2022/23 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MA Disability Studies (taught at University of Malta) - NOTE: not recruiting for 2022/23

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

2:1 usually, UG degree in a Social Science or other relevant subject.
We will consider applicants with 2:2 degrees in relevant subjects who also have a postgraduate degree (e.g. PGCE, Diploma, MA/MSc, LLM or similar) OR relevant professional/work experience.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Sociology and Social Policy

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Sociology and Social Policy

Programme specification:

This masters programme is a unique collaboration between two leading centres for disability studies – the Department for Disability Studies at the University of Malta and the Centre for Disability Studies at University of Leeds. The partnership offers the students a unique opportunity to benefit from the research strengths of both Schools, creating a programme that has a global focus.

The MA Disability Studies is designed to appeal to disabled people and their allies, policy-makers, service providers and other professionals in the field of disability who want to change perceptions about and ensure equality for disabled people. The programme explores the dynamics of disability, past, present and future, across a range of international contexts. This course appeals to people wanting to acquire a wide range of intellectual and research skills enabling them to bring sophisticated disability analysis to work in a wide range of professional fields including academia, activism, government agencies, quasi-governmental, national and international non-governmental organisations and business environments.

The MA Disability Studies focuses upon understanding the complexity of disability relations. The study of disability has never been more important. Globally, there are around 1 billion disabled people and with the ageing population in many countries, this figure is set to rise. Disabled people are more likely to experience poverty, receive less education and employment opportunities and have worse health outcomes than non-disabled people. Their right to dignified lives is often threatened by discrimination, prejudice and violence. Yet disabled people are not passive in the face of barriers to their inclusion and participation within society. They have campaigned to ensure that disability is recognised as a form social exclusion, not just a product of physical difference. Disability is now widely understood to be an important equality and human rights concern.

The MA Disability Studies supports students to recognise, understand and meet many of the challenges facing disabled people, equipping them with knowledge and skills to help build a more enabling society. They will learn about research methodologies and methods that involving and seek to empower disabled people. Students will also be exposed to cultural explanations of disability and the interface of cultural and literary disability research through the collaboration.

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