| CODE | DBS5008 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Emancipatory Disability Research | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Disability Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will enable students to understand the principles of emancipatory disability research and how best to implement these principles in practice. The study-unit will trace the history of emancipatory disability research within the wider context of the disabled people's movement as well as within the context of social science research. The basic principles of emancipatory disability research will be discussed. The use of different research strategies in putting these principles into practice will be outlined. Examples of different research projects based on emancipatory disability will be discussed. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit is primarily aimed at enabling students to build the required competencies for the undertaking of postgraduate research in the area of disability studies and to critically appraise the methodological issues related to applying the principles of emancipatory disability research in practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (a) demonstrate an understanding of the history of emancipatory disability research; (b) explain the principles of emancipatory disability research; (c) contextual disability research within the social science research and within disability studies; (d) explain ethical issues in disability research; (e) describe research methods and tools that are based on the principles of emancipatory disability research. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (a) develop, refine and present a research proposal of their own based on the principles of emancipatory disability research; (b) evaluate and critically engage with research methods and tools that are best suited for emancipatory disability research; (c) contextualise a research proposal within social science research and within disability studies. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Barnes, C. 2002. ‘Emancipatory disability research’: project or process? Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2 (1), pp.233-244. - Barnes, C. 2004. Reflections on doing Emancipatory Disability Research. In Swain, J., French, S., Barnes, C. & Thomas, C. (Eds.) Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments. Chapter 7, pp.47-53. Los Angeles: Sage. - Brown, L. & Boardman, F.K. 2011. Accessing the field: Disability and the research process. Social Science & Medicine, 72, pp.23-30. - Goodley, D. & Lawthom, R. 2005. Epistemological journeys in participatory action research: alliances between community psychology and disability studies. Disability and Society, 20 (2), pp.135-151. - Oliver, M. 1992. Changing the social relations of research production, Disability and Society, 7 (2), pp.101-114. - Stone, E. & Priestley, M. 1996. Parasites, pawns and partners: disability research and the role of non-disabled researchers. British Journal of Sociology, 47 (4), pp. 699-716. Available at: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/archive/00000927/ Supplementary Texts: - Barnes, C. 2003. What a Difference a Decade makes : Reflections on doing ‘Emancipatory’ Disability Research. Disability & Society, 18 (1), pp.3-17. - Beresford, P. 2000. What have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors got to do with Disability and Disability Studies? Disability and Society, Vol. 15 (1), pp. 167-172. - Mercer, G. 2004. From Critique to Practice: Emancipatory Disability Research. In Barnes, C. & Mercer, G., Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research. Leeds : The Disability Press. pp.118-137. - Oliver, M. 1997. Emancipatory Research: Realistic Goal or Impossible Dream? In Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (Eds.), Doing Disability Research. Leeds: The Disability Press. - Oliver, M. 2002. Emancipatory Research: A Vehicle for Social Transformation or Policy Development. 1st Annual Disability Research Seminar : “Using Emancipatory Methodologies in Disability Research”. Dublin. - Priestley, M., Waddington, L. & Bessozi, C. 2010. New priorities for disability research in Europe : Towards a user-led agenda. ALTER, European Journal of Disability Research, 4, pp.239-255. |
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