Professor Simon M Dyson

Current affiliation: De Montfort University
Subject: Sociology
Primary location: United Kingdom

  • Fathers and Sickle Cell Screening

    Published in:Sociology
    Publication date:2015-02-03

    What's it about?

    In the UK, fathers from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds have multiple pressures to do with resisting racism, countering gender stereotypes of...

Read more »
  • Sickle Cell Trait is About More Than Reproductive Choice

    Published in:Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine
    Publication date:2016-08-03

    What's it about?

    Previous research has looked at how people create narratives (tell stories) to help them come to terms with chronic illness. Based on in-depth inte...

Read more »
  • Why a School Policy for Sickle Cell is Needed

    Published in:Social Science & Medicine
    Publication date:2010-06-01

    What's it about?

    The research based on questionnaires with 569 young people with sickle cell disease and 40 in-depth interviews found young people reporitng they we...

Read more »
Read more »
  • Young People with Sickle Cell Made Ill at School

    Published in:British Educational Research Journal
    Publication date:2010-02-01

    What's it about?

    Young people with SCD miss considerable time from school, on average 16 days a year, a level that exceeds the 15 days beyond which schools and loca...

Read more »
  • Sickle Cell in School: Understanding Conflicting Demands

    Published in:Sociology of Health & Illness
    Publication date:2011-03-01

    Sickle cell, habitual dys-positions and fragile dispositions

    What's it about?

    Young people with SCD are found to be habitually dys-positioned between the demands of the clinic for health maintenance through self-care, and the...

Read more »
Read more »
Read more »