Neil Small
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 248094 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Small |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Small |
| FIRMA | SMALL N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4426-3596 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The hollowing out of the state and the impoverishment of the public sphere
Confidence in Britain’s democracy is at a low point. A generation-long neoliberal ascendancy wants the state to keep out of its way. At the same time, a withdrawal from the public world into the private reduces our social capital and leaves us feeling vulnerable. That vulnerability can be nudged towards fear and then hostility to those ‘not like us’. Populists build on the failings of our democracy and on the anxieties of those isolated from the …
A City “Collabatory”
Improving children's health and development in their early years is important, urgent and, cost‐effective. But it's difficult to do. Using an example from Bradford in the UK we argue that integration, innovation and community engagement are key. Long‐term funding also helps. Problems with multiple causes need “whole system” responses. This includes integration of research, commissioning and service delivery. We test innovations, learn about how t…
What sort of growth is good
Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity
Using a Foucauldian perspective, we explicate the systems of power which shape the lives of women in or at risk of ‘food poverty’. We develop a theoretical framework of power for analyses of contemporary food poverty, which we apply to data from focus groups with women on low incomes in two cities in the north of England. Our data underlines the repressive power of the state as well as the broader chronicity of state surveillance. We argue that, …
Assessing community readiness for early intervention programmes to promote social and emotional health in children
OBJECTIVE: Evidence for early intervention and prevention-based approaches for improving social and emotional health in young children is robust. However, rates of participation in programmes are low. We explored the dynamics which affect levels of community readiness to address the issues of social and emotional health for pregnant women, young children (0-4 years) and their mothers. SETTING: A deprived inner-city housing estate in the north of …
Growing up in Bradford
Our multi-method approach to recruitment and assessment provides an efficient method of collecting rich data on all family members. Data collected will enhance BiB as a resource for the international research community to study the interplay between ethnicity, socioeconomic circumstances and biology in relation to cardiometabolic health, mental health, education, cognitive and sensorimotor development and wellbeing
Integrating research and system-wide practice in public health
Many interventions that are delivered within public health services have little evidence of effect. Evaluating interventions that are being delivered as a part of usual practice offers opportunities to improve the evidence base of public health. However, such evaluation is challenging and requires the integration of research into system-wide practice. The Born in Bradford's Better Start experimental birth cohort offers an opportunity to efficient…
The Incompatibility of System and Lifeworld Understandings of Food Insecurity and the Provision of Food Aid in an English City
We report qualitative findings from a study in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city with high levels of deprivation. Primary research over 2 years consisted of three focus groups and 18 semi-structured interviews with food insecurity service providers followed by focus groups with 16 White British and Pakistani women in or at risk of food insecurity. We consider food insecurity using Habermas’s distinction between the system and lifeworld. We examine…
Addressing obesity in Roma communities
Purpose Participation in community programmes by the Roma community is low, whilst this community presents with high risk of poor health and low levels of wellbeing. To improve rates of participation in programmes, compatibility must be achieved between implementation efforts and levels of readiness in the community. The Community Readiness Model (CRM) is a widely used toolkit which provides an indication of how prepared and willing a community i…
Endogamy, Consanguinity and the Health Implications of Changing Marital Choices in the Uk Pakistani Community
The biraderi (brotherhood) is a long-established, widely prevalent dimension of social stratification in Pakistani communities worldwide. Alongside consanguinity, it offers a route for cementing social solidarities and so has strong socio-biological significance. A detailed breakdown of biraderi affiliation among participants in an ongoing birth cohort study in the northern English city of Bradford is presented. There is historical resilience of …
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu&s;s work was concerned with the dynamics of power in society and the way power is transferred and social order maintained within, and across, generations. Bourdieu was concerned with the form of sociological work as well as its content. He sought to assess and reconcile the influences of external social structures and subjective experience on the individual. A great deal of research in sociology has been focused on patterns of hea…
“Bringing heaven down to earth”
Purpose This paper uses data from a city with a multi-ethnic, multi-faith population to better understand faith-based food aid. The paper aims to understand what constitutes faith-based responses to food insecurity, compare the prevalence and nature of faith-based food aid across different religions and explore how community food aid meets the needs of a multi-ethnic, multi-faith population. Design/methodology/approach The study involved two phas…
All in It Together? Community Food Aid in a Multi-Ethnic Context - Corrigendum
