Ferhana Hashem
Biographic Data
| ID | 4083853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ferhana Hashem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ferhana |
| FAMILY NAME | Hashem |
| SIGNATURE | HASHEM F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2544-1350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Research and training fellowships as a mechanism for building research capacity in social care
Research capacity building in social care has received increased attention and dedicated funding in recent years, yet opportunities for practitioners to engage with research or apply evidence-based practice remain limited. This article evaluates one mechanism for developing capacity through a research-practice partnership: funding and supporting social care staff to undertake practitioner-research fellowships. This qualitative study incorporated …
Muscle strengthening intervention for boys with haemophilia
BACKGROUND: Muscle strengthening exercises have the potential to improve outcomes for boys with haemophilia, but it is unclear what types of exercise might be of benefit. We elicited the views of health-care professionals, boys and their families to create and assess a home-based muscle strengthening programme. OBJECTIVE: To design and develop a muscle strengthening programme with health-care professionals aimed at improving musculoskeletal healt…
Decision making in Nice single technological appraisals
CONTEXT: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has an explicit mandate to include patient and public involvement in the appraisal of medicines to be available for funding on the NHS. NICE involves an appraisal committee who are required to take on board experiential evidence from patient experts alongside population-based evidence on clinical and cost-effectiveness when making a decision whether to fund a drug. OBJECTIVE: T…
Trust, regulatory processes and Nice decision-making
This article presents an ethnographic study of regulatory decision-making regarding the cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England. We explored trust as one important mechanism by which problems of complexity and uncertainty were resolved. Existing studies note the salience of trust for regulatory decisions, by which the appraisal of people becomes a proxy for appraising te…
Responding to minority ethnic groups' language support needs in Britain
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: in the British state's relationship with its diverse minority ethnic communities, how have politics framed administrative allocation of language support services? The dynamics of policy development are investigated, a tangible effect of the shift from unofficial pragmatic multiculturalism towards community cohesion/“Britishness” having been a government focus on English for speakers of …
Are our data on teenage pregnancy across ethnic groups in England fit for the purpose of policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring
The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy for England has a Public Service Agreement target to substantially reduce the level of teenage pregnancies by 2010. It argues that all the main risk factors need to be incorporated into risk assessments undertaken by agencies and professionals. These include deprivation, poor educational attainment and disengagement from school, and ethnicity, the last's association with high teenage pregnancy rates being independen…
Elite conceptions of Muslim identity from the partition of Bengal to the creation of Bangladesh, 1947–1971
The historic partition of Bengal in 1947 caused a shift in the composition of the Muslim and Hindu political elite who were now geographically bounded into two separate newly formed provincial states of East Pakistan and West Bengal. The aim of this article is to explore the transformation in elite conceptions of identity in East Pakistan from the post-1947 era until the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. The prevalence of two new competing elites c…
What Does 'White' Mean? Interpreting the Choice of 'Race' by Mixed Race Young People in Britain
Despite the often cited idea that racial identities are socially constructed, and potentially fluid, much public policy is still based on surveys that elicit only one measure of racial identity. A number of U.S. studies have employed 'best single race' questions on racial identification, in which multiracial respondents are asked to choose only one race to describe themselves. We extend some American studies by examining responses to a 'best sing…
What Does 'White' Mean? Interpreting the Choice of 'Race' by Mixed Race Young People in Britain
Despite the often cited idea that racial identities are socially constructed, and potentially fluid, much public policy is still based on surveys that elicit only one measure of racial identity. A number of U.S. studies have employed 'best single race' questions on racial identification, in which multiracial respondents are asked to choose only one race to describe themselves. We extend some American studies by examining responses to a 'best sing…
Trust, regulatory processes and Nice decision-making
This article presents an ethnographic study of regulatory decision-making regarding the cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England. We explored trust as one important mechanism by which problems of complexity and uncertainty were resolved. Existing studies note the salience of trust for regulatory decisions, by which the appraisal of people becomes a proxy for appraising te…
