Health and Welfare
Welfare research
This group deals mainly with understanding the complexity of how people perceive their everyday lives in relation to the opportunities and limitations of citizenship.
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The group's umbrella perspective is Welfare Research. More specifically, it encompasses national, international and transnational, or in other words glocal, welfare studies, where the role of the civil society is of special interest. Moreover, this overall perspective facilitates a deeper approach on group members’ individual research subjects. This is exemplified by studies regarding children and older people as well as persons with disabilities. Countries included, apart from Sweden, are China, India, Japan, South Korea, UK, US and Thailand. In this group, we also have various collaboration agreements with different universities. We aim for a mix of PhD students and senior researchers, for an academic environment which is mutually conducive.
Ongoing research projects
The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of participation for adults with cognitive disability (> 18 years) in co-ordinated individual planning (CIP) from different perspectives and to analyse in what way professional creates conditions for the individual's participation in CIP.
Project manager at MDU: Liv Nordström
Main financing: FoU i Sörmland, municipalities and Region i Sörmland