CDS Research1

The CDS research activities and initiatives section showcases examples of the projects, publications, and events associated with CDS members engaged in disability studies related work. It provides a space to highlight the breadth of critical, empirical, theoretical, and activist scholarship taking place across the CDS community.

This list is not exhaustive, but offers an overview of selected activities and initiatives connected to CDS members. Please use the sections below to navigate through current and recent projects, publications, and events.

If you are a member of CDS and would like to include your activities, initiatives, and/or publications, please contact Dr Miro Griffiths: [email protected]

Members of CDS are involved in a wide variety of research activity, including:

Current projects

• A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200A Cultural History of Disability in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200
• Capacity, Consent and Autonomy
• Changing the pace of change: Disability Inclusion in development responses to sexual violence for women with disabilities through arts and humanities
• No research about us without us
• MS and domestic violence and abuse research initiative
• Qualitative research to understand the support needs of disabled adult rape victims
• https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/education-social-sciences-law/dir-record/research-projects/1287/disabled-women-s-experiences-of-reporting-sexual-violence-to-the-police
• Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures
• University of Leeds East Asia Disability Rights Forum (U-Lead)
• Inclusive Public Space
• Smart, Userfriendly, Interactive, Tactual, Cognition-Enhancer that Yields Extended Sensosphere (SUITCEYES)
• European Disability Expertise
• Social Reintegration for Teenagers and Young Adults Living with and Beyond Cancer
• Survivors Project
• Disability Activism in Europe: Young Disabled Activist’s Views and Experiences
• Disability and the Home

Previous projects

• Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED)
• The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law
• Realizing the political rights of persons with disabilities (PODI)
• Realist Evaluation of Adapted Sex Offender Treatment Programs for Men with Intellectual Disability
• Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Implications for Theory, Practice and Policy
• Play for Children with Disabilities (LUDI)
• Securing Access to Justice for Children with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities
• Disability Rights: Expanding Accessible Markets (DREAM)
• Designing for Inclusive Play
• Access to Specialised Victim Support Service for Women with Disabilities who have Experienced Violence
• Evaluating EU progress in implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the EU Disability Strategy
• Indicators of political participation in Europe
• Linking life stories with social and policy change in Britain
• The role of sign language for deaf children with cochlear implants
• Deaf children's early literacy at home
• Disability equality in English primary schools (DEEPS)
• Disability Concepts in the UK and Latin America
• European Research Agendas for Disability Equality (EuRADE)
• Rapid Evidence Assessments for the Office of Disability Issues
• Talking about sex and relationships: the views of young people
• Disabled People and Disaster Recovery

Previous doctoral projects

• Gender, Disability and Access to Education in Tanzania
• Disabled People and Communication Systems in the Twenty-First Century
• In the shadow of genetics: an analysis of eugenic influences on twentieth-century social policy for disabled people in European and North American societies
• The Social Lives of Young Adults in a 'therapeutic community'
• Levels of Integration for People with Spinal Cord Injury in Bangladesh
• Women, Learning Difficulty and Identity: a study through personal narrative
• Disability and Housing: home, housing options and access to owner-occupation
• The economic needs and priorities of disabled people in Jordan
• Disability as embodied Cultural Memory? Identity, positions and imagery of amputees in Sierra Leone
• A qualitative study of the experiences of disabled international students in four English universities
• A qualitative study of the self-advocacy movement for people with the label 'intellectual disability' in Malta
• Social citizenship and collective action: the case of the Portuguese disabled people's movement
• Government, Education, Dyslexia: Towards A Genealogy of Dyslexia

Projects pre-2010

• Building Bridges: disability and old age
• What Works? Re-focussing special schools in Leeds
• Do looked after children with communication impairments need an advocacy service in Leeds?
• Access to healthcare for Black and Minority Ethnic Disabled People
• Exploring self-advocacy and activism in the lives of people with the label of learning difficulties
• User-defined Outcomes of Community Care for Disabled Asian People
• Whatever Next? Young Disabled People Leaving Care
• Life as a Disabled Child
• Creating Independent Futures: An Evaluation of Services Led By Disabled People
• From Womb to Tomb: Disability, social policy and the life course
• A Health Needs Assessment of Black and Minority Ethnic Children’s Needs
• Disabled People and Direct Payments: a UK comparative Study
• The Scope of Reasonable Adjustment as a Discriminatory Dilemma: A Survey of British and Swedish Disability Discrimination Legislation in Comparative Perspective
• Disability and Public Transport: a review of available data
• Good Practice for Providing Reasonable Access to the Physical Built Environment for Disabled People