News & Events
28/03/2025: UCG welcomed a student group and their supervisors Franziska Kutzick and Sophie Witt from the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Hamburg. These students work together with UCG students on a project exploring accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities in the city.
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17/03/2025: This Abled City team nominated for ENLIGHT Impact Awards!
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17/02/2025: JTS Grassroots Grant to continue mapping the accessibility of amenities in Groningen. This involves analysing, visualising and sharing geospatial data from our smartphone based data collection app RolMaps, co-created with students and societal stakeholders.
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29/01/2025: Public Engagement Seed Fund for Let’s Roll - visual stories about living with a wheelchair. In this project, in collaboration with UG student Jesse Tamminga, we create a prototype documentary about everyday experiences of wheelchair-users. We use different approaches to visual storytelling and ways in which to engage audiences. The project connects first-hand, lived experiences with scientific concepts and cinematic approaches to storytelling.
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13/12/2024: Wethouder Manouska Molema visits 's Heeren Loo and receives 'This Abled City' book from co-researchers.
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09/12/2024: Co-researcher Tessa Meijer in local newspaper about 'This Abled City' book!
24/11/2024: Team wins UG Open Research Award 2024 for their open research practices!
14/11/2024: In this article on the UG website, Bettina van Hoven and her research team, including co-researcher Leon Lodder, delve into the world of participatory research.
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08/10/2024: Being and Becoming Disabled: New podcast episode UG 'Open Science Bites' with Bettina van Hoven.
03/05/2024: Co-researcher Tessa and Julia Munuera Garcia pick up the newly printed book 'This Abled City: Samen werken aan een toegankelijke en inclusive stad met mensen met een handicap'.
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02/05/2024: Co-researchers present their research at 's Heeren Loo to recruit participants for RolMaps project.
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17/04/2024: Students from the Alfa College Groningen present their games to co-researchers. The students worked on creating digital games as part of a toolkit to create awareness for the experiences of people with disabilities.
20/03/2024: Julia Munuera Garcia wins Rudolf Agricola PhD Grants March 2024!
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05/03/2024: Dr. Bettina van Hoven presents at the symposium "It is a matter of affect: social theory and geographical thought" at Radboud University, Nijmegen.
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29/02/2024: Dr. Bettina van Hoven and PhD researcher Julia Munuera Garcia present at the Cities and Governance seminar series of Lingnan University, Hongkong.
09/02/2024: Co-researchers visit Storyworld exposition at Forum Groningen to learn more about game design.