Responding to minority ethnic groups' language support needs in Britain
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: in the British state's relationship with its diverse minority ethnic communities, how have politics framed administrative allocation of language support services? The dynamics of policy development are investigated, a tangible effect of the shift from unofficial pragmatic multiculturalism towards community cohesion/“Britishness” having been a government focus on English for speakers of …
Elite conceptions of Muslim identity from the partition of Bengal to the creation of Bangladesh, 1947–1971
The historic partition of Bengal in 1947 caused a shift in the composition of the Muslim and Hindu political elite who were now geographically bounded into two separate newly formed provincial states of East Pakistan and West Bengal. The aim of this article is to explore the transformation in elite conceptions of identity in East Pakistan from the post-1947 era until the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. The prevalence of two new competing elites c…
Are our data on teenage pregnancy across ethnic groups in England fit for the purpose of policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring
The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy for England has a Public Service Agreement target to substantially reduce the level of teenage pregnancies by 2010. It argues that all the main risk factors need to be incorporated into risk assessments undertaken by agencies and professionals. These include deprivation, poor educational attainment and disengagement from school, and ethnicity, the last's association with high teenage pregnancy rates being independen…
Elite conceptions of Muslim identity from the partition of Bengal to the creation of Bangladesh, 1947–1971
The historic partition of Bengal in 1947 caused a shift in the composition of the Muslim and Hindu political elite who were now geographically bounded into two separate newly formed provincial states of East Pakistan and West Bengal. The aim of this article is to explore the transformation in elite conceptions of identity in East Pakistan from the post-1947 era until the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. The prevalence of two new competing elites c…
What Does 'White' Mean? Interpreting the Choice of 'Race' by Mixed Race Young People in Britain
Despite the often cited idea that racial identities are socially constructed, and potentially fluid, much public policy is still based on surveys that elicit only one measure of racial identity. A number of U.S. studies have employed 'best single race' questions on racial identification, in which multiracial respondents are asked to choose only one race to describe themselves. We extend some American studies by examining responses to a 'best sing…
Responding to minority ethnic groups' language support needs in Britain
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: in the British state's relationship with its diverse minority ethnic communities, how have politics framed administrative allocation of language support services? The dynamics of policy development are investigated, a tangible effect of the shift from unofficial pragmatic multiculturalism towards community cohesion/“Britishness” having been a government focus on English for speakers of …
Trust, regulatory processes and Nice decision-making
This article presents an ethnographic study of regulatory decision-making regarding the cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England. We explored trust as one important mechanism by which problems of complexity and uncertainty were resolved. Existing studies note the salience of trust for regulatory decisions, by which the appraisal of people becomes a proxy for appraising te…
Decision making in Nice single technological appraisals
CONTEXT: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has an explicit mandate to include patient and public involvement in the appraisal of medicines to be available for funding on the NHS. NICE involves an appraisal committee who are required to take on board experiential evidence from patient experts alongside population-based evidence on clinical and cost-effectiveness when making a decision whether to fund a drug. OBJECTIVE: T…
Muscle strengthening intervention for boys with haemophilia
BACKGROUND: Muscle strengthening exercises have the potential to improve outcomes for boys with haemophilia, but it is unclear what types of exercise might be of benefit. We elicited the views of health-care professionals, boys and their families to create and assess a home-based muscle strengthening programme. OBJECTIVE: To design and develop a muscle strengthening programme with health-care professionals aimed at improving musculoskeletal healt…
Research and training fellowships as a mechanism for building research capacity in social care
Research capacity building in social care has received increased attention and dedicated funding in recent years, yet opportunities for practitioners to engage with research or apply evidence-based practice remain limited. This article evaluates one mechanism for developing capacity through a research-practice partnership: funding and supporting social care staff to undertake practitioner-research fellowships. This qualitative study incorporated …
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Excellence (2 works)