The organizers of this initiative were Patrick Devlieger (KULeuven, Belgium), Megan Strickfaden (UAlberta, Canada) and Paula Campos Pinto (ISCSP / ULisboa, Portugal).
The Disability Studies are an emerging field that involves multiple knowledge, perspectives and methods. This summer doctoral program was intended to examine how we can study less obvious perspectives, explore methods that have been used little and consider a kind of knowledge, techne, which can be rediscovered and incorporated into research on disability.