Janet Boddy

Janet Boddy is a Professor at University of Sussex (profiles.sussex.ac.uk), Head of School of Education and Social Work, and an Adjunct professor at NOVA, OsloMet.

Her research is concerned with family lives and services for children and families. She has an interest in methodology, particularly qualitative longitudinal and narrative approaches, cross-national research and research ethics and governance. She will talk about how researchers can pay attention to marginalized knowledges and work with own relative privileges. 

Maria Appel Nissen

Maria Appel Nissen is a Professor of Social Work at Aalborg University (vbn.aau.dk). 

Maria Appel Nissen is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work contributes to foundational knowledge on social work theory, practices, and possibilities for social change, based on theoretical and empirical studies of work with children and families in vulnerable positions.

Key research informing this keynote draws on studies of views on human beings in social work, as well as relational, emotional, and embodied practices in social services, alongside more recent work on sustainable everyday lives and strengthening children’s well-being and capacity to act.

The concept of Reflexive Inclusion is central to her research, developed in her PhD and further theorised in the following years.

Yani Hamdani 

PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.)
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Scientist, Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

 

Dr. Hamdani is an interdisciplinary researcher with combined training in rehabilitation, public health, critical social sciences, disability studies and qualitative methodologies. Dr. Hamdani’s research program examines the health, wellness and social inclusion of people labeled with neurodevelopmental. Shifts in how disability is understood and addressed in health and social care policies and practices are central in her research.

Jan Jaap Rothuizen

Ph.D., Docent (Professor of Professional Practice), VIA University College, Denmark.

Rothuizen’s academic background is in the field of general or philosophical pedagogy. His work focuses on understanding the practices of upbringing and education as inherently human and cultural phenomena, always intertwined with questions of value. Educational research inevitably engages both with empirical realities and with normative considerations of purpose. In times of social and political contestation, the question of what constitutes good education becomes especially pertinent.

Jan Jaap Rothuizen - UC Viden - Professionshøjskolernes Videndatabase