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Academic networks and resources

Disabilty studies is not a developed field of academic study in the Netherlands and is not supported by an organized academic network. Research is being conducted to explore the feasibility of developing disability studies. Several people and institutions are involved in doing disability research, but mostly in isolation from each other.

Currently, disability-related academic research is being conducted by the following:

Professor Lisa Waddington of Maastricht University (Faculty of Law), member of the European Expert Group on Non-Discrimination Law, advisor to the European Disability Forum. The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has a special chair (Willem van de Bergh Leerstoel, held by Professor Herman Meijninger) devoted to the social integration of people with intellectual disabilities. The International Forum on Disability Management is represented in the Netherlands by Femke Reijenga (Senior Researcher on disability and work for AStri). The Innovia Foundation, founded in the Netherlands in 2000, is an international, interdisciplinary research network focused on the experiences and position of health care users in the fact of developing health care technology.

The following also conduct research on aspects of disability:

E-Quality, Resource Center for Emancipation, Family and Diversity (Kennis Centrum voor Emancipatie, Gezin en Diversiteit) tracks developments in Europe based on Article 13 of the EC Treaty.
The National Resource Center for Disability Care LKNG (Landelijke KennisNetwerk Gehandicaptenzorg) focuses on the care sector and the needs of patients and clients of care organizations.
The Resource Center for Long-term Care Vilans (Kennis centrum voor langdurende zorg) is also focused on care issues, including rehabilitation.

This initiative is financed by the EC Programme Progress. But the views expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect the official views of the EU institutions.