Disability and Social Inclusion - Postgraduate Research
The Centre for Disability and Social Inclusion provides a range of opportunities for postgraduate students through its active research programme.
There are two routes: One is direct entry onto the MPhil/PhD programme; the other is via the taught MSc programme in Disability Management and Vocational Rehabilitation (currently under review).
The MSc introduces students to disability management in the workplace and applications of vocational rehabilitation. The programme is open to, and designed for, practitioners from a range of backgrounds including health and social care, management and finance.
Entrance requirements
To enter the MPhil/PhD programme you need to have a good first degree in a relevant discipline. The Centre for Disability and Social Inclusion is happy to consider either full-time or part-time MPhil/PhD applications.
Students are supervised by Centre staff and, if appropriate, other staff from across the University. Centre staff come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds providing an ideal context for interdisciplinary approaches to research.
The Centre particularly welcomes applications from students which explore the following issues:
- Disability, gender, sexuality
- Acquired Brain Injury
- The experience of disability/chronic illness
- Users and carers
- Education and employment
- Policy and welfare
- Early years and family support
- Transition to adulthood & independent living
- Information and communication technologies and disability.