About
About me and this site.
Hi, I’m PeO 👋 Professor of Design at Mid Sweden University, and Bevica Guest Professor in Universal Design at Kolding School of Design in Denmark. I have used a wheelchair since 1987 and worked with accessibility, usability and Universal Design for almost as long.
About this site
This is my personal website, a place to write and think aloud, discuss my work, share resources, and connect dots together with people who share my passion for Universal Design. If you share my interest in how we can design for a better world, this site is for you. I hope you find value here. I am by no means alone in this. Most of what I write about grew out of research with colleagues, co-authors, doctoral students, partner municipalities and disability organisations, and it continues in the projects I lead and take part in. Some of the people I work with are named there and in my CV.
Three reasons I write online:
- To experiment with new ways to write, and make a few friends along the way.
- To learn together with others in public as I keep exploring how to work as an academic.
- To share resources and talk about our research from a more personal perspective, grounded in my own experiences.
Contact
The easiest way to reach me is email: hello@peohedvall.com. LinkedIn works too, and you can also find me here:
License
This site is an Open Educational Resource. UNESCO's 2019 Recommendation on Open Educational Resources defines OER as “learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.”
Everything I have created here is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).
You may:
- Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material.
Attribution: give appropriate credit and indicate if changes were made. A simple "Per-Olof Hedvall, peohedvall.com" is enough.
This applies only to content I have created. Any third-party content, such as quoted images, may be under a different license and is marked accordingly.
CV and publications
My positions and education, the projects and grants behind the work, doctoral supervision, the keynotes and talks, and every publication are all on my Full CV.