Carol Rivas
Biographic Data
| ID | 352069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Rivas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivas |
| SIGNATURE | RIVAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0316-8090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 294 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stakeholder perspectives on Relationships and Sex Education outcomes for students with intellectual disability to inform the development of a Core Outcome Set
Little is known about how to deliver Relationships and Sex Education to students with intellectual disability and what outcomes to measure. UNESCO defines Relationships and Sex Education as a part of the curriculum that aims to provide students with comprehensive knowledge, skills and attitudes about their sexuality. Evaluations of Relationships and Sex Education for people with intellectual disability indicate inconsistent outcome measurement an…
Ethics of not knowing who we are talking to in qualitative research
The increasing use of online methods in qualitative research, alongside the growing availability of artificial intelligence tools, has raised concerns about whether researchers can be certain who they are speaking to. These concerns are often framed in terms of ‘imposter’ or ‘fraudulent’ participants, with proposed responses focusing on detection and verification. This paper argues that such framing mischaracterises the ethical landscape. It pres…
Control or Care? The Mobile Media Panopticon in Chinese Trans-Local Families
This study discusses the ways in which power is negotiated, and dynamics are shaped through mobile media in Chinese families living in trans-local contexts. While traditional Chinese family values emphasize parental responsibility and moral guidance, the heavy reliance on connections made through digital media because of trans-locality introduces new tensions between involvement and the pursuit of independence by children. Drawing on panopticism …
Participatory research
Thematic analysis
Writing a research report
A qualitative evaluation of the effectiveness of behaviour change techniques used in the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (Heal-D) intervention
number: NCT03531177, May 18th 2018
Just Like Normal People’. Social Representations and the Ideology of Ability in Everyday Discourse
This research critically examined whether ideological ableism influences understandings of disability among non‐disabled individuals, employing synthesised theories of Social Representations and Ideology of Ability. A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, further informed by Social Representations Theory, was conducted on episodic interview data from nine participants in the UK. Findings consistently indicated that ideological ableism underpinned parti…
The model isn’t made for us
The study highlights the need for a shift from cultural competence to cultural humility in mental healthcare. Addressing systemic barriers requires integrating cultural humility in practitioner training, adapting care models to accommodate diverse experiences, and fostering inclusive mental health policies. These findings advocate for rethinking mental health service delivery to ensure equitable and effective care for Ghanaian, Nigerian and diver…
Researching Society and Culture
Introduction - Clive Seale PART ONE: RESEARCH CONTEXTS Selected Issues in the Philosophy of Social Science - David Lazar Politics, Identities and Research - Suki Ali et al Developments in Social Theory - Paul Filmer et al Research and Social Theory - David Silverman Research and Social Policy - David Silverman Validity, Reliability and the Quality of Research - Clive Seale History of Social Statistics and the Social Survey - Fran Tonkiss History …
Beneath skin-deep? Why colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification for justice-involved women
Training Informal Supporters to Improve Responses to Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Informal supporters (friends, family, colleagues, and community members) play a crucial role in societal-wide responses to victim-survivors of domestic violence and abuse. Familial and social networks, however, report a sense of helplessness and difficulties in knowing how to respond. This mixed method systematic review examines the effectiveness, and perceived effectiveness, of training informal supporters to improve their responses to victim-su…
Social support and mental well-being among people with and without chronic illness during the Covid-19 pandemic
The large mental well-being gap between people with and without chronic illness persisted during the pandemic. However, social support and provision can partially narrow this gap, hence should be employed in future pandemic management
Enabling Workplace and Community Responses to Domestic Abuse
Alongside formal agencies and specialist services, informal and social networks play a pivotal role in responding to domestic abuse in the community. Friends, relatives, and neighbours are uniquely placed to recognise domestic abuse, respond to victim‐survivors, and refer to wider services. Yet, informal networks may not know how to respond and feel overwhelmed or ill‐equipped to offer support. This mixed method systematic review examined the rol…
Ethically Driven and Methodologically Tailored
Additional research is required to comprehensively examine the ethics of each stage of the review process. In the meantime, attention should be given to the underpinning ethical framework for our systematic review practices and the wider research infrastructure that governs reviews
Misalignment
Objectives: The incidence of type 2 diabetes in UK Black African and Caribbean communities is up to three times higher than in the general population, and engagement with self-management advice is poorer. This study explores the perspective of those living with diabetes to understand how the cultural salience of advice could be improved. Design: Participants were recruited via community venues, faith institutions and primary care. Eight focus gro…
Culturally tailored lifestyle interventions for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in adults of Black African ancestry
Objective: To evaluate the cultural tailoring methods used in type 2 diabetes (T2D), prevention and management interventions for populations of Black African ancestry and to examine their effectiveness on measures of glycaemia. Design: Three databases were searched in October 2020; eligible studies used a randomised controlled trial (RCT) design to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally tailored lifestyle interventions compared with usual care …
