Hi
Some may be interested in the following project. Please reply to the
original sender.
Mark.
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Date sent: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:34:14 +0100
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From: Sarah Lock <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Work after stroke
Please post this on the on-line discussion network, thanks:
We are a team from UCL who, in collaboration with Different Strokes (a
charity set up by and for younger stroke survivors), are undertaking a
three-year research project about return to work after stroke. The aim of
the project is to explore barriers to employment and factors facilitating
employment after stroke for people with and without communication
difficulties(aphasia).
The research objectives are:
1. to establish the range of issues associated with employment of people
who have had a stroke
2. to identify specific issues regarding employment for people with
communication difficulties after stroke
3. to investigate employer perspectives on recruiting/retaining people who
have had a stroke
4. to examine the above within the contexts of British social structure and
changing social policies
5. to develop theoretical insights on impairment and the relationship of
impairment to disability within a social model approach to disability.
In the first phase of the project we have facilitated discussions with five
focus groups of Different Strokes members about barriers and facilitators
to work after stroke, the findings from which are informing the development
of a questionniare which will be send to all Different Strokes members.
We will later be carrying out depth interviews with stroke survivors, their
significant others, employers and rehabilitation professionals about work
after stroke.
Does anybody know of any literature/previous studies/contacts which have
addressed barriers/enablers to employment for people who have had stroke
or other neurological event, and any participative research in this area.
Much of what we found to date is impairment-based.
The research team on this project is Karen Bryan and Jane Maxim (UCL),
Lesley Jordan (Middlesex University), Donal O'Kelly (Different Strokes). I
am the Research Fellow on the study: please reply to me at
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Looking forward to hearing from you. Sarah Lock
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Sarah Lock e-mail:
Research Fellow [log in to unmask]
Department of Human [log in to unmask]
Communication Science
University College London Chandler House
Tel: 0171 504 4214 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PG
Fax: 0171 713 0861 London WC1N 11PG
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Best Wishes
Mark Priestley
Disability Research Unit
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44 113 2334417/2334418
Fax: +44 113 2334415
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/dru/dru.htm
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