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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:...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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