All Outputs (4)

Healthcare IT project failure: A systems perspective (2007)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, R., Butler, R. E., & Clarke, S. (2007). Healthcare IT project failure: A systems perspective. Journal of cases on information technology, 9(4), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2007100101

This case describes the experiences of a healthcare organization in the North of England that introduced a multi-lingual electronic patient information system, the first of its kind in this part of the country. This information technology (IT) based... Read More about Healthcare IT project failure: A systems perspective.

Disability and development: different models, different places (2007)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Butler, R. (2007). Disability and development: different models, different places. Geography compass, 1(3), 448-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00023.x

Debates about disability within geography, as well as in disability studies more generally, have been largely urban, Anglophone and Western-centric. Not only have industrialised societies remained the predominant focus of attention, but the debates t... Read More about Disability and development: different models, different places.

Coming out and outcomes: negotiating lesbian and gay identities with, and in, the family (2003)
Journal Article
Valentine, G., Skelton, T., & Butler, R. (2003). Coming out and outcomes: negotiating lesbian and gay identities with, and in, the family. Environment and planning. D, Society & space, 21(4), 479-499. https://doi.org/10.1068/d277t

In late modernity there has been a shift in the ways that individuals relate to society, in which traditional ideas, expectations, and hierarchies are being reworked. Released from the constraints and social norms of tradition, individuals, it is arg... Read More about Coming out and outcomes: negotiating lesbian and gay identities with, and in, the family.

The alternative fairy story: Diana and the sexual dissidents (1999)
Journal Article
Valentine, G., & Butler, R. (1999). The alternative fairy story: Diana and the sexual dissidents. Journal of gender studies, 8(3), 295-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/095892399102553

By drawing on feminist and queer theory this paper explores the nature of Diana, Princess of Wales' changing relationship with the gay comnunity, and gay politics. We argue that from her wedding to her funeral, Diana's life and death epitomised a ser... Read More about The alternative fairy story: Diana and the sexual dissidents.