Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside
This paper analyzed the association of social networks with contraceptive use using both structural and attitudinal properties of social networks. Data were collected from seven villages in rural Bangladesh by face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire (N = 694). Sociometric data and t...
Janette Pow, Kaberi Gayen, Lawrie Elliott, Robert Raeside
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to raise the awareness of social network analysis as a method to facilitate research in nursing research. BACKGROUND: The application of social network analysis in assessing network properties has allowed greater insight to be gained in many areas includ...
Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside
This paper examines the association of social networks with the experience of neonatal death and the type of assistance that a woman obtains at childbirth in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected by interviewing 694 women from seven villages using a structured questionnaire. From the use of both soc...
Kaberi Gayen, Ronald McQuaid, Robert Raeside
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association of social networks with being in work, contrasting those under age 50 with those over 50 years. Design/methodology/approach A case study is undertaken of a local labour market in Scotland. Data were collected by interview using a se...
Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside
This paper examines the association of communication in explaining the decision of women in rural Bangladesh to use or not to use contraception. Using survey data from villages in Bangladesh, we found that communication is an important influence on the ideational change for a smaller family norm and...
Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside
BACKGROUND: Child deaths are decreasing throughout South East Asia, yet the rate remains high and is a cause of considerable anguish. In Bangladesh, there is also a great deal of variation in child mortality between different regions. METHOD: Reported in this paper is the analysis of a survey of 613...
Kaberi Gayen
The focus of this paper is to understand the construction of women in the war films of Bangladesh. Analysed here are 26 full length and seven short feature films made on the Liberation War of Bangladesh (muktizuddho), the war through which Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971. The the...
Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside
This paper examines the association of communication in explaining the decision of women in rural Bangladesh to use or not to use contraception. Using survey data from villages in Bangladesh, we found that communication is an important influence on the ideational change for a smaller family norm and...
Kaberi Gayen
This paper reviews Community Radio (CR) in Bangladesh in two steps. Firstly, it gives an exploratory review of the current scenario of the CR in Bangladesh. Secondly, it crticises the government of Bangladesh’s ‘Community Radio Installation, Broadcast and Operation Policy of 2008’ which was publishe...
Kaberi Gayen
The total fertility rate in Bangladesh declined from 6.3 children per women in 1975 to 3.3 in 1997-1999. This decline of 48 per cent over a 25-year period occurred without a substantial improvement in socio-economic status, health conditions and other factors thought to be essential for fertility de...
Gayen Kaberi
The focus of this paper is to understand the construction of women in the war films of Bangladesh. Analysed here are 26 full length and seven short feature films made on the Liberation War of Bangladesh (muktizuddho), the war through which Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971. The the...
Tarun Kanti Gayen, Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside, Lawrie Elliott
The purpose of this paper was to explore group drug taking behaviour in a slum area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. We set out to examine the relationships between those who met, at least weekly, to take illegal drugs together, and how these relationships might shape their drug behaviour. Sociometric and beha...
Robert Raeside, Kaberi Gayen, Jesus Canduela
Many European countries are facing a future of an ageing society. This has arisen from a prolonged period of low fertility. To provide support for the elderly reliance is often placed on support from younger relatives and from friends. To understand more about how these support mechanisms work in th...
Robert Raeside, Kaberi Gayen
It is widely recognised that individuals with high social capital are important in either promoting or acting as inhibitors to the diffusion of knowledge and information. It is through ties to these individuals that others receive knowledge and hence their actions are influenced. Social network anal...