About your Trainer.



Louise Watch has ten years experience of using personal assistance herself and is a qualified and experienced trainer.
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Having an academic background in Medicine and Disability Studies / Social Policy, she has also carried out research into Personal Assistance at the University of Leeds.

Louise has also been a consultant and manager of both internal and external Direct Payment Support Schemes for over 7 years, bringing a wealth of personal and professional knowledge and experience to each course.

You can see more of her profile here.
Qualifications include:

  • MA in Disability Studies (Distinction)

focusing on:


  • Impairment, disability and handicap: definitions and the importance of meaning
  • Theoretical perspectives of disability
  • Disability and feminism
  • Disability and multiple oppression
  • The history of disability: from ignorance and superstition to scientific rationality.
  • The welfare state: rights, needs and the creation and maintenance of dependence.
  • Disability and globalisation.
  • Disability and the family: the cost of caring and the courtesy stigma.
  • Disability and education: segregation, integration and inclusion.
  • Disability and employment: discrimination and government policy on the employment of disabled people.
  • Disability and the social security system: poverty, the financial costs of impairment and assessment procedures.
  • Disability and health and social support services: statutory services, voluntarism and self help.
  • Disability and the built environment: housing, transport and public buildings.
  • Disability, leisure and social life: exclusion, isolation, sexuality and relationships.
  • Politics, independent living and the disabled people's movement.
  • Cultural representations of disability; the role of the media and charity advertising.
  • Disability culture and a disabled identity.
  • Accessing disability information, national and local.
  • User involvement: putting theory into practice.
  • Counselling disabled people.
  • Disability Equality Training.
  • Doing disability research: traditional positivist and interactionist methods.


Plus

  • Accredited Disability Equality Trainer.
  • BSc. Medical Electronics.
  • NVQ assessor and group trainer.
  • City & Guilds Aware - Child Protection.
  • CRB enhanced check available on request - current.