Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

About this Journal

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research is an international peer-reviewed journal aiming to disseminate leading social research on disability.

The journal’s defining characteristic is a focus on the relation between persons with disabilities and their environments, it is multi-disciplinary in scope incorporating research from a variety of perspectives including:

- Educational
- Sociological
- Socio-psychological
- Historical
- Legal
- Economics
- Socio-medical
- Cultural Studies
-Social Policy

The journal was established by the Nordic Network on Disability Research, an association that has as one of its objectives to facilitate the sharing and dissemination of social research on disability in the five Nordic countries. An important ambition is to encourage researchers from all countries to submit articles for publication, as well as to be a source of information about what is going on in critical research on disability internationally. This policy is reflected in the panel of consulting editors from several different countries.

The journal is now open for submissions

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research will be published by Stockholm University Press from the 2018 volume and onwards. The new publishing agreement includes online publication of all journal material with a CC-BY 4.0 Open Access license. Please submit your article for evaluation through our new manuscript management system. Authors who have published articles in the journal in the past four years will already have an account registered in their name. New authors are asked to register before submitting their manuscript. For further information, see our author instructions.

Posted on 17 Jan 2017

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