Emil Erdtman

I defended my thesis in 2024 at Lund University with the dissertation Universal Design in Practice: Understanding, Implementation and Co-Creation. The focus was collaboration for inclusive urban development. I employed ethnographic methods with interviews, workshops and participatory observation in three Swedish municipalities. After the dissertation, I coordinated a focus group on the path to work for migrants with disabilities, then using Appreciative inquiry as a method. I am now also working on a study on the development of assistive technology in Sweden during the second half of the 1900s. Innovation climate, user participation and welfare policy are themes that are touched on there. At Stockholm University, I am working within the project "Living conditions from adolescence to old age for people with disabilities" together with Professor Dan-Olof Rooth. I coordinate our contacts with companies, organizations and individuals.