Uppeldi og menntun - 01.07.2014, Qupperneq 63

Uppeldi og menntUn/icelandic JoUrnal of edUcation 23(2) 2014 63
linda BjörK ólafsdóttir, snæfríðUr þóra egilson og K jartan ólafsson
ABOUt tHE AUtHOrs
Linda Bjork Olafsdottir (lindabjola@gmail.com) completed her BS degree in occupational
therapy studies in 2012 and MS degree in the School of Health Sciences at the Univer-
sity of Akureyri in 2014. She works as a director of special education in an Icelandic
preschool. Her main research interests include quality of life of disabled children and
adolescents.
Snaefridur Thora Egilson (sne@hi.is) completed her MS degree in occupational therapy
from San Jose State University in California and PhD degree in education from the
University of Iceland. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Social and Human
Sciences at the University of Iceland. Snæfríður’s research primarily focuses on the
environment, participation and quality of life of disabled children, as well as on
services to families of disabled children.
Kjartan Olafsson (kjartan@unak.is) obtained an MA in sociology at the University of
Iceland in 2000. He is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences
at the University of Akureyri and has been a visiting academic at the London School of
Economics and Political Science in London and Masaryk University in Brno. His main
area of research has been in the field of children’s media use.