COLLELO: research into loneliness among people with mild intellectual disabilities
- Period: September 2024 – August 2028
- Status: ongoing
People with mild intellectual disabilities experience more loneliness than people without this disability. In this project, researchers from the social sciences and humanities will collaborate with people with mild intellectual disabilities and their formal and informal networks. The aim is to develop an online learning community that seeks to understand and reduce loneliness among people with mild intellectual disabilities.
Description
The abbreviation COLLELO stands for COLlaborative LEarning from LOneliness. A transdisciplinary approach to understand and reduce loneliness together with people with mild intellectual disabilities. An important part of the project is that all partners will jointly set up a learning community around the major social problem of loneliness and share knowledge with each other.
UvH researcher Gustaaf Bos is closely involved in shaping this learning community. He is also collaborating with the Protestant Theological University (PThU) on a sub-project focused on the experiences of loneliness among people with mild intellectual disabilities in different living/working/care situations.
Joanna Wojtkowiak will work on a sub-project with Windesheim University of Applied Sciences on online and offline initiatives that can contribute to community building among young people with mild intellectual disabilities.
Researchers (selection)
- Dr Paul van Trigt (principal applicant, Leiden University)
- Dr Gustaaf Bos
- Dr Joanna Wojtkowiak
Partners
- Leiden University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam,
- PthU (Protestants Theologische Universiteit)
- Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
- Knowledge partners such as LFB, Movisie, Vilans
- Various healthcare institutions
(Co-)funding
Dutch Research Council (NWO), within the thematic programme NWA Loneliness.
Contact
Gustaaf Bos, g.bos@uvh.nl.