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Background: This special issue examines the relationship between disability, evidence, and policy. Key points: Several themes cut across the included papers. Despite the development of models of disability that recognise its socially constructed nature, dis/ableism impedes the involvement of people with disability in evidence production and use. The resultant incomplete representations of disability are biased towards its deproblematisation. Exis…
Designing the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (Heal-D) self-management and support programme for UK African and Caribbean communities
Use of COM-B and the BCW highlighted the need for an intervention to address motivational and social opportunity barriers to engaging in healthful behaviours, as well as addressing key gaps in knowledge. This framework facilitated the linkage of theoretical behaviour constructs with evidence-based behaviour change techniques, which will enable us to evaluate operationalisation of our chosen BCTs and their impact on behaviour change in a future fe…
Drawing the Line
This study explores how African, Caribbean and White British women worked to hide psychological partner abuse as they experienced it, "do gender," and appear competent in social roles. They prioritized negotiated competencies as "good partners," actively setting socially and culturally embedded boundaries to their abuser's behaviors: an inner boundary encompassing normal behaviors and an outer one of "acceptable" behaviors projected as normal thr…
Moral mediation in interpreted health care consultations
Sources of weaning advice, comparisons between formal and informal advice, and associations with weaning timing in a survey of UK first-time mothers
Objective The aim of the present study was to explore knowledge of the UK weaning guidelines and the sources of weaning advice used by UK first-time mothers. Design An online survey of UK parents; analysed using mixed methods. Setting Participants were recruited from a selection of parenting websites that hosted a link to the survey. Subjects In total, 1348 UK first-time mothers were included in the analysis. Results Knowledge of the guidelines w…
Collaborative working within UK NHS secondary care and across sectors for COPD and the impact of peer review
The data come from the first randomised controlled trial of organisational peer review, adding to research into UK health service collaborative work, which has had a more restricted focus on inter-professional relations. NCROP peer review may only modestly improve collaboration but these data suggest it might be more effective than top-down exhortations to change when collaboration both across and within organisations is required
Researching Society and Culture
Introduction - Clive Seale PART ONE: RESEARCH CONTEXTS Selected Issues in the Philosophy of Social Science - David Lazar Politics, Identities and Research - Suki Ali et al Developments in Social Theory - Paul Filmer et al Research and Social Theory - David Silverman Research and Social Policy - David Silverman Validity, Reliability and the Quality of Research - Clive Seale History of Social Statistics and the Social Survey - Fran Tonkiss History …
Drawing the Line
This study explores how African, Caribbean and White British women worked to hide psychological partner abuse as they experienced it, "do gender," and appear competent in social roles. They prioritized negotiated competencies as "good partners," actively setting socially and culturally embedded boundaries to their abuser's behaviors: an inner boundary encompassing normal behaviors and an outer one of "acceptable" behaviors projected as normal thr…
Moral mediation in interpreted health care consultations
Beneath skin-deep? Why colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification for justice-involved women
Ethically Driven and Methodologically Tailored
Additional research is required to comprehensively examine the ethics of each stage of the review process. In the meantime, attention should be given to the underpinning ethical framework for our systematic review practices and the wider research infrastructure that governs reviews
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Background: This special issue examines the relationship between disability, evidence, and policy. Key points: Several themes cut across the included papers. Despite the development of models of disability that recognise its socially constructed nature, dis/ableism impedes the involvement of people with disability in evidence production and use. The resultant incomplete representations of disability are biased towards its deproblematisation. Exis…
Collaborative working within UK NHS secondary care and across sectors for COPD and the impact of peer review
The data come from the first randomised controlled trial of organisational peer review, adding to research into UK health service collaborative work, which has had a more restricted focus on inter-professional relations. NCROP peer review may only modestly improve collaboration but these data suggest it might be more effective than top-down exhortations to change when collaboration both across and within organisations is required
Sources of weaning advice, comparisons between formal and informal advice, and associations with weaning timing in a survey of UK first-time mothers
Objective The aim of the present study was to explore knowledge of the UK weaning guidelines and the sources of weaning advice used by UK first-time mothers. Design An online survey of UK parents; analysed using mixed methods. Setting Participants were recruited from a selection of parenting websites that hosted a link to the survey. Subjects In total, 1348 UK first-time mothers were included in the analysis. Results Knowledge of the guidelines w…
Drawing the Line
This study explores how African, Caribbean and White British women worked to hide psychological partner abuse as they experienced it, "do gender," and appear competent in social roles. They prioritized negotiated competencies as "good partners," actively setting socially and culturally embedded boundaries to their abuser's behaviors: an inner boundary encompassing normal behaviors and an outer one of "acceptable" behaviors projected as normal thr…
Moral mediation in interpreted health care consultations
Designing the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (Heal-D) self-management and support programme for UK African and Caribbean communities
Use of COM-B and the BCW highlighted the need for an intervention to address motivational and social opportunity barriers to engaging in healthful behaviours, as well as addressing key gaps in knowledge. This framework facilitated the linkage of theoretical behaviour constructs with evidence-based behaviour change techniques, which will enable us to evaluate operationalisation of our chosen BCTs and their impact on behaviour change in a future fe…
Culturally tailored lifestyle interventions for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in adults of Black African ancestry
