Diversity Monitoring in the Library

The collection of data about the identity characteristics of library users is the latest development in a long history of contested categorisation practices. In this article, I highlight how the collection of data about lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people has implications for the undertaking of diversity monitoring exercises in academic and public libraries. Based on experiences in the United Kingdom, I argue that recuperative efforts to ‘fix’ categorisation practices are not enough and overlook how categories of gender, sex and sexuality are constructed through the practice of diversity monitoring, how categories are positioned in time and space, and who is involved in decision-making about who to include and exclude from the category of ‘LGBTQ’.

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History of political and civil rights of women in the United Kingdom

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii201911statyi16 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 (11) ◽

pp. 135-139

Author(s):

Maria Zhukova ◽

Elena Maystrovich ◽

Elena Muratova ◽

Aleksey Fedyakin

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Civil Rights ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

History Of

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The Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom, by Frank WelshThe Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom, by Frank Welsh. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002. xxviii, 478 pp. $35.00 US (cloth).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.39.3.650 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 650-652

Author(s):

Paul Ward

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

New Haven ◽

Yale University ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

History Of

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Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in the United Kingdom

10.1093/oso/9780198788270.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ros Scott

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Care Services ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Strategic Direction ◽

Palliative Care Services ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk ◽

Hospice And Palliative Care ◽

Changing Role

This chapter explores the history of volunteers in the founding and development of United Kingdom (UK) hospice services. It considers the changing role and influences of volunteering on services at different stages of development. Evidence suggests that voluntary sector hospice and palliative care services are dependent on volunteers for the range and quality of services delivered. Within such services, volunteer trustees carry significant responsibility for the strategic direction of the organiszation. Others are engaged in diverse roles ranging from the direct support of patient and families to public education and fundraising. The scope of these different roles is explored before considering the range of management models and approaches to training. This chapter also considers the direct and indirect impact on volunteering of changing palliative care, societal, political, and legislative contexts. It concludes by exploring how and why the sector is changing in the UK and considering the growing autonomy of volunteers within the sector.

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G477 The history of adoption in the United Kingdom

10.1136/archdischild-2020-rcpch.409 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

C Donovan ◽

A Mandal ◽

F Finlay

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

History Of

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Dying to Go Green: The Introduction of Resomation in the United Kingdom

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel12020097 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 97

Author(s):

Georgina M. Robinson

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Environmental Impact ◽

Carbon Footprint ◽

Human Body ◽

Alkaline Hydrolysis ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Religious Perspectives ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk ◽

Hydrolysis Of

In an age where concern for the environment is paramount, individuals are continuously looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint—does this now extend to in one’s own death? How can one reduce the environmental impact of their own death? This paper considers various methods of disposing the human body after death, with a particular focus on the environmental impact that the different disposal techniques have. The practices of ‘traditional’ burial, cremation, ‘natural’ burial, and ‘resomation’ will be discussed, with focus on the prospective introduction of the funerary innovation of the alkaline hydrolysis of human corpses, trademarked as ‘Resomation’, in the United Kingdom. The paper situates this process within the history of innovative corpse disposal in the UK in order to consider how this innovation may function within the UK funeral industry in the future, with reference made to possible religious perspectives on the process.

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Incidence of factor VIII inhibitors throughout life in severe hemophilia A in the United Kingdom

Blood ◽

10.1182/blood-2010-09-308668 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 117 (23) ◽

pp. 6367-6370 ◽

Cited By ~ 112

Author(s):

Charles R.M. Hay ◽

Ben Palmer ◽

Elizabeth Chalmers ◽

Ri Liesner ◽

Rhona Maclean ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Factor Viii ◽

Hemophilia A ◽

Interquartile Range ◽

Severe Hemophilia ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Potential Risk Factors ◽

History Of ◽

Previously Treated Patients ◽

Adjusted Incidence

Abstract The age-adjusted incidence of new factor VIII inhibitors was analyzed in all United Kingdom patients with severe hemophilia A between 1990 and 2009. Three hundred fifteen new inhibitors were reported to the National Hemophilia Database in 2528 patients with severe hemophilia who were followed up for a median (interquartile range) of 12 (4-19) years. One hundred sixty (51%) of these arose in patients ≥ 5 years of age after a median (interquartile range) of 6 (4-11) years' follow-up. The incidence of new inhibitors was 64.29 per 1000 treatment-years in patients < 5 years of age and 5.31 per 1000 treatment-years at age 10-49 years, rising significantly (P = .01) to 10.49 per 1000 treatment-years in patients more than 60 years of age. Factor VIII inhibitors arise in patients with hemophilia A throughout life with a bimodal risk, being greatest in early childhood and in old age. HIV was associated with significantly fewer new inhibitors. The inhibitor incidence rate ratio in HIV-seropositive patients was 0.32 times that observed in HIV-seronegative patients (P < .001). Further study is required to explore the natural history of later-onset factor VIII inhibitors and to investigate other potential risk factors for inhibitor development in previously treated patients.

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