Disability Studies in Nederland was founded in 2009 as a cooperative initiative of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW), the Handicap + Studie foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), in partnership with the Rehabilitation Fund.
DSiN has been an independent foundation since 2012.
Since 1 july 2015 DSiN has been an official partner organization of the Academy of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD).
DSiN welcomes new (financial) partners.
Organisational structure
The DSiN foundation has a supervisory board, a core team of staff members and several project members. Director / board member is dr. Alice Schippers.
Board members:
Chair: prof. dr. J.J.L. (Jac) van der Klink
Treasurer: Mr. S.J. (Sjoerd) Vegter
Former board members
Prof. dr. Jenny Goldschmidt (until 2018)
Mr. Anton Westerlaken (chair until 2013).
Drs. Theo Hooghiemstra (board member until 2014)
Staff
DSiN has several (internal) staff members, (external) project staff and the endowed Chair in Disability Studies at the Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, department of Medical Humanities.
Director
Senior researcher
Financial & administrative secretariat
Project staff
Multiple (external) project staff members are involved in research-, education- and other projects. The names of the persons involved are mentioned at the respective (project)pages at this website.
Chair
Prof. dr. Alice Schippers
Endowed Chair in Disability Studies
University of Humanistic Studies, location Utrecht,
Endowed Chairs at UvH,