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Uptake of health services by people from the Dalit community (2018)
Journal Article
Thapa, R., van Teijlingen, E., Regmi, P., & Heaslip, V. (2018). Uptake of health services by people from the Dalit community. Journal of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, 1(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3126/jbpkihs.v1i2.22072

Studies and reports on uptake of health services in Nepal and other low-income countries often focus on limitations due to physical factors, such as travel distance to health facility, or lack of medical facilities or electricity at the health care c... Read More about Uptake of health services by people from the Dalit community.

Risk and stigma: students’ perceptions and disclosure of ‘disability’ in higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Eccles, S., Hutchings, M., Hunt, C., & Heaslip, V. (2018). Risk and stigma: students’ perceptions and disclosure of ‘disability’ in higher education. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 20(4), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.20.4.191

There is a focus on increasing the numbers of students with disabilities who apply to and study in Higher Education (HE). Despite sector-wide criteria regarding what comprises a disability, there are still students who do not disclose a disability at... Read More about Risk and stigma: students’ perceptions and disclosure of ‘disability’ in higher education.

Sex trafficking and sex tourism in a globalised world (2018)
Journal Article
Brooks, A., & Heaslip, V. (2018). Sex trafficking and sex tourism in a globalised world. Tourism Review, 74(5), 1104-1115. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-02-2017-0017

Purpose This paper aims to explore the dark side of the relationship between gender, mobility, migration and tourism. Specifically, the paper looks at one form of human trafficking, the global sex industry and the relationship between sex traffickin... Read More about Sex trafficking and sex tourism in a globalised world.

Improving equity and cultural responsiveness with marginalised communities: understanding competing worldviews (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, D., Heaslip, V., & Jackson, D. (2018). Improving equity and cultural responsiveness with marginalised communities: understanding competing worldviews. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(19-20), 3810-3819. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14546

Aim To explore the impact of culture on health, healthcare provision and its contribution towards health inequity experienced by some marginalised communities. Background Health inequity is a global issue, which occurs across and within countrie... Read More about Improving equity and cultural responsiveness with marginalised communities: understanding competing worldviews.

Asking the right questions: challenges of survey methods for widening participation research (2018)
Journal Article
Collins, B., Hunt, C., Wardrop, A., Gauntlett, E., Heaslip, V., Hutchings, M., & Pritchard, C. (2018). Asking the right questions: challenges of survey methods for widening participation research. International studies in widening participation (Online), 5(2), 55-69

The development of an institution-wide survey at one English university raised questions for the researchers in relation to how to ask students about their background. The survey was to focus future widening participation (WP) practice. A detailed it... Read More about Asking the right questions: challenges of survey methods for widening participation research.