Mia Larsdotter

Mia Larsdotter is our PhD candidate at Certec/EAT, Department of Design Sciences, LTH/ Lund University.

Mia's doctoral project is about Swedish disability policy. Her initial publications have had a special focus on linguistic discrimination.

"You should be able to live a good life regardless of whether you have a disability or not." This has been said for the past 30 years, regardless of the government constellation.

Why are the goals of the policy not being met? What are the links between the visions and how they are presented and the practical policy conducted?
Is it as Wilhelm Ekensteen said in the book På folkhemmets bakgård (1968), that the prevailing policy: "with a smile of goodness offers us an existence that they would never accept for themselves".

In her doctoral project, Mia investigates how it is possible to present basically the same political vision year after year.

The doctoral studies are funded by, and take place within Mia's employment at, Begripsam.

If you want to support this research, you can do so via
Begripsam's page on Patreon (in Swedish) External link. External link, opens in new window.

Published articles

Within doctoral project:

A chapter on linguistic discrimination during the initial months of the Pandemic, in an internationally published anthology on (in)accessibility, Routledge.
Authors: Liz Adams Lyngbäck, Mia Larsdotter, Enni Paul. 2021.

• New barriers and new possibilities Confronting language inaccessibility in and around a pandemic (in: Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities) External link, opens in new window. External link, opens in new window.

A scientific article on the political status of sign language in Swedish Governmental documentation.
Authors: Mia Larsdotter, Liz Adams Lyngbäck, Stefan Johansson. 2025

• Discursive Discrimination: Ableism and Linguicism in Governmental Documentation – The Case of Swedish Sign Language, External link, opens in new window.(in International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, Vol. 5, Issue 3), External link, opens in new window External link, opens in new window.
  Short version / Lay summary of the article in (written) English has been added alongside the article, at the official site of publication, see link above.

• Short version / Lay summary of the article, in International Sign (IS)
• Short version of the article in (written) Swedish can be found at (internal link)
• Short version / Lay summary of the article, in Swedish Sign Language (STS)

Other publications by Mia Larsdotter

Other articles and reports with Mia as author or co-author can be found at Google Scholar via the link below.

• Published articles by Mia Larsdotter (in Swedish or in English), external link, opens new tab External link. External link, opens in new window.

Contact

Mia Larsdotter, mia.larsdotter@begripsam.com