What do the manifestos say about disability? Chris Grover and Hannah Morgan There are 14 million disabled people in the UK (over a fifth of its population). They are more likely to be unemployed, in poverty and facing disadvantages in education, health and housing. As recent exposés demonstrate, too many people living with mental distress […]
By Rebecca Fish In 2005 I published some research with my colleague, Eloise Culshaw, about physical intervention (commonly referred to as restraint) on locked wards for people with learning disabilities, looking at experiences of staff and service users. We found that sometimes, restraint is not used as a last resort: Service-user: All I have to […]
Brown, M., James, E. and Hatton, C. (2019) Is Care Transformed? A Review of Transforming Care in England Lancaster: Centre for Disability Research. This report is available in pdf and word (docx) format. The UK government policy of Building the Right Support in England was launched in 2015 as part of Transforming Care. Transforming Care […]
Rebecca Fish and Hannah Morgan People with learning disabilities have to stay in secure units if they have broken the law or if they are a risk to themselves or other people. It is important that people can move on through these services, and then back out into the community. We asked 16 women and […]
We were delighted to host our Danish NNDR colleague Anthon Sand Jørgensen for a short visit this autumn. Anthon, who is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work Via University College and undertaking doctoral research at Aalborg University visited Lancaster in September and October 2018. A drive from campus into Lancaster reminded us […]
Dr Sue Cranmer (Lecturer, Department of Educational Research) Dr Sue Cranmer’s recent research explored how disabled children use technology such as computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets and the Internet. She spent time with teenagers between 13-17 years of age in the North West of England. They all had a visual impairment. She wanted to see […]
Rebecca Fish and Hannah Morgan Introduction Some research from Canada and the US says that more young men are self-harming. There is a small amount of research from the UK. This says that when men self-harm, their injuries are usually more violent and can be seen as accidental. Some of the research talks about UK […]
Evening routines in the community By Elaine James, Mark Harvey and Rob Mitchell Accessible summary by Rebecca Fish An NHS England report called Building the right support was published in 2015. The report set targets to cut down the amount of people in units by about half before 2019. The report asked for better services […]
Rebecca Fish In 2012, I spent time in three of women’s wards in an NHS learning disability secure unit. I wrote a book about it called ‘Locked Away’. I asked women what they liked about living here, and what they did not like. I also talked to staff. This is what I found out: Life […]
by Dr Rebecca Fish, Professor Chris Hatton (Lancaster University) and Professor Umesh Chauhan (UCLAN) Introduction We recently worked on a study that was commissioned by East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). We wanted to find out how health professionals in Lancashire work with people who have communication and accessibility needs. There are clear health disparities […]