The following acknowledgement was omitted from the original publication:The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the BBSRC (The Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council) for the funding of IKnowFood at York which is 4-year research programme being funded through the Global Food Security-Food System Resilience programme with contributions from BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, and the Scottish Government.The authors apologise for this oversight
All in it Together? Community Food Aid in a Multi-Ethnic Context
This paper derives from a study of community food aid in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city in the North of England. The paper begins to make sense of the diversity of types of food insecurity assistance, examines the potential exclusion of certain groups from receipt of food aid, and explores the relationship between food aid providers and the state. Faith-based food aid is common in the case study area, particularly among food bank provision to t…
Consanguinity, Genetics and Definitions of Kinship in the Uk Pakistani Population
Consanguineous marriage is a controversial topic in many Western societies, with attention mainly focused on the health of immigrant communities from Asia and Africa. In the UK consanguinity is especially prevalent in the Pakistani community, which now numbers over 1.1 million. Less attention has been paid to the influence of hereditary population stratification within Pakistani communities, in particular biraderi (literally brotherhood) membersh…
Born in Bradford’s Better Start
The focus of the BiBBS cohort is on intervention impact rather than observation. As far as we are aware BiBBS is the world's first such experimental birth cohort study. While some risk factors for adverse health and social outcomes are increasingly well described, the solutions to tackling them remain elusive. The novel design of BiBBS can contribute much needed evidence to inform policy makers and practitioners about effective approaches to impr…
The Happy (Healthy and Active Parenting Programmme for early Years) feasibility randomised control trial
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN56735429
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
Addressing key issues in the consanguinity-related risk of autosomal recessive disorders in consanguineous communities
Is ethnic density associated with health in a context of social disadvantage? Findings from the Born in Bradford cohort
In this sample, ethnic density was associated with lower odds of smoking during pregnancy but not with higher birth weight or lower odds of preterm birth. Possibly, high levels of social disadvantage inhibit positive effects of ethnic density on health
Using latent class analysis to develop a model of the relationship between socioeconomic position and ethnicity
LCA allows different aspects of an individual's SEP to be considered in one multidimensional indicator, which can then be integrated in epidemiological analyses. Ethnicity is strongly associated with these identified subgroups. Findings from this study suggest a careful use of SEP measures in health research, especially when looking at different ethnic groups. Further replication of these findings is needed in other populations
A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health
Examining the family-centred approach to genetic testing and counselling among UK Pakistanis
The contemporary relevance of Glaser and Strauss
The Hospital Personnel, Nursing Care and Dying Patients study, undertaken in California in the mid 1960s, generated a body of work that continues to be influential in end of life care research. Key points from the study are summarised, as are contributions from researchers who have responded to Glaser and Strauss invitation to examine further settings and, in so doing, provide data that helps refine their theory. The example of people with heart …
Infant Mortality and Migrant Health in Babies of Pakistani Origin Born in Bradford, UK
Bradford, in northern England, has attracted migrants since the nineteenth century. The most recent group, from Pakistan, began to arrive in the 1950s. There is now a three-generational Muslim community of Pakistani origin. The interaction of migration, ethnicity and deprivation in Bradford is considered by focusing on infant mortality. This is higher in Bradford than overall UK averages. The highest rates are in babies of first-generation migran…
Older people's views of a good death in heart failure
The case for a sociology of dying, death, and bereavement
Dying, death, and bereavement do not occur in a social vacuum. How individuals and groups experience these phenomena will be largely influenced by the social context in which they occur. To develop an adequate understanding of dying, death, and bereavement we therefore need to incorporate a sociological perspective into our analysis. This article examines why a sociological perspective is necessary and explores various ways in which sociology can…
Disability and identity
Through examining the case of people with epilepsy (which, as we demonstrate, has an ambiguous status in relation to both popular and academic conceptions of disability) we explore the fluid, negotiable and contingent nature of identity and, in particular, the identification as ‘disabled’. Disability, we argue, cannot be reduced to either biology or social oppression, or even primarily to biological or social factors: it is the outcome of a compl…
All in it Together? Community Food Aid in a Multi-Ethnic Context
This paper derives from a study of community food aid in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city in the North of England. The paper begins to make sense of the diversity of types of food insecurity assistance, examines the potential exclusion of certain groups from receipt of food aid, and explores the relationship between food aid providers and the state. Faith-based food aid is common in the case study area, particularly among food bank provision to t…
She would help me from the heart
Electronic Medical Records in Diabetes Consultations
