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Ursula Naue, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria, Member of the Austrian Independent Monitoring Committee on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights...
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Dr. Jo Ferrie, Lecturer Social Research Methods, University of Glasgow and Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, UK I am not long back from the stimulation and challenges of the Disability...
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Dan Goodley, Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies, University of Sheffield, School of Education, D.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk It is perhaps not surprising to disability scholars though still...
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Inger Marie Lid, Associate Professor, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, ingermarie.lid@hioa.no Professor Edward Soja was in Oslo a few weeks ago and gave a guest lecture at...
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Karen Christensen, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway A long time ago – at least as it is defined in the academic world – in the 1990s, the British professor of social policy...
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