Gill Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gill Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gill |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4245-1961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
“An ox sitting on One's chest”
Building on tradition
Introduction Young rural women are disproportionately affected by negative sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. However, few sexual health interventions for rural girls document the systematic process of leveraging the cultural tradition and integrating participant input in the development of SRH interventions. Aligning health interventions with familiar cultural practices increases both cultural congruency and relevance. This study aim…
How End-of-Life Blogs Re-Affirm the “Power to be Oneself”
Powerlessness generally denotes loss of control and may be experienced among those with a terminal diagnosis and, as such, empowerment is a dominant discourse in end-of-life policy in the western Anglo-Saxon world. This paper analyzes thematically blogs authored by three people with a terminal diagnosis to examine the "power to be oneself," a concept which was identified in the "Ethics of Powerlessness" project conducted in the UK. The analysis d…
Drug testing on arrest–who benefits
Impacts of long-standing illness and chronic illness on working hours and household income in a longitudinal UK study
Individuals within households encounter a variety of events including development of a disability or chronic illness. We used data from the Understanding Society, 2009-2016, to determine whether there are changes to working hours or household income as a result of an individual developing an illness. After adjusting for a variety of sociodemographic characteristics, there were few associations observed between one's own individual illness status …
Exploring the Relationship (and Power Dynamic) Between Researchers and Public Partners Working Together in Applied Health Research Teams
Public involvement in applied health research in the UK has become a pre-requisite for receiving funding from some bodies including the National Institute of Health Research. However, much of this involvement has been criticized as being tokenistic with an unequal power dynamic whereby the public voice is consulted but may be ignored. To redress this imbalance more participatory methods of involvement, such as co-production have emerged. This pap…
Ghosts From the Past
This article explores how previous exposure to religious homonegativity features in the sense-making process following HIV diagnosis in a homogenous sample of six gay men living in Northern Ireland. Interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to identify two key overarching themes: Negotiating authenticity in unsafe space, which relates to the experience of negotiating same-sex attraction within religious environments, and Re-emergence of rel…
Is Superdiversity a Useful Concept in European Medical Sociology
Medical sociology has a poor track record of researching diversity in theoretically innovative ways. This paper notes usage of the term superdiversity in migration and urban studies, to ask about its utility in general and more specifically for researching the social production of health and illness. Referring to a multi-country interview study about healthcare seeking strategies, the need to understand the diversification of diversity and the ch…
Making a House in Multiple Occupation a Home
Housing research and sociological research on 'home' has under-explored Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) as a form of specific and relatively marginalised housing tenure. In this paper we utilise data collected through participant photography and interviews with vulnerable HMO residents in a seaside town to explore their experiences of homemaking in HMOs. Drawing on literatures on home, identity and wellbeing we explore how HMO residents crea…
Control and care
Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in which tenants share facilities are housing an increasing proportion of vulnerable adults who have limited affordable housing options. However, knowledge about how these types of property are managed is limited. In this paper, we examine the governance function of HMO landlords from the perspective of landlords/landlord agents and the tenants that live within their properties. The landlord exercises control …
Is a healthy city also an age-friendly city?
Healthy Ageing is an important focus of the European Healthy Cities Network and has been supported by WHO since 2003 as a key strategic topic, since 2010 in cooperation with the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Based on the methodology of realist evaluation, this article synthesizes qualitative evidence from 33 structured case studies (CS) from 32 WHO European Healthy Cities, 72 annual reports from Network cities and 71 quan…
Policymaking in European healthy cities
This paper assesses policy development in, with and for Healthy Cities in the European Region of the World Health Organization. Materials for the assessment were sourced through case studies, a questionnaire and statistical databases. They were compiled in a realist synthesis methodology, applying theory-based evaluation principles. Non-response analyses were applied to ascertain the degree of representatives of the high response rates for the en…
Healthy Cities Phase V evaluation
In this article we reflect on the quality of a realist synthesis paradigm applied to the evaluation of Phase V of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. The programmatic application of this approach has led to very high response rates and a wealth of important data. All articles in this Supplement report that cities in the network move from small-scale, time-limited projects predominantly focused on health lifestyles to the significant inclusio…
Healthy cities as catalysts for caring and supportive environments
'Caring and Supportive Environments' are fundamental to a social model of health and were a core theme of Phase V (2009-13) of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. Deploying the methodology of realist evaluation, this article synthesizes qualitative evidence from 112 highly structured case studies from 68 Network cities and 71 responses to a General Evaluation Questionnaire, which asked cities to analyze city attributes and trends. A schemati…
Pathways to care
The recently developed sociological concept of superdiversity provides a potentially interesting and useful way of developing an understanding of life in contemporary Europe. Here we report on research based on individual narratives about access to health care, as described by a range of people from very different sociocultural backgrounds in four European countries. This article notes the frequent appearance in first-person narratives of the nee…
Youth Justice and Education
The Young Offenders Act that entered Spanish law in 2000 represents a significant attempt to place personalised educational programmes for young people with social/criminal problems at the centre of policy and practice. This paper examines the teams and educational programmes designed to manage and implement the goal of ‘re-socialisation’ enshrined in the Act. This paper focuses on an analytical typology of the educational styles used at young of…
Crafting a future online
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of how independent craftspeople adopt and use social media (SM) in order to promote their creative enterprise. However, some of these opportunities may place a demand for specific knowledge, business and technical skills on untrained artists. The purpose of this paper is to look into this emerging phenomena, the challenges and opportunities it presents and to propose solutions or…
Reflections on sex research among young Bedouin in Jordan
Research about sexuality is characterised by silences and invisibilities. This is particularly evident in some Islamic Arab societies where discussion of sexuality in general is not encouraged and practices such as homosexuality or pre-marital sex are not acknowledged. This creates a barrier to carrying out sex research and also means that much of the research-based knowledge and methodologies developed in a Western setting may have limited appli…
Exploring the ambiguities of masculinity in accounts of emotional distress in the military among young ex-servicemen
The End of Stigma?
