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Start Date between Sept 24 - July 25

Disability and Global Challenges

If you began your programme between September 2024 and July 2025, you will always find your modules in this section.

Start Date between Sept 24 - July 25

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OSSP5101M Understanding Disability

£1170.00

Description

The big ideas of the disabled people’s movement have transformed lives and have set the intellectual culture of disability studies. In this module we will explore a critical history of these big ideas demonstrating how these have led to practical solutions to many of the injustices experienced by disabled people and making visible the horizon of the inclusive society. Students will become more confident in deploying complex ideas in their practice as this module is the theoretical foundation of the programme.
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Disability and Inclusion

OSSP5102M Disability and Inclusion

£1170.00

Description

This module introduces students to the nature and lived experience of exclusion and principles and practices of inclusion in contemporary global contexts. Taking as its starting point the concepts of belonging, community, equality and inequality, and justice it considers the differing ways exclusion impacts different population cohorts with a particular focus on disability. This module provides a foundational knowledge for identifying, resisting, and challenging barriers for disabled people and for building theories and practices of inclusion.
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OSSP5201M A Human Rights Approach to Disability

£1170.00

Description

This module equips students with knowledge and skills to engage critically with the ways in which governments and other civil society actors have sought to meet the needs of disabled people and to evaluate the implications of this for disabled people’s lives, individually and collectively. It provides the opportunity for students to investigate and explore disabled people’s responses to the disability business and the disabling state have been highly influential in changing ideas about what appropriate and effective services and other forms of provision are. In particular, the articulation of Independent Living as the aspiration of the disabled people’s movement has created a powerful challenge to existing policies and practices. This module will explore how this challenge has been embraced, resisted or appropriated in different contexts and spaces.
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OSSP5101M Understanding Disability (Alumni)

£1053.00

Description

The big ideas of the disabled people’s movement have transformed lives and have set the intellectual culture of disability studies. In this module we will explore a critical history of these big ideas demonstrating how these have led to practical solutions to many of the injustices experienced by disabled people and making visible the horizon of the inclusive society. Students will become more confident in deploying complex ideas in their practice as this module is the theoretical foundation of the programme.
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Disability and Inclusion

OSSP5102M Disability and Inclusion (Alumni)

£1053.00

Description

This module introduces students to the nature and lived experience of exclusion and principles and practices of inclusion in contemporary global contexts. Taking as its starting point the concepts of belonging, community, equality and inequality, and justice it considers the differing ways exclusion impacts different population cohorts with a particular focus on disability. This module provides a foundational knowledge for identifying, resisting, and challenging barriers for disabled people and for building theories and practices of inclusion.
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OSSP5201M A Human Rights Approach to Disability (Alumni)

£1053.00

Description

This module equips students with knowledge and skills to engage critically with the ways in which governments and other civil society actors have sought to meet the needs of disabled people and to evaluate the implications of this for disabled people’s lives, individually and collectively. It provides the opportunity for students to investigate and explore disabled people’s responses to the disability business and the disabling state have been highly influential in changing ideas about what appropriate and effective services and other forms of provision are. In particular, the articulation of Independent Living as the aspiration of the disabled people’s movement has created a powerful challenge to existing policies and practices. This module will explore how this challenge has been embraced, resisted or appropriated in different contexts and spaces.
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OSSP5202M Realising Disability Equality Through Policy

£1170.00

Description

This module equips students with knowledge and skills to engage critically with public policy reforms in the field of disability equality. It provides them with an understanding of opportunities for policy change, and the challenges this presents. It allows students to explore the choices facing policy makers, and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to policy reform (such as between legislating or educating, or between targeting and mainstreaming policy interventions). They will learn about policy processes, and the factors and actors that influence them. Students will apply advanced knowledge to critically evaluate the opportunities for reform in selected case studies in relevant policy fields (including policy challenges identified by students, or relevant to their interests). They will consider the factors that shape opportunities for disability policy reform, the influence of different policy actors and the constraints on available choices and make recommendations.
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OSSP5202M Realising Disability Equality Through Policy (Alumni)

£1053.00

Description

This module equips students with knowledge and skills to engage critically with public policy reforms in the field of disability equality. It provides them with an understanding of opportunities for policy change, and the challenges this presents. It allows students to explore the choices facing policy makers, and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to policy reform (such as between legislating or educating, or between targeting and mainstreaming policy interventions). They will learn about policy processes, and the factors and actors that influence them. Students will apply advanced knowledge to critically evaluate the opportunities for reform in selected case studies in relevant policy fields (including policy challenges identified by students, or relevant to their interests). They will consider the factors that shape opportunities for disability policy reform, the influence of different policy actors and the constraints on available choices and make recommendations.
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