity, positions and imagery of amputees in Sierra Leone
• A qualitative study of the self-advocacy movement for people with the label 'intellectual disability' in Malta
• The social creation of male anorexia
• Social citizenship and collective action: the case of the Portuguese disabled people's movement
• Constructing male anorexia
• Genealogical history of dyslexia
• Valuing the health of people with learning difficulties
• Social factors influencing the training of therapists around disability in Bangladesh
• the Ethnicity Training Network
• Deaf people and the Internet
• the role of sign language for deaf children with cochlear implants
• deaf children's early literacy at home
• the politicisation of disabled women in South Korea

Some Previous Projects

• Disability equality in English primary schools
• Disability concepts in Europe and Latin America
• Disabled people's research priorities in Europe
• support for disabled students in higher education
• Performance of disability histories
• Research evidence on independent living
• Young people with learning difficulties talking about sex and relationships
• European networking for disability research collaboration
• Beyond 'vulnerability': a social model approach to conceptualising risk of sexual violence against people with learning difficulties
• Re-marketing the unmarketables: a critical examination of disabled people in Egypt's labour market
• The Blind, the Deaf and the Halt: Physical Disability, the Poor Law and Charity c. 1830-1890, with particular reference to the County of Yorkshire
• The making of a Jamaican disability policy
• Disability and Housing: home, housing options and access to owner-occupation
• representing autism: a cultural history
• disabled children and their parents in Taiwan
• comparison of British and Swedish disability discrimination legislation
• disability and public transport in Great Britain
• reasonable access: design for disability
• disabled people and disaster relief
• implementation of UK direct payments policy
• eugenic influences on social policy in Europe and North America
• social policy effects of human genome research on disabled people
• disabled women and culture
• the representation of disability in TV soap operas
• disability, technology and gender dynamics in the UK labour market
• the social lives of young adults in a 'theraputic community'
• comparative disability policies in Russia, the US and the UK
• levels of integration for people with spinal cord injury in Bangladesh
• women, learning difficulty and identity
• the future of user-led services
• access to education for disabled women in Tanzania
• disability, social policy and the life course
• health needs assessment of minority ethnic children in Leeds
• disabled people and communications technology
• representing the claims of older disabled people
• removing barriers to disabled nursing students on clinical placement
• an evaluation of pilot schemes for school inclusion
• advocacy for looked after children with communication impairments
• access to healthcare for black and ethnic minority disabled people
• self advocacy and activism with people with the label of learning difficulties
• what happens to people with severe aphasia?
• user-defined outcomes of community care for disabled Asian people
• mainstream and special schooling
• young disabled people leaving care
• registered general nurses knowledge of, and attitude to, disabled people
• information and services for young disabled people leaving education
• life as a disabled child
• the economic needs and priorities of disabled people in Jordan
• disabled students in higher education
• disability politics and community care
• the sexual politics of disability
• disability and development in China
• the multiple oppression of Black disabled women in employment
• measuring disablement in society
• disability information services
• independent living and personal assistance
• disabling imagery and the media
• disabled people and discrimination in the UK
• the experience of young disabled people in day centres