Martina Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2499-4241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Well, I Am Now Looking after This Bloody Rabbit!”
This paper seeks to explore how care has been theorised in ways that have served to exclude people with learning disabilities from being recognised as care-givers, and positioned them, instead, almost exclusively, as passive recipients of care. Working with people with learning disabilities, our aim is to explore, recognise and record caring relationships in their lives, paying attention to the care given as well as the care received by people so…
Moving off Script
The article is about digital storytelling in the context of health and social care research with people with learning disabilities and family carers in the United Kingdom. It explains being drawn to decolonial thinking in the formulation of metodologia otra to think again about the processes and practices of (digital) storytelling in health and social care research. The article concludes by reflecting on what we learned about digital storytelling…
Tired of Spinning Plates
Family carers of adults with learning disabilities provide support that is not only valuable to the person they love and care for but is critical care labour for society in the UK. This care fills gaps in health and social care provision, is lifelong, and often entails longer hours of caring in comparison to other groups of carers. Despite this phenomenal and often invisible care work, how this group of carers experience their roles in relation t…
Kindness and curious kinships in the lives of family carers of adults with learning disabilities
This article engages with transcripts from 12 family carers to explore kindness in the lives of family carers and adults with learning disabilities. Knowing that kindness matters and understanding it to be linked to an expansive notion of kinship that transcends familial ties, we examine its presence and absence in interactions between family carers and health and social care professionals, services and systems. Our findings show how a lack of cu…
Should we even have questions?’ From survey to exhibition – co-producing research about ‘mental health’ with carers and adults with learning disabilities
Carers’ mental health is often the focus of policy and research in Global North contexts. Research exploring carers’ views often uses survey methods to collect information about their experiences and views of services and support. However, the experiences of adult carers of adults with learning disabilities have often been marginalised within these domains. Here, we report on how, working together with family carers, we disrupted survey methods a…
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Should we even have questions?’ From survey to exhibition – co-producing research about ‘mental health’ with carers and adults with learning disabilities
Carers’ mental health is often the focus of policy and research in Global North contexts. Research exploring carers’ views often uses survey methods to collect information about their experiences and views of services and support. However, the experiences of adult carers of adults with learning disabilities have often been marginalised within these domains. Here, we report on how, working together with family carers, we disrupted survey methods a…
Moving off Script
The article is about digital storytelling in the context of health and social care research with people with learning disabilities and family carers in the United Kingdom. It explains being drawn to decolonial thinking in the formulation of metodologia otra to think again about the processes and practices of (digital) storytelling in health and social care research. The article concludes by reflecting on what we learned about digital storytelling…
Tired of Spinning Plates
Family carers of adults with learning disabilities provide support that is not only valuable to the person they love and care for but is critical care labour for society in the UK. This care fills gaps in health and social care provision, is lifelong, and often entails longer hours of caring in comparison to other groups of carers. Despite this phenomenal and often invisible care work, how this group of carers experience their roles in relation t…
Kindness and curious kinships in the lives of family carers of adults with learning disabilities
This article engages with transcripts from 12 family carers to explore kindness in the lives of family carers and adults with learning disabilities. Knowing that kindness matters and understanding it to be linked to an expansive notion of kinship that transcends familial ties, we examine its presence and absence in interactions between family carers and health and social care professionals, services and systems. Our findings show how a lack of cu…
“Well, I Am Now Looking after This Bloody Rabbit!”
This paper seeks to explore how care has been theorised in ways that have served to exclude people with learning disabilities from being recognised as care-givers, and positioned them, instead, almost exclusively, as passive recipients of care. Working with people with learning disabilities, our aim is to explore, recognise and record caring relationships in their lives, paying attention to the care given as well as the care received by people so…
Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Learning disability (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Austerity (1 work) · Care (1 work) · care relationships (1 work)