About the procject

Basic human rights for people with intellectual disabilities have not yet been realized in Norway (NOU 2016: 17 2016). The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) calls for societal change and challenges traditional understandings of what disabilities are. This will form the basis of the project and be explored as citizenship and self-determination.

The project is in the research field for Particepatory Action Research (PAR) and inclusive research. Dialogue conferences are being used, which is a democratic form of meeting that is intended to ensure that all actors have their say. In addition to co-research, focus group interviews and individual interviews of relevant actors are used.

The project is a public PhD with support from the Research Council. The municipality in question has extensive experience in providing services to people with intellectual disabilities, but wants to make the services more sustainable for future challenges concerning demographic and economic development, and in the context of CRPD.

The problem that is explored is: How is citizenship and self-determination expressed in an action research process with service recipients and service providers in a municipal residental housing?

Background

Master in Social studies from University of Stavanger

Research group

Citizenship