CDS Teaching Activities

Members of CDS teach on a variety of courses within the University.

Supervision for Research Degrees (PhD/MPhil)

The Centre has a thriving international community of postgraduate research students and welcomes applications for supervision of student projects addessing disability issues (check School web pages for more information or contact us for an application pack).

• We are currently advertising two full-time posts for early stage researchers to work on Marie Curie 'DREAM' project for three years in combination with registration for a PhD.

MA programs in Disability Studies

The School of Sociology and Social Policy offers taught Master's or Diploma programmes in Disability Studies (which may be taken full-time, part-time). Joint MA programmes are also available, combining disability studies with other disciplines.

• MA Disability Studies
• MA Disability and Global Development
• MA Disability and Special Education
• MA Disability, Ethnicity and Racism
• MA Disability, Health and Illness
• MA Disability and Social Policy
• MA Disability and Gender
• MA Disability Studies (Distance Learning)

We are proud of the work produced by our past students and you can read some examples here.

• Personal Assistance and Social Reform According to the Swedish Relative Model of Disability
• A study of access to home ownership for disabled people
• Facilitated Sexual Expression in the Independent Living Movement in Ireland

Distance learning students - log in here

MA programs in Deaf studies and Special Education

The School of Education has a strong reputation for its MA in Deaf Education, which recognises the importance of BSL as a language, and the central role of deaf adults in the education of deaf children (can be taken with or without the Teacher of the Deaf qualification, available by flexible distance learning programme). The University also offers an MA in BSL interpreting.

• MA Deaf Education (Teacher of the Deaf Qualification)
• MA Deaf Education International
• MA Special Educational Needs
• MA Interpreting: British Sign Language - English

MSc in Health Studies

While disabiltiy studies has frequently critiqued the interventions of health and social work professionals, those critiques have also informed changes in the training of those professionals. Qualifying and post-qualifying course often include elements of critical disability debates within their curriculum.

• MSc Nursing (Learning Disabilities) with Registration

Postgraduate Modules

Postgraduate modules are offered within existing degree programmes at the University of Leeds, and may also be taken by doctoral students in research training or by visiting international students. A sample of modules currently offered can be found in the University's online module catalogue.

More detail about individual course modules is available in the University module catalogue.

• SLSP5119M Dissertation (Disability)
• SLSP5216M Social Policy, Politics and Disabled People
• SLSP5230M Disability & Development
• SLSP5232M Negotiated Study in Disability Studies
• SLSP5414M Debates on Disability Theory and Research
• SLSP5601M Theories and Definitions of Disability (DL)
• SLSP5603M Culture, Researching Disability and Changing Practice (DL)
• SLSP5604M Disability Project (DL)
• PIED5720M Dissertation: Development Studies and Disability
• LAW5195M International Human Rights and Disabled People
• HECS5226M Complex Health Needs of People with Profound and Multiple Disabilities (Learning Disability)
• CPCH5015M Childhood Disability

Undergraduate Modules

Undergraduate modules are offered as choices within existing degree programmes at the University of Leeds, and may often be taken by visiting international students as part of a year abroad. A sample of modules currently offered can be found in the University's online module catalogue.

• SLSP0050 Thinking about Disability
• SLSP2040 Disability Studies: An Introduction
• SLSP3120 Disability Rights and the International Policy Context
• ENGL3433 States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Exceptionality in Contemporary Culture
• HECS1077 Disability, Inclusion and the Life Course
• HECS2088 Healthcare for People with a Learning Disability
• HECS2109 Consolidation of Theory and Practice in Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing
• HECS2120 The Social Construction of Learning Disability Practice
• HECS2121 Transition and Change in Learning Disability Practice
• HECS2134 Therapeutic Intervention in Learning Disability Practice
• HECS2135 Sexuality and People with a Learning Disability
• HECS2157 Therapeutic Engagement in Mental Health and Learning Disability
• HECS3112 Communication Disability across the Lifespan
• HECS3172 Therapeutic Intervention in learning Disability Practice

Disability Equality Training

(please enquire for details)