The project brings together a team of in all 19 scholars from 12 disciplines within the Humanities, Social Sciences and Health Sciences, having accomplished the research in joint work led by the PI. Significant progress was made the 1st half-time. Ethics approvals for studying all data were approved by the National Ethics Board, the data then analyzed contributing initial results to all WPs to present at conferences and publish. The 2nd half-time was ‘harvest time’ due to this work and advancements generating more findings and publications across all WPs. Major achievements are the guest-editorship by the PI and team of two special journal issues contributing to WPs 3-4: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 2020 Vol. 22(1); The History of the Family 2020, Vol. 25(2). Guest researchers were hosted, one for a whole month (2019), Catherine J. Kudlick (Prof. of History and Director of Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, San Francisco State University, USA), with whom the team organized scientific and public events involving disability stakeholders.
The team’s research and results cover all four WPs. Quantitative life-course examinations of Swedish populations, past and present, show that disability implied fewer opportunities in education, work and to partnership/family also jeopardizing the well-being/health. The level of liveable disabilities was low and remarkably persistent over time. Results from qualitative analyses show how disabled people today experience and talk about their life opportunities, interact on the Internet or in sports, and how media portray disability. Negative values associated with disability in society and culture compromise their opportunities in present-day and help explain their low prospects in major life domains evidenced by the project’s quantitative analyses.
The results are disseminated in 40 publications being OA available (also at the project’s website), 28 of which are in print in scientific journals/volumes. The other 12 works are completed and upcoming, one of which shows all project results (thus entitled similarly, ‘Liveable disabilities’, cf. website). The findings have been presented and well received at leading conferences/workshops worldwide at which the team has held about 55 presentations and organized sessions or workshops. Information about the project and results are further disseminated in media, social media and at public events.
