Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Disability, Inequality and Intersectionality
In the course you considered how disability inequality intersects with other identities and characteristics and how alliances and other groups can be built and affect change. The course drew together these ideas, concepts, and approaches which surface, identify, and map forms and experiences of disability inequality by using the lens of 'The Sociological Imagination' to begin thinking about the processes, policies, and practices that cause and maintain disability inequality.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Claudia Coveney
Lecturer at the University of Leeds
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore how and why disability intersects with a range of other identities and characteristics
- Identify the ways in which disability oppression interacts with other characteristics and experiences
- Investigate and analyse the impact and implications of intersectional inequalities
- Evaluate the potential for and implications of building alliances with other groups.
- Explain what disability equality is and its significance
- Explore the relational and relative nature of disability inequality
- Identify disability inequality in different contexts.
Syllabus
The ways in which disability inequality is experienced when it intersects with other identities and characteristics.
The ways in which Disability Studies has sought to explain disability inequality in terms of double, multiple and simultaneous oppression and more recently by drawing on the concept of intersectionality.
Using a sociological imagination, we begin to think about the processes, policies and practices that cause and maintain disability inequality.
Turning to ideas and approaches to understanding inequality outside of disability studies, we will begin think about their application to examples of disability inequality.
Issued on 4th November 2026
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