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, Kirsten J. Fjetland, Inger Marie Lid.

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 people with dementia, through creative craft workshops and other 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 people living with intellectual disability and dementia.

The photo exhibition will be on display in Sandnes from December 3rd till December 31st, 2021. Find out more about the exhibition here.

Collaborators: Colleagues from the Faculty of Health Science, Sandnes, people 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.

Collaborators: Inger Marie Lid

Lead: Ana Koncul

Aim: By exploring lived experiences of people with dementia who use wearables and other smart and self-tracking technologies in their everyday lives, this project aims to address the gap in the literature that otherwise mainly focuses on technological, medical, and cultural aspects of these technologies.

Collaborators: Ruth Bartlett

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

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

More information will be announced closer to the date.

Each year, the CitPro team marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD). Please check 'The CitPro News' section for more information about this year's edition.

More information about the IDPWD: https://idpwd.org/.

In 2023, the CitPro team will host an international symposium ‘Everyday Citizenship for Persons in Vulnerable Situations'. The exact date and more info will be announced closer to the date.