Activity and Participation

Programme for Activity and Participation

The Programme for Activity and Participation conducts research into how activity-focused and activity-based interventions can support activity and participation in everyday life and promote health and wellbeing for people with reduced functional capacity. The programme focuses on activity as a central component in rehabilitation, prevention and everyday life.

The research takes its point of departure in people’s opportunities to participate actively in everyday life, communities and society, and examines how professionals can support meaningful activity in different contexts. The programme works with both individual and contextual perspectives and contributes knowledge on how activity-based interventions can strengthen citizens’ agency and opportunities for participation.

The programme is practice-oriented and interdisciplinary, developing knowledge in close collaboration with municipalities, practice settings, professionals and citizens. Research designs and methods are applied that make it possible to examine activity and participation in concrete everyday contexts and in interaction with organisational frameworks and conditions.

The programme focuses in particular on:

• activity as a foundation for participation and quality of life

• activity-based interventions in rehabilitation and health

• citizens’ agency and opportunities for participation in everyday life and communities

• professional practice and frameworks for activity and participation

The research programme is anchored in VIA’s Research Centre for Prevention and Rehabilitation. The programme is headed by Head of Programme, Senior Associate Professor and PhD Louise M. Nielsen. Read more on the website: via.dk/forskning/pleje-og-rehabilitering/aktivitet-og-deltagelse