Past Events

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

The symposium aimed to bring together knowledge-makers from the fields of disability, dementia, and citizenship studies to discuss historical and current trends in understanding and applications of everyday citizenship in relation to persons with disabilities, including people with dementia.

Keynote speakers:

Sonali Shah, Associate Professor in Disability and Life Course Research, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK

Katie Aubrecht, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Canada Research Chair Health Equity and Social Justice, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Christine Kelly, Associate Professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada

Elizabeth Tilley, Professor of Learning Disability Studies, The Open University, UK

James Rupert Fletcher, Wellcome Trust fellow, The University of Manchester

The two-day symposium organized by CitPro aimed to provide a platform for a constructive discussion of participant-centered research methods. It combined academic presentations with hands-on practical workshops on walking interviews, photography, poetry, or sensory methods.

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 took place in Sandnes in 2021.

Television Vest (TV Vest) was invited to attend the opening of the photo exhibition. See the video report here.

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