Bella Wheeler
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View article: Depictions of the GP crisis: thematic analysis of UK newspapers pre-general election
Depictions of the GP crisis: thematic analysis of UK newspapers pre-general election Open
Background In the six weeks between the announcement of the 2024 UK General Election (22 May) and election day (4 July), national newspapers published numerous articles depicting a “crisis” in general practice. These portrayals varied acro…
View article: Socioeconomic inequality and access to emergency care: understanding the pathways to the emergency department in the UK
Socioeconomic inequality and access to emergency care: understanding the pathways to the emergency department in the UK Open
Objective To examine how socioeconomic deprivation influences referral pathways to emergency departments (EDs) and to assess how these pathways affect subsequent hospital outcomes. Design Retrospective observational study. Setting Emergenc…
View article: Bugbears in the Waiting Room: Revisiting Arber and Sawyer's Classic Study of GP Reception Work Using Ethnography in Eight English General Practices
Bugbears in the Waiting Room: Revisiting Arber and Sawyer's Classic Study of GP Reception Work Using Ethnography in Eight English General Practices Open
In 1985, Arber and Sawyer described the discretionary rationing power of general practice receptionists. Our paper revisits this territory. Much has changed in the intervening decades. Digitalisation has altered reception work. Increasing …
Why Think Through ‘Family’? Open
Chapter 1 sets out the theoretical framework for the book as a whole, introducing the two studies and establishing the critical arguments for thinking beyond a ‘single story’ of the conventional or the ‘troubled’ family. The chapter addres…
Thinking Through Family: Implications for Theory and Practice Open
Chapter 7 concludes the book by drawing together learning from the preceding chapters to consider the value of a sociological lens, and of attention to family practices, for thinking through the conceptualization of family for people who h…
Understandings and Experiences of Parenthood Open
Chapter 6 turns to understandings and experiences of parenthood. It begins by focusing on the experiences of participants who are parents (all but one of whom were mothers), including the implications of child removal for understandings of…
‘How Can We Not Talk about Family When Family’s All That We’ve Got?’: Care and Connectedness Open
The title of Chapter 5 is taken from a song chosen by someone who took part in Against All Odds?, discussing his relationship with his siblings. The chapter builds on the material discussed previously to consider care and connectedness, an…
Doing Family: The Significance of the ‘Ordinary’ Open
Drawing on Morgan’s (2011) conceptualization of family as entailing a sense of the active, and seeking to highlight the (continuing) significance of birth families in care-experienced lives, Chapter 3 addresses the significance of the ‘ord…
Learning From Care Experienced Perspectives Open
Chapter 2 begins with an overview of key policy and legislative contexts for young people in and after care, reflecting on how key family-related features of children’s lives and care experiences (including the presence of siblings, recurr…
Thinking Through Family Open
This is a book about family, based on learning from 35 young adults in England (aged 16–30 years) who were in state care during childhood. Participants were involved in one of two studies that took place between 2015 and 2020, both involvi…
Re/Configuring Boundaries: Who Counts as ‘Family’? Open
Chapter 4 considers how family practices shape family boundaries, considering who ‘counts’ as family and examining family connections over time and through experiences of placement in childhood. Participants in the two studies had very var…
Thinking Through Family: Implications for Theory and Practice Open
Chapter 7 concludes the book by drawing together learning from the preceding chapters to consider the value of a sociological lens, and of attention to family practices, for thinking through the conceptualization of family for people who h…
Why Think Through ‘Family’? Open
Chapter 1 sets out the theoretical framework for the book as a whole, introducing the two studies and establishing the critical arguments for thinking beyond a ‘single story’ of the conventional or the ‘troubled’ family. The chapter addres…
Recognition and Justice? Conceptualizing Support for Women Whose Children Are in Care or Adopted Open
This paper examines the views of mothers who have experienced (or are judged to be at risk of) recurrent removal of children into care or adoption. Drawing on their accounts of working with an intensive 18 month support program called Paus…
Spaces after modernity : a systems based analysis of creativity, community and narrative formation Open
Drawing on principles from systems theory, critical health psychology and narrative analysis, this research sought to examine the relationships between environments that facilitate creative arts-based group work, and notions of self-govern…