Bloggposts posted in 2013
Dr Nicola Burns, Researcher at Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK Over the past two years I have been working on an EU funded project into migration and health, specifically focusing on cross-cultural communication in primary care…
Minna Pietikäinen, M.Scs. Over the last few years, people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their rights have gained increasing attention in Finnish media. For example, the leading Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has in some editorials raised the issue of deficiencies in the living arrangements…
It seems safe to suggest that the ethos of welfare state has been the normative foundation of Nordic disability research. But having said that, it seems equally safe to suggest that disability scholars haven’t engaged properly with the normative issues…
Bedding Out: a new performance with virtual participation Bedding In Bedding Out is a response to the UK’s current welfare benefits overhaul, which threatens many disabled people with poverty. It has been associated with the deaths of at least 32…
Kim Wickman, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Education, Umeå University, Sweden Is Swedish education inclusive and does it comprise inclusive teaching? Are schools able to handle normal variations of differences among children and young people in the subject of physical…