Financial abuse refers to men’s control over money, assets, and women’s education or paid work. As a corrective to existing undertheorization of men’s (and their family’s) abuse of and control over women’s unpaid (domestic) labor, this article proposes a new conceptualization of economic abuse. Drawing upon life-history interviews with 41 South Asian women from the…Continue Reading Understanding Economic Abuse Through an Intersectional Lens: Financial Abuse, Control, and Exploitation of Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labor
Category: Children, Families and Community
British Academy ‘Representing Homelessness’ Conference
Location: University of Lincoln Date: Thu 18th Jul 2019, 09:00 to Fri 19th Jul 2019, 17:00 Book here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/representing-homelessness Homelessness is a lived experience for many thousands of people every day. This experience is routinely captured in different kinds of texts: newspapers, TV scripts, novels, expert research, government policy documents, and the law. Broadly-defined, texts have an enormous…Continue Reading British Academy ‘Representing Homelessness’ Conference
Suboptimal Nocturnal Glucose Control Is Associated With Large for Gestational Age in Treated Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
We performed a prospective observational study of 162 pregnant women with GDM in specialist multidisciplinary antenatal diabetes clinics. Participants undertook 7-day masked CGM at 30–32 weeks’ gestation. Standard summary indices and glycemic variability measures of CGM were calculated. Functional data analysis was applied to determine differences in temporal glucose profiles. LGA was defined as birth…Continue Reading Suboptimal Nocturnal Glucose Control Is Associated With Large for Gestational Age in Treated Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Professor Steve McKay’s Research Featured in New Report Published by the Nuffield Foundation
Professor Steve McKay from the School of Social and Political Sciences has had research featured in a new report by the Nuffield Foundation, which examines ways to improve how data on family separation is collected and analysed. University of Lincoln, College of Social Science Research Prof Steve McKay, University of Lincoln, School of Social and Political Science…Continue Reading Professor Steve McKay’s Research Featured in New Report Published by the Nuffield Foundation
Independent Health Needs Assessment for People Living with Neurological Conditions
HARG were asked by Lincolnshire County Council to undertake an independent health needs assessment for people living with neurological conditions in the county. A health needs assessment is a way in reviewing the current resources available to meeting the needs of a specific population. The review looked at adults over the age of 18, and…Continue Reading Independent Health Needs Assessment for People Living with Neurological Conditions
Research by Professor Steve McKay Featured in Article About Mental Health in Children
Boys who have a close relationship with their mothers at 14 are 41 per cent less likely to have mental health problems and girls who are close to their fathers are 44 per cent less likely to suffer emotional problems or have trouble with their peers, the research found. Professor Steve McKay from Lincoln School of Social and Political…Continue Reading Research by Professor Steve McKay Featured in Article About Mental Health in Children
Autism Research and Innovation Centre (A.R.I.C)
The ARIC is a multi-disciplinary research centre that delivers real world research grounded in the needs of people on the autism spectrum, their families and the professionals that support them. The Mission The mission of the ARIC is to create a diverse and inclusive environment where community knowledge and academic expertise merge and complement each…Continue Reading Autism Research and Innovation Centre (A.R.I.C)
Men, Poverty and Lifetimes of Care
Anxieties about father absence and the so-called ‘crisis of fatherlessness’ appear to have taken on a renewed significance and sway in the post-2008 recession and austerity contexts. Such anxieties typically implicate working-class men, perpetuating stereotypes that they are most likely to be uncaring, feckless and indifferent to family life. As with other accounts of low-income…Continue Reading Men, Poverty and Lifetimes of Care