Paul Bywaters, Zoebia Ali, Qulsom Fazil, Louise Wallace et al.
It has sometimes been assumed that religiously based explanations for and attitudes to having a disabled child have led to the low uptake of health and social services by ethnic minority families in the UK. A series of semi-structured interviews were held between 1999 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and ...
Qulsom Fazil, Paul Bywaters, Zoebia Ali, Louise Wallace et al.
This paper discusses a qualitative and quantitative study of the circumstances of 20 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with one or more severely disabled children living in Birmingham, England. Parents and other adult carers were interviewed using a combination of structured questionnaires and a se...
Qulsom Fazil, Louise Wallace, Gurnam Singh, Zoebia Ali et al.
The concepts of empowerment and advocacy, and how they impinge on power relationships for service providers working with black and Asian communities, are explored through the findings of a 20-month project carried out between 2000 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families who have children...
Rachel Shaw, Louise Wallace, Manvinder Bansal
This study explored the reasons why young women from low income areas are among those least likely to breastfeed. Focus groups were conducted with 15 health professionals and 11 young, first time mothers were interviewed. Health professionals participating believed that white communities endorsed bo...
Nigel Haggan, Claire Brignall, Louisa J. Wood
This Report documents the presentations given at the World’s first international conference on the management value of the resource knowledge of small scale, indigenous and commercial fishers. The conference was inspired by Dr Robert (Bob) Johannes, whose 1981 Book ‘Words of the Lagoon’, was the fir...
Andrew P. Doherty, Louise Graham, Klaudia Wagner, David L. Officer et al.
Andrew P. Doherty, Sean I. Patterson, Laura Diaconu Diaconu, Louise Graham et al.
Simple ionic liquids exhibit unique physical and chemicalproperties that make them very useful for deployment in electrochemicaldevices such as solvent-free electrolytes in capacitors and batteries.However, incorporating redox functionality into ionic liquidstructures opens up in situ faradaic elect...
Jonathan Rix
Contents 1 Introduction Another place John Parry, Jonty Rix, Rajni Kumrai and Chris Walsh Part 1: More than one way 2 Reciprocal working by education, health and social services: lessons for a less-travelled road Roy McConkey 3 Child and parent relationships with teachers in schools responsible for ...
Kubra Anwar, Louise Wallace
Breastfeeding has a strong religious basis in Islam. The Holy Quran recommends that the mother breastfeed her offspring for 2 years if possible, and states that every newborn infant has the right to be breastfed. However, women from the Pakistani community (where 98 classify themselves as Muslim) ar...
Qulsom Fazil, Paul Bywaters, Zoebia Ali, Louise Wallace
Families with disabled children in the UK experience many interlocking facets of disadvantage and discrimination (Ahmad 2000a). This has contributed to the development of the concept that it is the family as a whole that is disabled by the unjust society in which it fi nds itself. Parents and siblin...