When realism is critical

 Tom Shakespeare After many years working in academia, I currently work at the WHO.   Our mission in the Disability and Rehabilitation unit is to support our WHO member states to improve their responses to disabled people.  We try to improve…

Vic Finkelstein: A Life Remembered

Alan Roulstone, Professor of Disability and Inclusion, University of Northumbria, UK It was recently announced that Vic Finkelstein, veteran disability activist and academic had sadly passed away.  Vic Finkelstein was born in Johannesburg in 1938 and was part of the…

Research on disability and equality in the Nordic countries

 Bodil Ravneberg (secretary of NNDR board), Senior researcher, Uni Rokkansenteret, Bergen, Norway As a result of increased immigration to Scandinavia from countries outside the EU and North America since the 1980’s, traditional concepts of equality and gender have been challenged…

Presidential address (of some sort)

Simo Vehmas (President of NNDR) Professor of Special Education University of Jyväskylä, Finland NNDR has been since its foundation in 1997 a relatively loose network that has had mainly two functions: arranging biennial congresses and publishing The Scandinavian Journal of…