Centre for Disability Studies Collection
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The catalogue titles or descriptions in this collection may contain terminology and phrases that would now be considered unacceptable. Where present these original terms continue to be included to preserve historical accuracy and provide social and historical context.Users are advised that the content in this collection may include accounts of discrimination and the expression of opinions and/or terminology that would now be considered unacceptable.
See the Access and usage section below for further details.
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Centre for Disability Studies Collection
Classmark: MS 2069
Date(s): 1974-2015
Language: English
Size and medium: manuscript papers; typescript papers; photocopies; pamphlets; flyers; newspaper cuttings; journals; leaflets; 7 boxes, 3 shelves of journals
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/626398
Description
The collection includes the papers of various organisations run by disabled people for disabled people. It contains minutes, agendas and information bulletins. There are flyers and posters about events and training of interest to disabled people. The collection includes job descriptions for vacancies in the health service and social services. It encompasses a wide variety of pamphlets, journals and reports.
You may also be interested in the online archive hosted by the Centre for Disability Studies http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/library/
Biography or history
The Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) is an interdisciplinary centre for research and education into disability studies at the University of Leeds. It corporates and continues the work of the former Disability Research Unit (DRU). The DRU was set up in 1990 in the School of Sociology and Social Policy as a research unit for the British Council of Disabled People's Council. The inital research activity of the DRU focused on institutional discrimination and building a case for anti-discriminatory legislation in Britain.
By 2000 disability studies had become an established interdisciplinary field in universities and research centres worldwide. It now attracts many students and researchers from different backgrounds. Recognising these developments, DRU launched a more broadly based interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies.
CDS approaches research and education from a social model approach, which recognises that disability is primarily a type of institutional discrimination and social exclusion, rather than being generated by physical difference between individuals. It promotes participatory methods and international collaboration.
Provenance
The collection was amassed by the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) at the University of Leeds. It was used in-house by staff and students of the Centre. Special Collections acquired the archival documents and journals of key organisations run by disabled people from the CDS Collection in March 2017.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
This collection is subject to various access conditions. Please see individual catalogue descriptions for further details on access.
The catalogue titles or descriptions in this collection may contain terminology and phrases that would now be considered unacceptable. Where present these original terms continue to be included to preserve historical accuracy and provide social and historical context.
View the Cultural Collections sensitivity policy
Users are advised that the content in this collection may include accounts of discrimination and the expression of opinions and/or terminology that would now be considered unacceptable.
Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.