Stig Larsson, Ph.D.
Chairman of the RI Work and Employment Commission. He is a board member in GLADNET, a network of researchers initiated by the ILO, International Labour Organisation.
Professor Larsson took his Ph.D. in sociology in 1983 and he became professor in 1992. Since 1997 he is Director for HAREC, Disability and Rehabilitation Research Centre at Lund University, where he has been close co working with Bengt Lindqvist, the first UN special rapporteur in the disability field, who is the chairperson at HAREC.
Larsson is the author (or co-author) of 18 books and hundreds of articles in scientific journals and anthologies. The most important scientific area where he has addressed his research is maybe social theory, social marginalizing and social policy. Since some years Larsson belongs to the leading Scandinavian researchers in the disability field. In this role he has been engaged in many different programmes in research and higher education. He is president of the Swedish Association of Social Policy. Stig Larsson himself is visually impaired and one of the very few leading international scholars who personally have experienced disablement.