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Pushing the boat out: an introductory study of admissions to UK medical, dental and veterinary schools for applicants with disabilities
- Author:
- TYNAN Anne
- Publisher:
- University of Newcaslte. LTSN-01 Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 77p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This study focuses on how medical, dental and veterinary schools differ in the information offered on their websites for potential applicants with disabilities. This includes an assessment of the relevant requirements of the registration or professional bodies and how clearly these are transmitted. If more people with disabilities are to enter medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, these ‘portals to the professions’ (the websites) should encourage them to investigate their possibilities of doing so.
Equality in Scotland guide in data sources 2002
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Central Statistics Unit
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Central Statistics Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Equal opportunities is your business too: guidance for Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Commission for racial Equality
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Commission for Racial Equality
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Equality in Scotland: disabled people
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Disability in Scotland: a baseline study
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, BANKS Pauline
- Publisher:
- Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 144p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Integrating disability into transport policy: establishment of a mobility and access committee for Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Development Department
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Some are more equal than others: definitions of disability in social policy and discrimination law in Europe
- Author:
- MABBETT Debora H.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 34(2), April 2005, pp.215-233.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article explores the relationship between anti-discrimination policy and existing social policies directed towards disabled people. It proposes a conception of ‘spheres’ of social policy, in which different spheres advance different dimensions of equality. Within each sphere, definitions of disability are based on relevant comparisons which determine who should be recognised as disabled for the purposes of the policy. Examples of definitions are given using material from a cross-national European project. Examples are also given where social policies provide for disabled people without defining a disability category. The implications of these findings for anti-discrimination policy are drawn out, and problems in defining disability for the purposes of ‘fourth generation’ equality rights are identified. It is suggested that there are limitations to the extent that equality policy can be founded on non-discrimination principles, and that a more substantive equality policy for disabled people needs to learn from debates and experiences within social policy.
Disability equality training: constructing a collaborative model
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(7), December 2004, pp.703-719.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes and discusses the process of a research project designed to provide a model of disability equality training for health and social care staff. Evaluates the interprofessional and participative consultative process when designing a programme based on a social model of disability. Analyses the methodology and conceptual thinking of the research process using qualitative data generated from service users and staff. Concludes with discussion of the challenges and opportunities for health and social service agencies committed to implementing staff disability equality
'Managing' disability: early experiences of university students with disabilities
- Author:
- GOODE Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 22(1), January 2007, pp.35-48.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent UK legislation, operational from December 2006, places a duty on all public authorities, including higher education institutions, to actively promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities. The university studied here has a number of initiatives in place to develop good practice in this area, but how do students themselves experience that provision? Research about people with disabilities has sometimes alienated them by failing to reflect their own perspectives. This study, explicitly aimed at incorporating students' voices and using interview and video data, offers some insight into students' experiences of the aids and obstacles to an inclusive learning environment at one university.
The public sector and equality for disabled people
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Simon, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 129p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This research was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to find out how public bodies are approaching the implementation of the Disability Equality Duty (part of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005). Public authorities such as Government Departments or Primary Care Trusts will be under a positive duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, including employees, service users and others, from December 2006.