Anna Derksen

Anna is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, Leiden University in the Netherlands. She also works in the Baltic Peripeties international research training school and as a contract lecturer for Nordic History at the University of Greifswald. Her research interests include modern Nordic history, welfare states, national minorities and persons with disabilities, as well as transnational relations and development cooperation. For more information about Anna, click here.

Contributions to nordics.info

21 December 2021 - Anna Derksen

Listen to a podcast about developments in disability policies and movements in the Nordic countries since 1945 in English or Danish! / Lyt til en…

26 August 2021 - Anna Derksen

Following the social and economic transformations after World War II and the ambitious promises of the Nordic welfare model, Nordic disability rights…

Portrait of Kalle Könkkölä sitting at a desk (seems like he is in the middle of being interviewed for a podcast)

23 August 2021 - Anna Derksen

Kalle Kustaa Topias Könkkölä was an environmental activist, politician and key figure of the Finnish disability rights movement. Having been…

Black and white photo portrait of Niels Erik Bank-Mikkelsen on his 75th birthday

06 July 2021 - Anna Derksen

Niels Erik Bank-Mikkelsen was a Danish policy reformer and advocate for the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities. Working for the…

A collage of colourful historic, Nordic stamps.

22 January 2021 - Anna Derksen

During the last century, the situation of people with disabilities in the Nordic welfare states has changed dramatically. For a long time disability…

People of all ages walking on a bridge together. Two elderly people on wheelchairs.

22 December 2020 - Anna Derksen

In 1981, the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) shed new light on the global situation of people with disabilities with the…