A5040473202- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- European history and politics
- German History and Society
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Family Support in Illness
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- Gender, Education, and Development Issues
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Technology Use by Older Adults
University of Edinburgh
2023
University of Sheffield
2008-2021
City, University of London
2021
University of Cambridge
2020-2021
Edinburgh College
2021
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
2019
King's College London
2018-2019
Oxfam
2019
Institute of Population and Public Health
2019
Catholic University of Dry Tropic Farming and Livestock
2019
Objectives To investigate the experiences and views of practitioners in UK Ireland concerning changes bereavement care during COVID-19 pandemic. Design Online survey using a snowball sampling approach. Setting Practitioners working hospitals, hospices, homes community settings across Ireland. Participants Health social professionals involved support. Interventions Brief online distributed widely health organisations. Results 805 respondents hospice, community, hospital completed between 3...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Assistive technologies (AT) are used increasingly in community settings for the management of older adults’ health and care. Despite a rapid increase capabilities uptake these technologies, gaps remain understanding main barriers to their usage. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This systematic review investigated facilitators use AT care adults. PROSPERO: CRD42021266656. <title>METHODS</title> Six electronic databases were searched from January 2011 March 2024....
Abstract The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) aims to improve national ‘health and wealth' by providing infrastructural support enable clinical research in Service settings England Wales. Cognisant of the consequences studies' failure achieve required numbers participants, it also actively campaigns promote patient awareness research, willingness participate trials. In this paper, we analyse recent NIHR policies designed encourage patients interrogate how they are implicated...
Abstract This paper explores six young women's experience of grief following the death their mother. Employing a narrative approach, focus is placed on exploring meanings participants may make from mother and how these are incorporated into sense self. The highlights narratives which emerge through process making meaning can be more complex, ambiguous ambivalent than traditional models account for. Judith Butler's (2004 Butler, J. 2004. Undoing gender, New York: Routledge. [Crossref] ,...
Objective To gain a better understanding of uncertainty regarding the illness experienced by parents children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Methods Parents/guardians child or young person (aged less than 18 years) diagnosed JIA were recruited in United Kingdom via National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society group. Semistructured telephone interviews conducted parents. Results Twenty took part, including 19 mothers and one father. Their mostly female (n = 15; 75%) polyarticular 12;...
Twenty years after the fall of Berlin Wall, consequences country's divided past continue to be debated. The legacy German Democratic Republic occupies a major role in popular culture, with audiences flocking films claiming depict East state as it was. Politicians from both left and right make use its support their parties' approach unification, while former citizens GDR are still working through own memories regime adjusting unification. Since 1989, competing representations have emerged,...
This paper addresses the complex issue of embodiment grief. It explores how a theoretical shift to body has influenced scholarly literature about grief and bereavement. Despite this shift, we argue that bodily interpretations experiences are undertheorised in western psychological on Specifically, linear stage models have encouraged view needs ‘working through’ mind, not necessarily body. We draw empirical data from interviews with bereaved people undertaken England illustrate aspects...
Exhibitions on National Socialist crimes usually present events from the perspective of victims. However, a focus perpetrators can have value in explaining stages leading up to persecution and murder. This essay explores challenges involved representing Nazi German memorial sites, focusing two examples Berlin: House Wannsee Conference Topography Terror. Both sites address bureaucratic perpetration at heart regime. The be interpreted through variety ‘lenses’ but their motivation frequently...
This paper reflects on adapting research methods and processes during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing our experiences of conducting outdoor environment with older people (aged 50+) living in Scotland. First, we discuss challenges to organisation experienced context changing government university guidelines managing delays planned timelines. The shift toward remote stimulated by pandemic transformed traditional notions field. We consider some implications this for research, grounded as it is...
Informed by the developments in autoethnography, narrative analysis and biographical sociology this paper seeks to affirm that understanding our enables self-understanding more importantly of others. Using an autoethnographic approach explores rupture self family identity following two traumatic events: onset a chronic illness (Multiple Sclerosis) death mother. It is story life my mother, who suffered with MS for 9 years sister myself, cared her throughout childhood up 2000. The we...
Between 1939 and 1945, approximately 200,000 patients were murdered under the National Socialist euthanasia program in Germany Austria. For many years, these victims largely excluded from post-war commemorative culture they are yet to attain legal equality with of political or racial persecution. This article considers recent initiatives commemorate euthanasia, focusing on three examples: 1) national memorial information point for "euthanasia" killings Berlin; 2) web portal...