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Simon Dyson

Researcher at De Montfort University

Publications -  80
Citations -  881

Simon Dyson is an academic researcher from De Montfort University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnic group & Racism. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 79 publications receiving 796 citations.

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‘I can die today, I can die tomorrow’: lay perceptions of sickle cell disease in Kumasi, Ghana at a point of transition

TL;DR: Praxis of successfully caring for a child with SCD, and the political experience of sharing that praxis, stands in opposition to discourses of death and helps parents resist stigma and despair.
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Disclosure and sickle cell disorder: a mixed methods study of the young person with sickle cell at school.

TL;DR: It is found that teacher or pupil knowledge that a young person has sickle cell is not statistically associated with reported better treatment of young people with SCD at school, and a change in wider school environments is required such that young peoplewith SCD are supported irrespective of whether they themselves foreground or play down their disabled identity.
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“Race”, ethnicity and haemoglobin disorders

TL;DR: The paper concludes that any group of people associated with the haemoglobin disorders are subject both to constraints upon their actions and opportunities for re-interpreting their social world, and proposes that no nomenclature classifies the phenomenon unproblematically.
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Beyond normalization and impairment: theorizing subjectivity in learning difficulties – theory and practice

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the work of Foucault to deconstruct normalization and social role valorization, arguing that they reproduce a common but problematic individual-society dualism.