Objective: To evaluate the cultural tailoring methods used in type 2 diabetes (T2D), prevention and management interventions for populations of Black African ancestry and to examine their effectiveness on measures of glycaemia. Design: Three databases were searched in October 2020; eligible studies used a randomised controlled trial (RCT) design to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally tailored lifestyle interventions compared with usual care …
The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Background: This special issue examines the relationship between disability, evidence, and policy. Key points: Several themes cut across the included papers. Despite the development of models of disability that recognise its socially constructed nature, dis/ableism impedes the involvement of people with disability in evidence production and use. The resultant incomplete representations of disability are biased towards its deproblematisation. Exis…
Misalignment
Objectives: The incidence of type 2 diabetes in UK Black African and Caribbean communities is up to three times higher than in the general population, and engagement with self-management advice is poorer. This study explores the perspective of those living with diabetes to understand how the cultural salience of advice could be improved. Design: Participants were recruited via community venues, faith institutions and primary care. Eight focus gro…
Ethically Driven and Methodologically Tailored
Additional research is required to comprehensively examine the ethics of each stage of the review process. In the meantime, attention should be given to the underpinning ethical framework for our systematic review practices and the wider research infrastructure that governs reviews
Training Informal Supporters to Improve Responses to Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Informal supporters (friends, family, colleagues, and community members) play a crucial role in societal-wide responses to victim-survivors of domestic violence and abuse. Familial and social networks, however, report a sense of helplessness and difficulties in knowing how to respond. This mixed method systematic review examines the effectiveness, and perceived effectiveness, of training informal supporters to improve their responses to victim-su…
Social support and mental well-being among people with and without chronic illness during the Covid-19 pandemic
The large mental well-being gap between people with and without chronic illness persisted during the pandemic. However, social support and provision can partially narrow this gap, hence should be employed in future pandemic management
Enabling Workplace and Community Responses to Domestic Abuse
Alongside formal agencies and specialist services, informal and social networks play a pivotal role in responding to domestic abuse in the community. Friends, relatives, and neighbours are uniquely placed to recognise domestic abuse, respond to victim‐survivors, and refer to wider services. Yet, informal networks may not know how to respond and feel overwhelmed or ill‐equipped to offer support. This mixed method systematic review examined the rol…
Participatory research
Thematic analysis
Writing a research report
A qualitative evaluation of the effectiveness of behaviour change techniques used in the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes (Heal-D) intervention
number: NCT03531177, May 18th 2018
Just Like Normal People’. Social Representations and the Ideology of Ability in Everyday Discourse
This research critically examined whether ideological ableism influences understandings of disability among non‐disabled individuals, employing synthesised theories of Social Representations and Ideology of Ability. A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, further informed by Social Representations Theory, was conducted on episodic interview data from nine participants in the UK. Findings consistently indicated that ideological ableism underpinned parti…
The model isn’t made for us
The study highlights the need for a shift from cultural competence to cultural humility in mental healthcare. Addressing systemic barriers requires integrating cultural humility in practitioner training, adapting care models to accommodate diverse experiences, and fostering inclusive mental health policies. These findings advocate for rethinking mental health service delivery to ensure equitable and effective care for Ghanaian, Nigerian and diver…
Researching Society and Culture
Introduction - Clive Seale PART ONE: RESEARCH CONTEXTS Selected Issues in the Philosophy of Social Science - David Lazar Politics, Identities and Research - Suki Ali et al Developments in Social Theory - Paul Filmer et al Research and Social Theory - David Silverman Research and Social Policy - David Silverman Validity, Reliability and the Quality of Research - Clive Seale History of Social Statistics and the Social Survey - Fran Tonkiss History …
Beneath skin-deep? Why colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification for justice-involved women
Stakeholder perspectives on Relationships and Sex Education outcomes for students with intellectual disability to inform the development of a Core Outcome Set
Little is known about how to deliver Relationships and Sex Education to students with intellectual disability and what outcomes to measure. UNESCO defines Relationships and Sex Education as a part of the curriculum that aims to provide students with comprehensive knowledge, skills and attitudes about their sexuality. Evaluations of Relationships and Sex Education for people with intellectual disability indicate inconsistent outcome measurement an…
Ethics of not knowing who we are talking to in qualitative research
The increasing use of online methods in qualitative research, alongside the growing availability of artificial intelligence tools, has raised concerns about whether researchers can be certain who they are speaking to. These concerns are often framed in terms of ‘imposter’ or ‘fraudulent’ participants, with proposed responses focusing on detection and verification. This paper argues that such framing mischaracterises the ethical landscape. It pres…
Control or Care? The Mobile Media Panopticon in Chinese Trans-Local Families
This study discusses the ways in which power is negotiated, and dynamics are shaped through mobile media in Chinese families living in trans-local contexts. While traditional Chinese family values emphasize parental responsibility and moral guidance, the heavy reliance on connections made through digital media because of trans-locality introduces new tensions between involvement and the pursuit of independence by children. Drawing on panopticism …
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Diabetes Management and Education (4 works) · Public health (4 works)