ImaYDiT - Imagining young disabled people's transitions in a time of major societal change: Research project report

ImaYDiT was funded by DRILL – Disability Research for Independent Living and Learning. This is supported by the Big Lottery Fund. WiltsCIL staff, members of WiltsCIL CoproductionGroup and researchers at UWE came up with the original idea for this project. We wanted to support young disabled people to explore and re-imagine their adult lives and have the best future. This involved taking an ‘assets-based’ approach. This is where we focus on what people can do- rather than what they can’t do – which is a ‘deficit approach’. We also thought that there is not enough research about the whole of young disabled people’s lives. Instead a lot of research only concentrates on transitions through the benefits and service system.Wiltshire Social Services and the Wiltshire Parent Council helped steer the project because, where we could, we also wanted to put young disabled people’s hopes and dreams into action.We want to understand how this group of young disabled people can be supported to become the next generation who are aware of their rights, with ambitions for their futures and able to establish meaningful and independent adult lives

An Intersectionality based framework for tobacco control

While Pederson, Greaves and Poole (2014) propose a framework for gender-transformative health promotion to address tobacco control, this chapter proposes an intersectionality based framework for health promotion and tobacco control. This approach offers a more nuanced understanding of health promotion and tobacco control precisely because it does not consider gender as an independent category. Gender cannot exist as an independent category and always intersects with ‘race’, ethnicity, culture, sexuality and class (Phoenix and Pattynama, 2006). This chapter argues that public health research and policy on cigarette smoking and tobacco control must acknowledge the social and cultural context of cigarette smoking in order to develop relevant and appropriate public health programmes and policies. First, I review the literature on young people and cigarette smoking, focusing specifically on the gaps in the literature and the absence of research studies on African-Caribbean young women and cigarette smoking in the UK. Following this, I present a summary of my research study which uses Cole’s (2009) questions in developing an intersectional research methodology. Finally, I argue that an intersectionality-informed research evidence base is necessary to develop an intersectionality based framework for tobacco control policies that are relevant to global tobacco use in the 21st century

Public

The introduction states that the theme for this issue of Public, "experimentalism," was intended to generate debate about the relationship between contemporary art and politics. The contents, 17 essays and four artists projects, are based on the proceedings from a conference and screening at Queen’s University: “Blowing the Trumpets to the Tulips.” Kibbins wishes to reinvest experimentalism with new meaning, since it lost its direction with the end of progressive Modernism. Includes conference program. Biographical notes. 227 bibl. ref