Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming to disseminate innovative, high quality, social research on disability, which enables critical reflection on the position of people with disabilities in different societal contexts.
The journal’s defining characteristic is a focus on the relationship between people with disabilities and their environments. It is multi-disciplinary in scope, incorporating research from a variety of perspectives - such as sociological, historical, cultural studies, health and social policy - which share a commitment to recognising that disability is not a property of the individual person, but something shaped by social relations and structures.
The journal was established by the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR), an association who actively facilitate the sharing and dissemination of social research on disability in the five Nordic countries.
Read more about the journal here.
Today, July 1st 2022, we are happy to announce the name of the new Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research (SJDR). Professor Leslie Swartz, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University assumes the chief editor’s responsibilities after Professor Inger Marie Lid.
Professor Swartz is an honored and highly recognized scholar. He has contributed to the Disability Research field both through his many academic studies and publications, and through his works as a novelist. His latest novel How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying has recently been put on the longlist for the 2022 Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Professor Swartz is the first Editor-in-Chief of the SJDR from a non-Nordic country. His appointment reflects that the journal no longer is a periodical reporting only Nordic research. Professor Swartz has been clear that the journal will continue to increase its reflections of global perspectives on disability under his leadership, particularly perspectives from the Global South. The Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR), who formally appoints the Editor-in-Chief, share these ambitions and wishes the new Editor-in-Chief the best of luck!
Since the SJDR’s transition to an Open Access journal hosted by Stockholm University Press, the journal has had an increased rate of high-quality submissions from scholars around the world. We owe much of this positive development to our editorial team, and it is with the utmost gratefulness we now thank Professor Inger Marie Lid for her services to the journal. Professor Lid took over as Editor-in-Chief in June 2019 and has led the journal through the special circumstances created by the Covid pandemic. Under her leadership, the journal has published a large number of well-written and well-edited papers. The journal has also improved its administrative routines and its economy thanks to Professor Lid’s efforts. In her work, Professor Lid has had the fortune of excellent help and assistance from her co-editors, and we would like to take this chance to express our thanks to two editors who have left their positions this last year: Professor Janice McLaughlin, Newcastle University, and Associate Professor Hisayo Katsui have both worked tirelessly to develop the journal, particularly through the above mentioned transitions to Open Access publishing, and through several special issues of the journal. On behalf of the board of the NNDR, I express our thanks and gratitude for all this splendid work.
Trondheim, July 1st 2022
Patrick Kermit
President of the NNDR
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