Two routine consultations in primary care diabetes clinics are compared using extracts from video recordings of interactions between nurses and patients. The consultations were chosen to present different styles of interaction, in which the nurse's gaze was either primarily toward the computer screen or directed more toward the patient. Using conversation analysis, the ways in which nurses shift both gaze and body orientation between the computer…
Providing welfare advice in general practice
General practices in the UK are increasingly hosting welfare advice services on their premises to address patients' social and economic needs. In this paper, the authors present the outcomes of a service providing welfare advice across 30 general practices in inner-city Bradford. A retrospective study of all patients referred for advice during the initial 24 months of the project was conducted. The following information was collected: patient dem…
Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity
Using a Foucauldian perspective, we explicate the systems of power which shape the lives of women in or at risk of ‘food poverty’. We develop a theoretical framework of power for analyses of contemporary food poverty, which we apply to data from focus groups with women on low incomes in two cities in the north of England. Our data underlines the repressive power of the state as well as the broader chronicity of state surveillance. We argue that, …
The Incompatibility of System and Lifeworld Understandings of Food Insecurity and the Provision of Food Aid in an English City
We report qualitative findings from a study in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city with high levels of deprivation. Primary research over 2 years consisted of three focus groups and 18 semi-structured interviews with food insecurity service providers followed by focus groups with 16 White British and Pakistani women in or at risk of food insecurity. We consider food insecurity using Habermas’s distinction between the system and lifeworld. We examine…
What really annoys me is people take it like it's a disability’, epilepsy, disability and identity among people of Pakistani origin living in the UK
This paper reports on a study of Pakistani people with epilepsy. It explores their attitudes towards their condition, others' attitudes, its impact on their lives, and the extent to which they considered themselves as disabled. Epilepsy was variously interpreted within biomedical, folk and religious paradigms. In line with popular understandings, participants associated disability with stable, permanent and visible physical impairments and did no…
Is ethnic density associated with health in a context of social disadvantage? Findings from the Born in Bradford cohort
In this sample, ethnic density was associated with lower odds of smoking during pregnancy but not with higher birth weight or lower odds of preterm birth. Possibly, high levels of social disadvantage inhibit positive effects of ethnic density on health
Patient views of social service provision for older people with advanced heart failure
The objective of the present paper is to explore levels of social service provision, the barriers to receiving these services and the experiences of social service provision amongst older people with heart failure. Five hundred and forty-two people aged over 60 years with heart failure were recruited from UK general practices in four areas of the UK, and these subjects completed quality-of-life and service-use questionnaires every 3 months for 24…
Aids and social policy
Social Policy responses to AIDS are much in accord with prevailing practice in other areas, the constructs used are typical of crime and disorder rather than illness and treatment. This article analyses the implications of this particularly as it relates to policy on prevention. It questions the value of using analytic frameworks evolved in identifying moral panics and suggest that homophibic and racist social policy responses to AIDS link with a…
Putting violence towards social workers into context
The phenomenon of violence towards social workers is examined using two complementary approaches. The first is a detailed description of the incidence of violence both in social work and more generally in society. The second is arz examination of changing practices in social work and a changing dynamic within society both of which will make social work more difficulet. My approach involves an interplay between specific observation and theoretical…
Community Social Work in China and Britain
Aids and social policy
Social Policy responses to AIDS are much in accord with prevailing practice in other areas, the constructs used are typical of crime and disorder rather than illness and treatment. This article analyses the implications of this particularly as it relates to policy on prevention. It questions the value of using analytic frameworks evolved in identifying moral panics and suggest that homophibic and racist social policy responses to AIDS link with a…
Putting violence towards social workers into context
The phenomenon of violence towards social workers is examined using two complementary approaches. The first is a detailed description of the incidence of violence both in social work and more generally in society. The second is arz examination of changing practices in social work and a changing dynamic within society both of which will make social work more difficulet. My approach involves an interplay between specific observation and theoretical…
Dying in a Public Place
Aids
The Development of Social Welfare in Britain (Book)
Death of the authors
Oscar Moore told of his experience as a person with AIDS in a monthly UK newspaper column. Harold Brodkey wrote in the New Yorker of the time after his AIDS diagnosis; he called this writing "the story of my death". Both authors died in 1996. This article starts with a reading of their chronicled and public dying. It then follows these authors in considering the prescient links between sex and death. Moore and Brodkey are not the only people who …
Death, Gender and Ethnicity