This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions. Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by social class and nation, but increasingly the quirky and unique eccentricities of the individual as consumer, reflexive citizen and free agent. But if the hallmark of the post-modern world is endless …
City health development planning
The objective of this evaluation was to review the evolution and process of city health development planning (CHDP) in municipalities participating in the Healthy Cities Network organized by the European Region of the World Health Organization. The concept of CHDP combines elements from three theoretical domains: (a) health development, (b) city governance and (c) urban planning. The setting was the 56 cities which participated in Phase III (1998…
The End of Stigma
The Language of Geography Examinations
Biographical disruption associated with multiple sclerosis
We are not completely Westernised
Exploring the ambiguities of masculinity in accounts of emotional distress in the military among young ex-servicemen
We are not completely Westernised
Who wears the trousers?”
Attitudes towards people with HIV
Pathways to care
The recently developed sociological concept of superdiversity provides a potentially interesting and useful way of developing an understanding of life in contemporary Europe. Here we report on research based on individual narratives about access to health care, as described by a range of people from very different sociocultural backgrounds in four European countries. This article notes the frequent appearance in first-person narratives of the nee…
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Female control of sexuality
Fear and loathing in health care settings reported by people with HIV
People with chronic or terminal diseases not only have to face the biophysical consequences but also the social impact of illness. The social impact or stigma associated with HIV/AIDS is high due to its infectivity and association with deviant behaviour. Social interaction with health professionals is critical for subsequent social adjustment to possession of a discreditable disease, including HIV. This paper examines the subjective reports of 61…
They Say That You Are a Danger But You Are Not
This article is based on an analysis of narratives of 26 offenders with mental health problems living in the United Kingdom. It explores the impact of an ascribed dangerous status and the construction of the self as moral and responsible in response to this label with reference to the literature on denial, deviance disavowal and other "techniques of neutralization and Goffman's presentation of self. Two dominant strands are identified in relation…
Biographical disruption associated with multiple sclerosis
The Quest for Tranquilidad
Now and Again It Really Hits Me
Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered from a sample of 66 seropositive and 67 seronegative men and women about the impact of an HIV diagnosis upon psychosocial well-being. No significant differences between seropositives and seronegatives were found on any of the psychosocial measures except hopelessness. Nor was there significant variation by disease progression (but this may be due to the restricted size of the sample). The qualitativ…
Exploring the Relationship (and Power Dynamic) Between Researchers and Public Partners Working Together in Applied Health Research Teams
Public involvement in applied health research in the UK has become a pre-requisite for receiving funding from some bodies including the National Institute of Health Research. However, much of this involvement has been criticized as being tokenistic with an unequal power dynamic whereby the public voice is consulted but may be ignored. To redress this imbalance more participatory methods of involvement, such as co-production have emerged. This pap…
Is Superdiversity a Useful Concept in European Medical Sociology
Medical sociology has a poor track record of researching diversity in theoretically innovative ways. This paper notes usage of the term superdiversity in migration and urban studies, to ask about its utility in general and more specifically for researching the social production of health and illness. Referring to a multi-country interview study about healthcare seeking strategies, the need to understand the diversification of diversity and the ch…
Control and care
Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in which tenants share facilities are housing an increasing proportion of vulnerable adults who have limited affordable housing options. However, knowledge about how these types of property are managed is limited. In this paper, we examine the governance function of HMO landlords from the perspective of landlords/landlord agents and the tenants that live within their properties. The landlord exercises control …
Ghosts From the Past
This article explores how previous exposure to religious homonegativity features in the sense-making process following HIV diagnosis in a homogenous sample of six gay men living in Northern Ireland. Interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to identify two key overarching themes: Negotiating authenticity in unsafe space, which relates to the experience of negotiating same-sex attraction within religious environments, and Re-emergence of rel…
Making a House in Multiple Occupation a Home
Housing research and sociological research on 'home' has under-explored Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) as a form of specific and relatively marginalised housing tenure. In this paper we utilise data collected through participant photography and interviews with vulnerable HMO residents in a seaside town to explore their experiences of homemaking in HMOs. Drawing on literatures on home, identity and wellbeing we explore how HMO residents crea…
III. Bridging the Gap During the Interview Process
The Quest for Tranquilidad
HIV and Aids in mothers and babies
Who wears the trousers?”
