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How We Live Today...’ Florence Ayisi in dialogue with Mo White
No full textRelated Research OutputsAyisi, F. and Brylla, C. (2013) “The Politics of Representation and Audience Reception: Alternative Visions of Africa” in (In)Visibility in African Cultures, Special Issue Volume 44, Issue 2), ed. Norridge, Z. RAL - Research in African Literature. (E-ISSN: 1527-2044).Ayisi, F. (2013 – in press) Making Waves on International Women’s Day: Cameroonian Women’s Dynamism’ in Home/Land: Women Citizenship, Photographies (Eds: Marsha Meskimmon and Marion Arnold) – Liverpool University Press
Inpatients from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds in mental health services in Wales: A secondary analysis of the Count Me In census, 2005–2010
No full textCount Me In
was an annual census of mental health inpatients that was undertaken in England and Wales from 2005 to 2010. Apart from brief, unpublished commentaries by the Welsh government, the data generated in Wales have received little attention and limited analysis. This paper presents a secondary analysis of the census data, with a focus on mental health inpatients from Black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in Wales.Analyses focused on the number and characteristics of patients (age, gender, ethnicity, language and religion), the distribution of patients across Wales, sources of referral, detention status under the Mental Health Act 1983 on admission, and length of stay from admission to census day. The results revealed that the numbers of BME patients from different ethnic groups fluctuated over the 6 years; it was difficult to identify any distinct pattern
Developing the reflexive dimension of reflection: a framework for debate
No full textReflexivity is defined and then explored as a meta-methodology for research as well as a means to stimulate professional development using reflection as a platform. Reflexivity is argued to be a deeper and broader dimension of reflection. A model of reflection, based on critical theory, is introduced to assist with the transition from reflection to reflexivity as the categories of the reflective model provide the foundation for the transition. Solutions are then outlined for the various challenges to reflexivity. A preliminary framework for undertaking reflexivity is introduced in an effort to guide novices in this ever-more necessary adjunct to research and professional development
Termination of pregnancy
No full textThis article outlines both surgical and medical methods of terminationof pregnancy, together with the legal circumstances in which termination can take place. As the number of medical terminations increases, nurses and midwives need to increase their knowledge and skills in this area
Moving goal posts
No full textThe fi rst three years of the new contract of 2006 are about to come to an end, an end to the beginning of a new era in dentistry. The negative predictions of the fortune-tellers pre April 2006 do not seem to have materialised to the extent predicted. Although not perfect many dentists say that they would not like to return to the old contract now that they have experienced the new contract. However, the new system is open to abuse just as much as any system would be and clearly rules and regulations need to evolve for effective management and probity. Since April 2006 the stakeholders involved in the provision of general dental services are no longer just dentists and their patients, now we have primary care organisations managing services so as to satisfy community need. This new stakeholder has direct infl uence on those practitioners providing National Health Services but also indirect infl uence on those in independent practice as ‘competitors’ in an open marketplace. To date primary care organisations have been criticised for continuing to ‘contract’ as opposed to ‘commission’ services in appropriate directions. Therefore, primary care organisations have the diffi cult task of managing services in the direction of improving oral health while ...........
The idea of the continuation/extinguishment of 'Welsh' customary land law in the face of Norman/English conquest and legal regime-change
No full textIn the circumstances of military conquest and revolutionary change, and the consequent resolution of legalities, lawmakers will often attempt to articulate very selective distinctions about the past and the present and about continuities and transformations. The idea of the continuation, or conversely the extinguishment, of customary law is of course a concept which has attracted the attention of historians of the common law, and in the context of land law there has been a particular concern in recent years relating to native title claims in “settled colonies”. In line with common law methodology, precedents endow this discourse; and the Welsh case which is cited as the exemplar of the survival of indigenous laws in post-conquest settlement is Witrong v. Blany (1674) 3 Keeble 401 [84 ER 789]. It has been by way of cases like Witrong v. Blaney that Coke’s analysis of the legalities of conquest informed the Blackstonian declaration of the colonies establishing the paradigm within which we still largely function. However, a close reading of Witrong reveals an indistinct and possibly hesitant judicial position on the effects of the 1535 Act 27 Henry VIII cap. 26, possibly indicating that at its heart this piece of legislation had an inherent ambiguity so far as the idea of continuation or extinguishment of Welsh law was concerned
Gift exchange and organ donation: donor and recipient experiences of live related kidney transplantation
No full textBackground - Live transplantation presents many stressors for donors and recipients, yet a holistic understanding of the process, from both perspectives, is limited. Gift exchange is a theory governed by the principles of giving, receiving and reciprocating and has many similarities with the process of organ transplantation. It may therefore provide a framework for understanding donor and recipient experiences of live kidney transplantation. However, the relevance of this theory to live kidney transplantation has not previously been properly explored
Painting Humanity
No full textResearch ContextThe research context for this project is one of hybridity in form and subverting the standard TV commissioning model. The work centres on The 2008 Artes Mundi 3 exhibition held at the National Museum and Art Galleries of Wales (Praxis theme) and the output was to be a television documentary (Praxis form) the exact nature of which would evolve through the process of making. Research ImperativesMorris’s film ‘Painting Humanity” consisted of portraits of the eight short-listed artists for the third Artes Mundi Prize - Roseangela Renno (Brazil), Susan Norrie (Australia), Adboulaye Konate (Mali), Dalziel and Scullion (Scotland), Mercia Cantor (Romania), Vasco Araujo (Portugal), Lida Abdul (Afghanistan) and the winning artist, NS Harsha (India). The process of creation of the film explored the themes that concerned the work of the shortlisted artists, namely: identity, citizenship, democracy and power, community, life/death and materiality