Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, PhD is the Lab Director. The SoDI Lab applies the social model of disability, primarily targeting research and interventions that change society to improve the outcomes of ...

At the Global Disability Summit (GDS), the Education International (EI) delegation reaffirmed that inclusive education is a ...

Using the social model of disability as a conceptual framework, this Article examines the nexus between testimonial competence, legal capacity, and access to justice, which the court neglected to ...

These questions were later criticized because they did not align with the social model of disability, which frames disability not only as an individual attribute but also as a result of societal ...

These factors interact with disability to shape individuals’ experiences and the barriers they face. According to the social model, ‘disability’ refers to the ways that socially constructed barriers ...

The idea of barriers is an important one in the social model of disability. According to this model, disability comes not from the existence of an impairment but from barriers that society creates.

“The Government must shift its focus from a medical model of disability to the social model, or risk doing real harm to an ...

This course examines the social and political context in which disability is created in contemporary society. Topics covered include models of disability, the disability industry, the disability ...

An estimated one in five people living in the UK have a disability, including around eight million people of working age. Many of our students and staff will be included in these numbers. The Social ...