Ethnicity, class and health
Providing welfare advice in general practice
General practices in the UK are increasingly hosting welfare advice services on their premises to address patients' social and economic needs. In this paper, the authors present the outcomes of a service providing welfare advice across 30 general practices in inner-city Bradford. A retrospective study of all patients referred for advice during the initial 24 months of the project was conducted. The following information was collected: patient dem…
What Does the Use of a Computerized Checklist Mean for Patient-Centered Care? The Example of a Routine Diabetes Review
The authors examine the interaction between nurses and patients with type 2 diabetes during routine consultations in primary care settings in the United Kingdom. Through preconsultation interviews, the authors identified the patients’ expectations. The article draws on videotaped consultations with 25 patients with type 2 diabetes. Using conversation analysis, the authors examine the use of a rigid agenda, imposed via a computerized checklist, an…
She would help me from the heart
What really annoys me is people take it like it's a disability’, epilepsy, disability and identity among people of Pakistani origin living in the UK
This paper reports on a study of Pakistani people with epilepsy. It explores their attitudes towards their condition, others' attitudes, its impact on their lives, and the extent to which they considered themselves as disabled. Epilepsy was variously interpreted within biomedical, folk and religious paradigms. In line with popular understandings, participants associated disability with stable, permanent and visible physical impairments and did no…
Patient views of social service provision for older people with advanced heart failure
The objective of the present paper is to explore levels of social service provision, the barriers to receiving these services and the experiences of social service provision amongst older people with heart failure. Five hundred and forty-two people aged over 60 years with heart failure were recruited from UK general practices in four areas of the UK, and these subjects completed quality-of-life and service-use questionnaires every 3 months for 24…
Disability and identity
Through examining the case of people with epilepsy (which, as we demonstrate, has an ambiguous status in relation to both popular and academic conceptions of disability) we explore the fluid, negotiable and contingent nature of identity and, in particular, the identification as ‘disabled’. Disability, we argue, cannot be reduced to either biology or social oppression, or even primarily to biological or social factors: it is the outcome of a compl…
Electronic Medical Records in Diabetes Consultations
Two routine consultations in primary care diabetes clinics are compared using extracts from video recordings of interactions between nurses and patients. The consultations were chosen to present different styles of interaction, in which the nurse's gaze was either primarily toward the computer screen or directed more toward the patient. Using conversation analysis, the ways in which nurses shift both gaze and body orientation between the computer…
Older people's views of a good death in heart failure
Comparison of distributions of common indicators of socio-economic position by ethnicity and migration
Objective To describe and compare the distributions, including extent of missing data, in measures of socio-economic position (SEP) between women of white British and Pakistani ethnicity. We also compare distributions of measures of SEP between Pakistani women born in UK and those born in Pakistan and also compare distributions by the woman's age at migration to the UK. Design The Born in Bradford birth cohort study recruits pregnant women at 26–…
Examining the family-centred approach to genetic testing and counselling among UK Pakistanis
The contemporary relevance of Glaser and Strauss
The Hospital Personnel, Nursing Care and Dying Patients study, undertaken in California in the mid 1960s, generated a body of work that continues to be influential in end of life care research. Key points from the study are summarised, as are contributions from researchers who have responded to Glaser and Strauss invitation to examine further settings and, in so doing, provide data that helps refine their theory. The example of people with heart …
Infant Mortality and Migrant Health in Babies of Pakistani Origin Born in Bradford, UK
Bradford, in northern England, has attracted migrants since the nineteenth century. The most recent group, from Pakistan, began to arrive in the 1950s. There is now a three-generational Muslim community of Pakistani origin. The interaction of migration, ethnicity and deprivation in Bradford is considered by focusing on infant mortality. This is higher in Bradford than overall UK averages. The highest rates are in babies of first-generation migran…
A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health
Using latent class analysis to develop a model of the relationship between socioeconomic position and ethnicity
LCA allows different aspects of an individual's SEP to be considered in one multidimensional indicator, which can then be integrated in epidemiological analyses. Ethnicity is strongly associated with these identified subgroups. Findings from this study suggest a careful use of SEP measures in health research, especially when looking at different ethnic groups. Further replication of these findings is needed in other populations
Addressing key issues in the consanguinity-related risk of autosomal recessive disorders in consanguineous communities
Is ethnic density associated with health in a context of social disadvantage? Findings from the Born in Bradford cohort
In this sample, ethnic density was associated with lower odds of smoking during pregnancy but not with higher birth weight or lower odds of preterm birth. Possibly, high levels of social disadvantage inhibit positive effects of ethnic density on health
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