Jackie Leach Scully, Reader in Social Ethics and Bioethics, Newcastle University, UK Conversations among disabled people in Britain these days circle round and round one topic: the government and what it is doing to us. And those conversations are full…
Dr. phil. Dóra S. Bjarnason, professor. School of Education, The University of Iceland e-mail dsb@hi.is I have never fitted comfortably into a “creed” or “-ism” even though I have tried at different points in my life. I was never a…
Jan Grue, Research Fellow, Oslo University College, Norway In the wake of the July 22 killings in Oslo and on Utøya, the public debate in Norway has to some extent, and quite regrettably, shifted from declarations of unity and tolerance…
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…
Kristín Björnsdóttir, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland A few weeks ago, I stood in front of a large group of undergraduate students at the University of Iceland. ‘My brother is a retard,’ I said. The students stopped browsing…
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…
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…
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…
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…