"Self-introduction"
I have become a member of the acting committee of the Research Center
for Ars Vivendi since April 2013. Since I read this e-mail magazine as
a postdoctoral fellow in the past two years, I cannot help feeling a
little strange.
My reserach area is sociology. Especially, I conduct research that
people with disabilities and illness build an organization and form
personal and organizational networks. "Disabilties, aging, illness and
differences", which are research themes of Ars Vivendi, involve
various political actors. Through activities social systems and
policies concerning these themes are formed. In such a process, I
conduct research both on their history and on the possibility the
involved persons have assumed.
Our research center has already started a new activity as a post
Global COE Program since last academic year. I understand that
becoming a member of the acting committee means taking a role as an
actor that is more actively invloved in "disabilties, aging, illness
and differences". Although I get through each day, feeling that
connecting research with practice is not easy, I would like to promote
our projects with your cooperation. Thank you.