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Integration of internationally educated nurses to the UK: the lived experience of nurses with Nigerian heritage in the London region
Get PDFThis study explores the lived experiences of integration of internationally educated nurses (IENs) with Nigerian heritage into UK healthcare using an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. Semi-structured interviews with ten participants using open-ended questions were used to collect data for this study.
The analysis of the data resulted in five master themes:
• Individual opinions, concepts and experiences of integration
• Challenges to integration
• Personal and social integration
• Career progression
• Obstacles and measures to thrive.
Theme one examines understanding integration and the reality of integration; theme two explores experiences of social integration and discrimination issues; theme three explores immigration issues, social relationships, language and cultural currency and pension issues. Theme four explores issues around education, mentorship/access to coaching, and individual characteristics. Lastly, theme five explores employers' practices and discriminatory practices.
The study contributes to the sparse literature on the lived experience of internationally educated nurses (IENs) on integration into UK healthcare. It offers insight and further understanding into the post-transition phases and the long-term integration of the internationally educated nurse (IEN) with Nigerian heritage into UK healthcare. The findings suggest that integration in the UK and UK healthcare services is a complex phenomenon shaped by immigration processes, employers' practices, social capital, discrimination, mentoring and personal characteristics such as education, resilience, motivation and personal values. The findings from the sample also suggest that most of the highly successful IENs of Nigerian heritage in UK healthcare tend to be those who had tertiary education in Nigeria before becoming registered nurses in the UK.
In light of the findings, the recommendations include further research on understanding the concept of nurse integration and how internationally educated nurses to thrive in UK and UK healthcare
The book of the dead
No full textThe academic introduction to the book considers the nature of death as it has been described by a whole range of world religions, faiths, sciences and popular cultures. The rest of the book then provides creative responses (short stories) directly related to the introduction
Experience of therapist immigrant from Poland in times of Brexit: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Get PDFLeaving the European Union (EU) has involved extensive changes in British economic and social reality. Brexit referendum is a unique event, since no other member state has ever decided to exit the European Union. Brexit has not only implied a political change but, more than anything, a major social change in immigrants’ life.
This qualitative research project uses Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the experience of therapist immigrants from Poland in times of Brexit. The study will attend to capture subjective experience of Brexit, how it affects counsellors and psychotherapists from Poland, including shifts, changes, and the impact on personal and professional life. Eight participants took part in the research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the transcribed data were analysed.
Themes emerged from the data revealed how participants made sense of complexity, uncertainty, and possible changes in their professional and private life. Themes that appeared to be significant included feelings of otherness and betrayal by the British society. Participants experience remained invisible and their voices were silenced during the Brexit debate. Participants also identified lack of adequate professional support. This research contributes towards a deeper understanding of social changes and their impact on mental health. The findings of this study contribute to the body of literature regarding the mental health of immigrants, in particular immigrant therapists from a counselling psychology perspective. It is hoped that the study will encourage therapists to reflect deeper on the tentative interplay between, broadly speaking, mental health and politics. It is considered that by opening up the space for understanding the difficulties of the political situation and admitting the challenges of the material, therapists expand the range of emotional availability. Possible future research has also been explored based on the findings. This study and its findings contribute to the expanding Brexit research literature with an IPA methodology and in the context of Counselling Psychology
Drivers of far-right extremism
Get PDFThis chapter is a comprehensive literature review of the 'drivers' of far-right extremism. It offers a brief historical analysis, explores 'micro', 'meso' and 'macro' dimensions of far-right radicalisation, as well as the role of gender and youth. The chapter focuses on the current reconfiguration of far right extremism in Europe, in particular its relationship with broader social, cultural and political processes
Christian contemplative prayer: a grounded theory exploration of well-being and embodiment within Christian spirituality
Get PDFChristian contemplative prayer (CCP) is a spiritual and religious form of receptive meditation rooted in scriptural teachings and ancient practices. Despite its growing popularity, there is limited empirical evidence related to CCP long-term practitioners’ lived experience. Although scholars suggest CCP influences practitioners’ well-being, the importance of embodiment within this practice is under-theorized. CCP scholarship has primarily investigated: 1) psychotherapy intervention, 2) phenomenological investigation, and 3) well-being related to this prayer practice. This thesis examines the lived experience of long-term CCP practitioners, within their prayer practice. Drawing on participant semi-structured interview data, this thesis utilizes a grounded theory methodology to generate a conceptual framework that integrates CCP practice, well-being, and embodiment. This framework suggests practitioners’ perspective of well-being, as reflected within a self-reported eudaemonic context. It also suggests an integrated aspect of embodiment within this prayer practice related to: Embodied Self, Embodied in Christian Community, Embodied Space, and Embodied in God. Aspects of Christian spirituality including lived experience, conscious process, holistic development, self-transcendence towards God, and uniqueness of individual’s spiritual experience also helped to orient and explore the emergent participant data. The findings further emerged with greater understanding of the diversity found within the actual practice of silent, embodied CCP. Each of these aspects help to develop a substantive grounded theory integrating CCP practice, well-being and embodiment in the lived experience of long-term CCP practitioners
An exploration of how young people who have offended conceptualise the term ‘family’
Get PDFThis research project aimed to explore how young people who have offended conceptualise the term ‘family’. This was important because ‘family’ has played a central role in policy, theory and research concerning young people who have offended; however, children and young people’s understandings and experiences of ‘family’ has largely been ignored in policy and research that concerns them. Following a grounded theory methodology (GTM) a policy document analysis was conducted to explore how the term ‘family’ has been constructed and defined in policy that concerns young people who have offended. Then, primary data was generated in collaboration with young people to further understand how they conceptualise the term ‘family’, and in essence, what this word means to them. Using questionnaires and focus groups, this facilitated discussions with the young people to discuss the meaning of ‘family’ at their own pace and in the presence of peers from a similar background. The young people who participated in this research were chosen due to their offender status in the youth justice system (YJS), however, many of them also chose to self-report experience of being a looked after child (LAC). The young people were drawn from two geographical locations: London and Glasgow.
