Emil Erdtman
About me
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.
Research
Publications
2025
Journal of Accessibility and Design for All: Practical wisdom for accessible cities (w Müller, Hedvall)
2024
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Universal Design as Co-Creation
Design for All, India: Co-creating urban development
Journal of Urban Design: Between consultation and partnership (m Müller, Hedvall)
Doct: Universell utformning i praktiken
Journal of Accessibility and Design for All: Is the city planned and built for me? (w Müller, Hedvall)
2022
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Let’s move beyond word battles and separatism (w Rassmus-Gröhn, Hedvall)
2021
Lic: Mellan princip och praktik
Scand Journal of Disability Research: Universal Design as Guiding, Striving and Unifying (w Rassmus-.Gröhn, Hedvall)
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