Lead: Ruth Bartlett and Inger Marie Lid

Aim: To find and examine cases of everyday citizenship, and translate these into teaching materials.

Collaborators: Anita Gjermestad and Kirsten J. Fjetland.

Leads: Inger Marie Lid & Anna Chalachanová

Aim: To create a higher education program worth 30 ECTS credits, with academic, educational, and social dimensions for students with intellectual disabilities.

Read more about the first generations of students with intellectual disabilities at VID here.

Collaborators: Colleagues from Institute of health, people with intellectual disabilities, Oslo municipality, Norsk forbund for utviklingshemmede (NFU), Nasjonalt kompetansemiljø om utviklingshemming (NAKU), Stiftelsen SOR.

Finances: The project is supported by Stiftelsen DAM

Lead: Inger Marie Lid

Aim: To build a sound research ethic for research projects using participatory research methodologies, including participatory action research.

Collaborators: Rosemarie van den Breemer, Anne Raustøl, Oddgeir Synnes, Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and Humanities (NESH).

Lead: Oddgeir Synnes, Inger Marie Lid, Anna Chalachanová

Aim: To examine the meaning of everyday citizenship for persons in vulnerable situations to persons with disabilities, including persons with dementia, through creative craft workshops and other participatory and creative methods.

Collaborators: Ruth Bartlett, Kirsten J. Fjetland, Anita Gjermestad

Leads: Kirsten J. Fjetland & Anita Gjermestad

Aim: To elucidate everyday life from the perspectives of persons living with intellectual disability and dementia.

Collaborators: Colleagues from the Faculty of Health Science, Sandnes, persons with intellectual disabilities and/or dementia in partnership with Bachelor students in practical education; Bachelor students from the social education and occupational therapy program.

Cristin Project ID: 2473688

Lead: Rosemarie van den Breemer

Aim: To study the everyday life experiences and role of families in the care of citizens born deafblind from a historical and contemporary comparative perspective.

Find out more here.

Collaborators: Inger Marie Lid

Lead: Ana Koncul

By exploring how the universal design of environments, products, and services can account for the experiences of people who live with dementia and improve cognitive accessibility, this work package brings user participation and lived experience together with the concept of universal design.

Keywords: universal design, user participation, first-person perspective, cognitive accessibility, dementia, intellectual disabilities, cognitive disabilities

Collaborators: Ruth Bartlett, Ingebjørg Haugen

Doctoral project: Elizabeth George

Description: This research project aims to locate and uncover citizenship in the everyday, exploring how people with dementia, through mundane and everyday activities, demonstrate agency and participate in their lives and community in rural Nigeria and the religious and cultural influences (if any) to the actualization of this everyday display of citizenship. An ethnographic and inclusive approach will be adopted to explore the perspectives of people showing signs of dementia in the chosen community, their caregivers, and other members of the community, including religious and traditional leaders.

Co-supervisors: Ruth Bartlett, Ana Koncul, Inger Marie Lid

Doctoral project: Sadeta Demić

Description: This study aims to get an overview of how supported decision making is practiced in current health and welfare services together with people with intellectual disabilities, as well as to explore service providers and relatives experiences with supported decision making in everyday life for people with intellectual disabilities who live in municipalities and who struggle to express themselves verbally.

Co-supervisor: Inger Marie Lid, Rosemarie van den Bremmer, Halvor Hanisch

The CitPro team will host an international symposium ‘Everyday Citizenship and Persons with Disabilities: Pasts, Presents, Futures' on October 4th and 5th 2023 at VID Specialized University, campus Oslo.

Our aim is to bring together knowledge-makers from the fields of disability, dementia, and citizenship studies, to discuss historic and current trends in understandings and applications of everyday citizenship in relation to persons with disabilities, including people with dementia.

More information will be announced soon.

Each year, the CitPro team marks the International Day of People with Disabilities (IDPWD).

The latest IDPWD theme is “Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world“.

Our team of researchers, educators, people with disabilities, activists, and allies is focused on developing inclusive solutions and we are proud of our efforts to honor the theme. Our pioneering higher education program for persons with intellectual disabilities has successfully taken off with the first generation of students, directly contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the focus of this year's theme regarding the reduction of inequality. Our research projects have focused on the everyday lives of people in vulnerable situations, including persons with dementia in Nigeria, and families of persons who are deaf-blind, as well as supported decision-making, and universal design and welfare technologies. Collectively, the work within CitPro is helping to provide transformative solutions for a more accessible and equitable world.

Learn more about the International Day of People with Disabilities here.

27-28 April 2022, VID Specialized University, Oslo

To better pursue participant-centered research in disability studies, a range of creative research methods has been developed. These new methods allow participants to contribute through other means than verbal conversation and address themes that matter to participants in their everyday lives. The two-day symposium organized by CitPro aimed to provide a platform for a constructive discussion of some of these new methods, combining academic presentations with hands-on practical workshops on walking interviews, photography, poetry, or sensory methods.

The symposium opened with a discussion of the state of the art of inclusive research methods in disability studies both in Norway and internationally. The discussion was followed by a presentation of relevant doctoral, postdoctoral, and other projects that employ or develop experimental inclusive methods. The focus was on the benefits and possible research ethical challenges of doing such inclusive research.

Keynote speakers:

Melanie Nind, Professor of Education at the University of Southampton; co-directors of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods;

Ole Petter Askheim, Professor at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences;

Lars Frers, Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science, University of South-Eastern Norway.

The photo exhibition has taken place in Sandnes from December 3rd till December 31st, 2021. Find out more about the exhibition here.

Television Vest (TV Vest) was invited to attend the opening of the photo exhibition. Here you can see the video they made.