Key themes that were drawn from the empirical research identified that the young people placed more emphasis on the emotional aspects of ‘family life’ than on the presence of specific ‘family members’. The discussions centred around the importance of love, trust and safety, in determining who should be considered ‘family’, which was significantly different to much of the previous research reviewed. Therefore, this thesis presents an original contribution to knowledge, that young people who have offended use a variety of diverse and flexible ways to conceptualise the term ‘family’. The language used to describe the term ‘family’ was largely based on their own personal experiences of ‘family’ and ‘family life’, which for some of the young people, was significantly affected by their time spent in the care system. The findings from this research not only provide an original contribution to knowledge in the varied and dynamic ways in which young people who have offended choose to describe and define the term ‘family’, but the findings also complement and add to the emerging but limited evidence-base of research that seeks to place children and young people’s voices at the centre
Lived experiences of mental health recovery in persons of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds within the Australian context
Get PDFLived experience research related to mental health recovery is advancing, but there remains a lack of narrative material from the perspectives of people from under-represented, non-dominant cultural backgrounds in this domain. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of mental health recovery in people of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in the Australian context. The current study involved a secondary analysis of audio and visual data collected during the digital storytelling project Finding our way in Melbourne, Australia. Thematic analysis was used to understand the lived experience narratives of nine participants in relation to mental health recovery. Five themes were identified through an iterative process of analysis, including Newfound opportunities and care, Family as key motivators and facilitators, Coping and generativity, Cultivating self-understanding and resilience, and Empowerment through social engagement. First person lived experience narratives offer deep insight into understanding the ways in which individuals of marginalised communities conceptualise and embody recovery. These findings further the literature and understanding on how to better serve the needs of people with mental health challenges from CALD communities through informed knowledge of what may be helpful to, and meaningful in, individuals’ recoveries
Deklare! Erhebe deine Stimme! Schreie auf! Klage an! Prangere an! Uber Feministische Kunstmanifeste
No full textThis catalogue essay begins with a manifesto about feminist art manifestos and is followed by an analysis of feminist art manifestos themes and ideas
Compound Poisson approximation
Get PDFWe overview the results on the topic of compound Poisson approximation to the distribution of a sum Sn=X1+⋯+Xn of (possibly dependent) random variables. We indicate a number of open problems and discuss directions of further research
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of forced marriage for diasporic south Asian women who have left
Get PDFForced marriage (FM) was criminalised in the UK in 2014 as it was described as little more than slavery by the Prime Minister. The consequences of FM can include physical, emotional, and financial abuse, disruption to education, damage to career opportunities, enforced pregnancy, rape, abortion, abduction, mutilation, and murder. The UK is supplementing the criminalization of FM with interagency protocols to protect women involving healthcare and other professionals as victims of FM may not get another opportunity to tell someone what is happening to them. The “one chance rule” guidelines stress the importance of acting swiftly to secure endangered individual’s safety by removing them from their families. The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of eight diasporic south-Asian adult females who experienced FM in the past?
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) analysed interview data from which Six major themes were identified: In theme one participants described how they learnt about their unexpected impending FM and felt disappointed that their dreams of a fairy tale wedding had been shattered. The second theme explored how participants experienced inequality against patriarchy because they felt that the hegemonic system which favoured males was heavily tilted against females. The third theme explored how after participants became aware of patriarchal domination and realised, they were the victims of such subjugation, each participant looked for ways to challenge patriarchal hegemony. In theme four participants expressed a desire for sexual equality from their patriarchs; but were sorely disappointed to learn that the sharing of power was simply not an option open to them; this impasse led to confusion and conflation between arranged marriage (AM) and forced marriage (FM). In theme five participants came to conclude that they would be better off accepting their AM/FM rather than exiting their community/culture. In the final theme Patriarchy was identified as the root cause of FM; participants rejected hegemonic male patriarchy leading to hard-won emancipation. Participants finally felt courageous enough to speak their mind and defend their individual interests over and above that of their family/clan. Since participants confused and conflated arranged marriage with forced marriage, it was concluded the ‘one chance rule’ is a dangerous strategy as it deprives women of choice. A psychotherapeutic framework for counselling clients who presented for FM was devised for clinicians to screen for FM, HBV or DV based on insights gained from this dissertation. Furthermore, the research process showed that the problem of FM was inextricably linked to the historic role of British colonial Empire and subsequent conflict in disputed Kashmir. The phenomenon of FM turned out to be a complex but relatively rare practice since all participants had conflated AM/FM and the Forced Marriage Unit had only secured three convictions since 2014. Recommendations included withdrawal of ‘one chance rule’, apologising to the south Asian people for Britain’s direct rule of south Asia, resolving the conflict in Kashmir with a power sharing agreement between India and Pakistan and providing Existential counselling on NHS for women who believe they experienced FM