Apurv Chauhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Apurv Chauhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Apurv |
| FAMILY NAME | Chauhan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAUHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0270-2263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seasonality and regional disparity in attention to homelessness in UK newspapers between 2001 and 2020
This research examined the amount of media attention to homelessness in 11 UK newspapers with two main research questions: (1) Does the media coverage exhibit seasonal cyclical patterns in their attention to homelessness?(2) Do England's nine regions differ in the attention they receive after adjusting for their relative homelessness levels?Time series of all 4105 news reports with the keyword "homeless*" in their headline between 2001 and 2020 w…
The Communicative Architecture of Stigma: Examining the Everyday Language on Homelessness
Stigma is a powerful force of social exclusion, yet the everyday communicative practices through which it is reproduced remain underexamined. This study investigates how stigma against people experiencing homelessness is embedded in ordinary discourse. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of UK Twitter posts (2019–2021) identified as stigmatising by individuals with lived experience of homelessness. Analysis revealed seven key bases of per…
Interrogating paradigmatic commitments of focus group methodology: An invitation to context-sensitive qualitative research methods
Paradigmatic methodological guidelines predominantly reflect communicative norms of societies where the methods were developed and formalized. Using the example of Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), we highlight the dangers of indiscriminately following paradigmatic guidelines when using qualitative methods in varied sociocultural settings. We argue that their universal implementation can lead to ethnocentric biases in qualitative research practices…
Risk, trust and patients' strategic choices of healthcare practitioners
Research on patients' choice of healthcare practitioners has focussed on countries with regulated and controlled healthcare markets. In contrast, low- and middle-income countries have a pluralistic landscape where untrained, unqualified and unlicensed informal healthcare providers (IHPs) provide significant share of services. Using qualitative data from 58 interviews in an Indian village, this paper explores how patients choose between IHPs and q…
The ethical commitment in dialogical epistemologies
Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men
Little is understood by the ideas that urban Chinese population holds about mental health. Insufficient research and recognition of mental illnesses, and a dearth of social resources for mental health support and promotion limit understandings of how daily life stresses restrict the quality of life of China's urban population. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 15 middle‐age urban men, we map out men's accounts of how they battle to cope with th…
Plates for slates: The impact of a school feeding programme on community representations of schools
Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers: A Case of ‘Othering’ the Threat
The meanings of social problems like poverty develop within the public sphere. This paper uses the theory of social representations to examine how poverty is represented in British newspapers. Poverty has been discussed and interpreted in numerous ways, and newspapers not only provide a platform for these elaborations but also contribute to shaping public understanding on the issue. The study sampled news coverage on poverty in four British newsp…
Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers: A Case of ‘Othering’ the Threat
The meanings of social problems like poverty develop within the public sphere. This paper uses the theory of social representations to examine how poverty is represented in British newspapers. Poverty has been discussed and interpreted in numerous ways, and newspapers not only provide a platform for these elaborations but also contribute to shaping public understanding on the issue. The study sampled news coverage on poverty in four British newsp…
Risk, trust and patients' strategic choices of healthcare practitioners
Research on patients' choice of healthcare practitioners has focussed on countries with regulated and controlled healthcare markets. In contrast, low- and middle-income countries have a pluralistic landscape where untrained, unqualified and unlicensed informal healthcare providers (IHPs) provide significant share of services. Using qualitative data from 58 interviews in an Indian village, this paper explores how patients choose between IHPs and q…
Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men
Little is understood by the ideas that urban Chinese population holds about mental health. Insufficient research and recognition of mental illnesses, and a dearth of social resources for mental health support and promotion limit understandings of how daily life stresses restrict the quality of life of China's urban population. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 15 middle‐age urban men, we map out men's accounts of how they battle to cope with th…
Plates for slates: The impact of a school feeding programme on community representations of schools
Representations of Poverty in British Newspapers: A Case of ‘Othering’ the Threat
The meanings of social problems like poverty develop within the public sphere. This paper uses the theory of social representations to examine how poverty is represented in British newspapers. Poverty has been discussed and interpreted in numerous ways, and newspapers not only provide a platform for these elaborations but also contribute to shaping public understanding on the issue. The study sampled news coverage on poverty in four British newsp…
Plates for slates: The impact of a school feeding programme on community representations of schools
Representations of Mental Health Among Middle‐Aged Urban Chinese Men
Little is understood by the ideas that urban Chinese population holds about mental health. Insufficient research and recognition of mental illnesses, and a dearth of social resources for mental health support and promotion limit understandings of how daily life stresses restrict the quality of life of China's urban population. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 15 middle‐age urban men, we map out men's accounts of how they battle to cope with th…
The ethical commitment in dialogical epistemologies
Risk, trust and patients' strategic choices of healthcare practitioners
Research on patients' choice of healthcare practitioners has focussed on countries with regulated and controlled healthcare markets. In contrast, low- and middle-income countries have a pluralistic landscape where untrained, unqualified and unlicensed informal healthcare providers (IHPs) provide significant share of services. Using qualitative data from 58 interviews in an Indian village, this paper explores how patients choose between IHPs and q…
Interrogating paradigmatic commitments of focus group methodology: An invitation to context-sensitive qualitative research methods
Paradigmatic methodological guidelines predominantly reflect communicative norms of societies where the methods were developed and formalized. Using the example of Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), we highlight the dangers of indiscriminately following paradigmatic guidelines when using qualitative methods in varied sociocultural settings. We argue that their universal implementation can lead to ethnocentric biases in qualitative research practices…
Seasonality and regional disparity in attention to homelessness in UK newspapers between 2001 and 2020
This research examined the amount of media attention to homelessness in 11 UK newspapers with two main research questions: (1) Does the media coverage exhibit seasonal cyclical patterns in their attention to homelessness?(2) Do England's nine regions differ in the attention they receive after adjusting for their relative homelessness levels?Time series of all 4105 news reports with the keyword "homeless*" in their headline between 2001 and 2020 w…
The Communicative Architecture of Stigma: Examining the Everyday Language on Homelessness
Stigma is a powerful force of social exclusion, yet the everyday communicative practices through which it is reproduced remain underexamined. This study investigates how stigma against people experiencing homelessness is embedded in ordinary discourse. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of UK Twitter posts (2019–2021) identified as stigmatising by individuals with lived experience of homelessness. Analysis revealed seven key bases of per…
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Development economics (2 works)