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Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives? (2007)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W. (2007). Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?. In J. S. Jones, & J. Raisborough (Eds.), Risks, Identities and the Everyday (83-98). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315606552

We know very little about how people define risk (Tulloch and Lupton 2003, 16). Yet, interest in risk factors contributing to violence continues to be high as professionals search for tools to identify those ‘at-risk’ and seek empirically based interv... Read More about Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?.

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.