A book of condolence in memory of the late educationalist, social advocate and former City Councillor, Don O'Leary, has opened at Cork City Hall.

Written by Tracy Morison. Let’s be honest: reflexivity is one of the most overused and under-explained terms in qualitative research. We all say we’re being reflexive—often in a neat little paragra…

It is 10 years since I won a landmark gender discrimination case. Was it all worth it?

There is an ongoing debate around how to design online synchronous qualitative research studies, and respond in the moment, when researchers suspect that they a...

Objectives Investigate the work–life balance of doctors in training in the UK from the perspectives of trainers and trainees. Design Qualitative semistructured focus groups and interviews with traine...

Mr O'Leary, who was a former member of Cork City Council, had been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021.

Housing is a fundamental human right. Yet, UN Habitat estimates that 2·8 billion people around the world face some form of housing inadequacy, 1 billion people live in informal settlements and slums, ...

Weight stigma negatively impacts people with higher weights across the lifespan as well as social contexts and can lead to weight discrimination. As weight is not a protected identity in Canadian human rights legislation, it is important to better understand how weight discrimination is being argued in Canada’s legal system. The purpose of this environmental scan was to examine and describe Canadian case law and scholarly articles pertaining to the argumentation of weight discrimination in Canada. A three-step search process was taken to identify relevant cases and articles that included; (1) Boolean keyword searches in HeinOnline, WestLaw, and LexisPlus; (2) citation searching within all results that met inclusion criteria; and (3) a keyword search in CanLII. These searches yielded a total of 33 documents that were included for analysis, including 8 scholarly articles and 25 cases. Scholarly articles highlighted consistent criticisms of existing human rights protections for higher-weight people in Canada, mostly pertaining to Limitations of disability protections. Of the 25 cases included, 16 were unsuccessful and 9 were successful, with most cases related to employment (n = 19). Our findings point to significant gaps in Canada’s legal system for identifying and correcting instances of weight discrimination. Current Canadian disability protections are inadequate for those who experience weight discrimination, especially those who do not experience disability due to their weight. Our results highlight that weight ought to be a bona fide human rights issue, independent from disability protections.

Abstract. The active mobility experiences of adolescents intersect with those of younger children and older youth in many ways. However, existing research

How should qualitative social scientists understand and engage with the concept of vulnerability in their research? Scholars have largely approached this questi...

What are the views and experiences of patient and expert stakeholders on the positive and negative impacts of commercial influences on the provision of assisted reproductive technology (ART) services,...

With this commentary I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I sugge....

Since 2016, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been aiming to implement midwifery continuity of carer (MCoC), a model of maternity care in which the same midwife or small group of midwi...

What do we learn when we invite others to make and create? How can drawing, cutting and pasting, repurposing objects, and photography enable us to explore compl...

Mapping how responsibility for poor diets is framed in the United Kingdom: a scoping review

Emerging as a commercial category in 2016, ‘femtech’ has been publicly celebrated as a category of consumer-based digital health technologies designed to suppor...

Public narratives about menopause are framed by a range of stakeholders, who contribute to shaping women's experiences of and attitudes towards menopa…

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Jerry Greenfield says he cannot ‘in good conscience’ continue and says company has lost its independence