Disability research

Commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers for Social Affairs and Health, we present an overview of Nordic research networks and journals in the field of disability research.

All information, including contact details, has been retrieved from each institution’s own website.

Nordic research networks

Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR)

Web page for the Nordic Network on Disability Research
Board members:

• Hisayo Katsui, Professor, University of Helsinki, hisayo.katsui@helsinki.fi
• Stefan Hardonk, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland, hardonk@hi.is
• Line Melbøe, Professor, Arctic Universiy of Norway, line.melboe@uit.no
• Lars Oestreicher, Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Lars.Oestreicher@it.uu.se

• Anthon Sand Jørgensen, Associate Professor, VIA University College, asj@via.dk
• Patrick Kermit, Professor, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, patrick.kermit@ntnu.no
• Marie Sepulchre, Assistant Professor, Lund University, marie.sepulchre@soch.lu.se
• Pia Ringø, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, ringoe@socsci.aau.dk
• Laufey Elísabet Löve, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland, lel@hi.is
• Reetta Mietola, Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, reetta.mietola@helsinki.fi

Nordic Research Network on Deafblindness

Web page for the Nordic Research Network on Deafblindness
Contact: Moa Wahlqvist, Research and Development Coordinator, moa.wahlqvist@nkcdb.se

European networks

Academic Network of European Disability Experts

The Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED) was created by the European Commission in December 2007. The aim is to establish and maintain a pan-European academic network in the disability field that will support policy development in collaboration with the Commission’s Disability Unit.

In each of the countries ANED has one institute or individual expert as the contact for that country. The contacts are:

• Denmark: Steen Bengtsson, sb@vive.dk
• Finland: Teppo Kroger, teppo.kroger@jyu.fi
• Iceland: James Gordon Rice, james@hi.is
• Norway: Johans Tveit Sandvin, johans.t.sandvin@nord.no
• Sweden: Johanna Gustafsson, johanna.gustafsson@oru.se

European Disability Expertise (EDE)

Web page for European Disability Expertise
Contact: Inmaculada Placencia, European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion Inmaculada.placencia-porrero@ec.europa.eu

Representative of Finland, Hisayo Katsui, PhD. Docent. Professor of Disability Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki University, Finland. hisayo.katsui@helsinki.fi

National networks on disability research

• Danish Network on Disability Research  (in Danish only)
• Finnish Network on Disability Research
• Norwegian Network on Disability Research
• Swedish Network on Disability Research
• Icelandic Network on Disability Research (site to be launched)

Journals

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research (Taylor & Francis) is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming to disseminate innovative, high quality, social research on disability, which enables critical reflection on the position of people with disabilities in different societal contexts.

The Scientific Journal Nordic Welfare Research (Scandinavian University Press) publishes articles about various welfare policy themes, such as the circumstances and living conditions of the population, working life and integration, social services, health care, public health, disability issues, and alcohol and drug policy. The journal was established in 2016.