The reproductive careers of a cohort of men and women following an HIV-positive diagnosis
This report examines the consequences of a positive HIV diagnosis upon the reproductive decision-making of 39 men and women in Scotland. Whilst the majority initially decide never to have any (more) children this sometimes changes as other factors gain ascendancy, such as a partner wanting ‘their’ child, and about one-third had had a child or were intending to do so. The motivations underlying such decisions are discussed and ways in which health…
Aids and euthanasia
This paper estimates the proportion of people with HIV who have considered asking assistance to end their lives and explores their motivations and plans of action to hasten death. 16/57 (28%) people with HIV have considered asking for assistance to hasten death, significantly more than seronegative controls (4/67) (3%) (p < 0.001). In follow-up interviews with seropositive respondents the figure increased to 19/57 (33%). The main motivations are …
Attitudes towards people with HIV
Now and Again It Really Hits Me
Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered from a sample of 66 seropositive and 67 seronegative men and women about the impact of an HIV diagnosis upon psychosocial well-being. No significant differences between seropositives and seronegatives were found on any of the psychosocial measures except hopelessness. Nor was there significant variation by disease progression (but this may be due to the restricted size of the sample). The qualitativ…
Evangelical leaders and people with HIV
A concern of much HIV-related public education has been the stigma associated with the disease and campaigns calling for solidarity between people with HIV aim to combat discrimination against them. There is evidence, however, that an influential minority of the population world-wide continues to hold hostile attitudes. The literature reports that religiously committed people are more likely to have less accepting attitudes towards people with HI…
Fear and loathing in health care settings reported by people with HIV
People with chronic or terminal diseases not only have to face the biophysical consequences but also the social impact of illness. The social impact or stigma associated with HIV/AIDS is high due to its infectivity and association with deviant behaviour. Social interaction with health professionals is critical for subsequent social adjustment to possession of a discreditable disease, including HIV. This paper examines the subjective reports of 61…
III. Bridging the Gap During the Interview Process
Women's attitudes to condoms and female-controlled means of protection against HIV and STDs in South-Western Uganda
The consistent and correct use of the male condom makes it highly effective in both disease prevention and as a contraceptive method. However, it is also well recognized that its use is under men's control. Because of this vital limitation, there have been frequent calls for female-controlled methods of HIV prevention, particularly from women from sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report on data collected in focus-group discussions (FGDs) with women ag…
The Endangered Self
To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its effects on the individual's social relationships. …
Men's attitudes to condoms and female controlled means of protection against HIV and STDs in south-western Uganda
There is widespread demand for the development of female controlled methods of protection against sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The success of such methods will depend on their acceptability to women and their male partners. Currently, the only form of HIV prevention under women's control is the female condom. This paper reports on men's attitudes to female controlled methods in southwest Uganda. Data were collected in individual intervi…
Female control of sexuality
The Endangered Self
To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its effects on the individual's social relationships. …
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
We are not completely Westernised
They Say That You Are a Danger But You Are Not
This article is based on an analysis of narratives of 26 offenders with mental health problems living in the United Kingdom. It explores the impact of an ascribed dangerous status and the construction of the self as moral and responsible in response to this label with reference to the literature on denial, deviance disavowal and other "techniques of neutralization and Goffman's presentation of self. Two dominant strands are identified in relation…
Biographical disruption associated with multiple sclerosis
The Language of Geography Examinations
The End of Stigma?
This innovative book investigates the roots of contemporary experiences of stigma, throwing new light on the phenomenon by examining a variety of long-term conditions. Behaviour, lifestyle and identity are no longer the results of mass-production by social class and nation, but increasingly the quirky and unique eccentricities of the individual as consumer, reflexive citizen and free agent. But if the hallmark of the post-modern world is endless …
City health development planning
The objective of this evaluation was to review the evolution and process of city health development planning (CHDP) in municipalities participating in the Healthy Cities Network organized by the European Region of the World Health Organization. The concept of CHDP combines elements from three theoretical domains: (a) health development, (b) city governance and (c) urban planning. The setting was the 56 cities which participated in Phase III (1998…
The End of Stigma
Exploring the ambiguities of masculinity in accounts of emotional distress in the military among young ex-servicemen
Crafting a future online
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of how independent craftspeople adopt and use social media (SM) in order to promote their creative enterprise. However, some of these opportunities may place a demand for specific knowledge, business and technical skills on untrained artists. The purpose of this paper is to look into this emerging phenomena, the challenges and opportunities it presents and to propose solutions or…
Sociology (26 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Family medicine (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 works)