This research topic focuses on analysis of different ethical, political and theoretical problems linked with how human diversity is understood and observed in community organisations.

This research topic deals with the various normative issues relating to human diversity. It tackles theory, ethics and policies of difference and disability. This means that various institutional responses to human diversity, such as special education and disability policies, are analysed critically with a view to understanding the methods, knowledge, convictions and values on which they are based, and those that they promote. The purpose of such critical engagement is not merely to enhance understanding of how communities and their institutions respond to diversity, but also to provide tools for change; improvement of institutional practice and authorisation of individuals and groups that are considered to be different, disabled or marginal.

Research into these issues is based on an interdisciplinary foundation of the complex empirical and theoretical nature of diversity. The practical issues examined include ethics and policies for inclusive education, biopolitics of disability and how the various dimensions of well-being and social fairness are materialised in the lives of disabled people.