Grant Holders
Find out about the team awarded funding to carry out research into sickle cell and the issues faced by young people at school who live with the disorder.
The team awarded the ESRC Grant:
- Professor Simon M Dyson, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, Leicester
- Professor Lorraine Culley, School of Applied Social Sciences, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, Leicester
- Dr Sue Dyson, School of Nursing and Midwifery, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, Leicester
- Professor Karl Atkin, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
- Dr Jack Demaine, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
In addition to the grant-holders, the research team included:
- Dr Hala Evans (née Abuateya) Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, Leicester
- Dave Rowley, School of Allied Health Sciences, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, Leicester
- Eileen Buchanan, Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, Leicester
The advisory group who helped guide the research were:
- Anthony Mason, Sickle Cell Society
- Marie-Claire Monkam Ngeumshe, Sickle Cell Society
- Cecilia Shoetan, Barking, Dagenham and Redbridge Sickle Cell Group
- the late Sonia Lindsay, OSCAR Birmingham
- Ventreasa McQuinn, OSCAR Sandwell
- Carol King, OSCAR Leicester
- Angela Dias, OSCAR Nottingham
- Susan Crawford, Sickle Cell Nurse Counsellor, Heart of Birmingham PCT
- Professor Martyn Denscombe, ̨ÍåÂãÁÄÖ±²¥
- Professor David Gillborn, Institute of Education, London
The Sickle Cell and Education (SECD) group:
The SECD group helpedto find the respondents for the surveyand comprised:
Moira Dick, Susan Height, Sandra O'Driscoll, Shirley Samuel, Baba Inusa, Jo Howard, Helen Appleby, Neil Westerdale, Lola Oni, Elizabeth Okuyiga, Vesna Graham, Beatrice Barbola, Gavin Cho, Michele Afif, Lurieteen Miller, Susan Crawford, Maureen Williams, Janet Lawrence, Paulette Gaskin, Wendy Mills, Sekayi Tangayi, Bernice Burton, Comfort Okolo, Evelyn Chibambo, Beverley Smalling, Anthony Akhidenor, Mary Opare-Ababio, Joanne McLoughlin, Iyamide Thomas, Comfort Ndive, Blanche McCalla, Anthony Mason, Carol Nwosu, Cecilia Shoetan, Tito Idowu, Eileen Bowen, Susan Mew, Beverley Bell-Jessop, Maureen Scarlet, Monica Noel, Carol King, Winston Nurse, Melita Dixon, Angela Dias, Sonia Lindsay, Sharon Wilson, Anndeloris Chacon, and Marjorie Ritchie.