Staff profiles
Punita Chowbey
Research fellow; BA (Hons), MSc, MA
Phone 0114 225 5733
Email p.chowbey@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Punita works as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health & Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University. For the three years previously, she worked as a Research Associate in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Sheffield, seconded to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. With a background in sociology, social policy and development studies, she has been working on applied and academic projects in health and social development in India and in the UK for the last ten years. Punita's Research interests and experience fall into the following themes
- Poverty and social exclusion, particularly gender and child poverty
- Gender and ethnic inequalities in health
- Families and children: fathering, mothering, children's rights
- International development particularly, monitoring and evaluation, participation theories and community engagement
- Qualitative, participatory and comparative research methods
Research collaborations
Punita has developed and maintained close contacts with professionals working on issues of common interest in the UK as well as abroad. Punita's current and recent collaborative projects involve researchers from University of Alberta, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Essex and University of Sheffield amongst others. Punita has also worked collaboratively on a number of projects with NHS Sheffield and Voluntary Sector organisations.
Research outputs: key publications
Books and book chapters
Salway, S., Harriss, K., and Chowbey, P. (2010) ' Researching locality with Community Researchers: putting long-term illness in context' in Mason, J. and Dale, A. (eds.) Social Researching. Sage Publications.
Salway S., L. Platt, P. Chowbey, K. Harriss and E. Bayliss (2007) Long-term ill-health, poverty and ethnicity. The Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN: 9781861349934.
Salway, S. Chowbey, P. and Clarke, L. (2009) 'Parenting in Modern Britain: Experiences of Asian Fathers in the UK'. York Publishing.
Peer reviewed journal papers
Chowbey, P., Salway, S. Ismail, M. (2012) Influences on diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders among minority ethnic people. Journal of Public Mental health, forthcoming
Salway, S.; Higginbottom. G; Reime, B; Bharj, K; Chowbey, P. et al. ( 2011): Contributions and challenges of cross-national comparative research in migration, ethnicity and health: insights from a preliminary study of maternal health in Germany, Canada and the UK, BMC Public Health, 11: 514
Platt, L., Salway,S., Chowbey,P. and Harriss, K. (2008) 'Ill-health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across households from four ethnic groups' Benefits:The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice,Vol 16 No 1 2008 33-45
Salway S., L. Platt, P. Chowbey and K. Harriss (2007) 'Long-term health conditions and Disability Living Allowance: exploring ethnic differences and similarities in access' Sociology of Health and Illness 29(6):907-930.
Salway S, L. Platt, P Chowbey and K. Harriss (2007) 'Long-term health conditions and Disability Living Allowance: exploring ethnic differences and similarities in access' in the 13th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph Ethnicity, health and healthcare: understanding diversity, tackling disadvantage
Other publications
Chowbey, P., Salway S. (2011) Maternity services for migrant and minority ethnic women: needs and action points, The Colour of Health
Chowbey, P., Piercy, H. Salway, S. (2010) Care pathway to revascularisation: experiences of Pakistani women and health care practitioners in Sheffield, a report for Sheffield PCT
Chowbey P., Salway S, Gerrish K, Ismail M, Moullin, M (2008) Responding to Diverse Needs: Eating Disorders in 'BME Communities' in Sheffield, Syeda and NHS Sheffield
Papers
Chowbey, P, Salway, S., & Clarke, L. (April 2012): Supporting fathers in multi-ethnic societies: Insights from British Asian fathers, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Leeds
Chowbey, P (April 2012) Keynote speaker: Parenting in Modern Britain: Understanding the Experiences of Asian Fathers, Educating the next generation, Sheffield Hallam University
Chowbey P (April, 2011) How to engage with minority ethnic fathers in the UK, Sheffield City Council Research seminar, Sheffield
Chowbey P, Salway, S. (Nov, 2010) Working with and against ethnic categories in a study of long-term ill health and poverty, Promoting Methodological Innovation and Capacity Building in Research on ethnicity, ESRC-funded NCRM Network for Methodological Innovation, Sheffield
Chowbey, P. and Salway, S. (2011) Engaging Ghanaian community in research, Researching ethnicity: what, why and how?, Poster presentation, Manchester
Chowbey, P., Salway, S. & Clarke, L. (2009) Understanding the experiences of Asian fathers in the UK, the Quadrant, Sheffield
Chowbey, P. & Salway, S., (2009) Conducting research in a multi-ethnic society, Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University
Chowbey, P., Salway, S. and Amponsah, S. (2006) Understanding the 'culture' of silence among UK Ghanaians with chronic illness, Migration, transnational links and life-course influences on health, ESRC Seminar, January 24, 2006, Leicester.
Chowbey, P. & Salway, S. (2005) Working with Community Researchers to explore the links between long-term illness and poverty, University of Sheffield
Current and most recent projects
2011/2012 Researcher - Producing a case book of knowledge translation examples, TK2A and Health Inequalities (CHLARCS) joint project
2010/2011 Co-applicant and project leader - Understanding revascularisation decision making in Asian women, NHS Sheffield
2011/2012 Co-applicant - Realist review, Cancer in BME communities, Sheffield, NHS Sheffield
2009 Co-applicant -Inputting into developing identity questions for Understanding Society, University of Essex
2009 Co-applicant - A formative evaluation of Enhanced Public Health Programmes,
NHS Sheffield.
2008 Co-applicant & Project leader - Responding to Diverse Needs: Eating Disorders in 'BME Communities' in Sheffield, SYEDA & NHS Sheffield
2009 Co-applicant - Research Capacity Development Award in Collaboration of NHS Sheffield, Trent RDSU
2009 Co-applicant - Supporting outdoor play in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods,
Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium
2008 Co-applicant - Migration, minorities and maternity services: an international collaboration, VolkswagenStiftung.
2006 Co-applicant- middle childhood among UK South Asians, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
2005 Research Fellow - Long-term ill-health, poverty and ethnicity, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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