CDS Research Activities
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