Staff profiles
Professor Sarah Salway
BA (Hons) Human Sciences, MSc Medical Demography, Postgraduate Diploma Epidemiology and Population Sciences, PhD Public Health Medicine
Phone 0114 225 5496
E-mail s.salway@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Sarah has over 20 years research, consultancy and teaching experience in the field of public health. Sarah's programme of work focused on understanding the social determinants of health with three broad themes of interest: gender, ethnicity and poverty. Her work in all three areas has included an emphasis on understanding the perspectives of service users and improving the fit between services and client needs.
Following 10 years work focused on South Asia, a prestigious Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship (2000-2004) allowed a shift towards UK issues. Since 2000, Sarah has developed a strong portfolio of work around UK ethnic diversity, health and welfare. A parallel body of work explores the ethics and science of researching race/ethnicity. With a background in sociology and demography, Sarah has both qualitative and quantitative research skills and a particular interest in combining methodological approaches.
Sarah is currently leading an NIHR-SDO funded project that is exploring the use of evidence by healthcare commissioners in commissioning services for multiethnic populations: Evidence & Ethnicity in Commissioning (EEiC). Sarah is also a team member of the Inequalities Implementation Theme of the CLAHRC (SY). Recently completed work includes two projects funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: 'Ethnic diversity and inequality: ethical and scientific rigour in social research' (with Dr Gina Higginbottom of the University of Alberta and Professor George Ellison of London Metropolitan University) and Parenting in modern Britain: understanding the experiences of Asian fathers (with Punita Chowbey at Sheffield Hallam University and Lynda Clarke at LSHTM).
Sarah provides varied consultancy and training support to the NHS, charities and community-based organisations. Sarah recently led a six-month research capacity development programme for members of the Public Health Directorate of NHS Sheffield focused on 'Researching ethnicity and health' and funded by Trent Research Design and Support Unit. She is also mentor, together with Mike Grimsley, to Joanne Coy of NHS Sheffield who is currently working on secondment to the Centre for Health and Social Care Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's UPTAP programme.
Sarah has published extensively in major journals in her areas of research, both alone and in collaboration with her former master's and PhD students and overseas colleagues.
Research collaborations
Sarah's research has involved extensive collaborations with academics, practitioners and community-based organisations in the UK and abroad.
Sarah recently collaborated with academics from the University of Manchester and the University of London to deliver an ESRC Research Methods Innovation Network on Researching Ethnicity
Another recent project funded by VolkswagenStiftung, exploring the maternity experiences and needs of migrant and minority women involved researchers from Germany and Canada.
Ongoing work funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research focused on maternity care in Pakistan is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Zubia Mumtaz of the University of Alberta and Dr S Zaman of the Health Services Academy, Pakistan.
Doctoral students
Sarah welcomes students interested in investigating the broad linkages between race/ethnicity and health and the gendered influences on health. She would particularly encourage individuals with interests in British Asian populations, poverty, long-term/chronic health conditions and maternal/reproductive health. She can support a range of methodological approaches.
Sarah's recently successfully completed PhD students include
- Zubia Mumtaz (2002)- Gender and reproductive health: a need for reconceptualisation
- Juan-Manuel Contreras (2005) - Conflict within intimacy: a socio-demographic analysis of male involvement in intimate partner violence in Mexico
- Kaveri Harriss (2008) - Long-term ill health and livelihoods among Pakistanis in the UK: Class, gender and household economies
Sarah is currently a member of the supervisory team for
- Neelamani Hewageegana - Adolescent pregnancy in Sri Lanka
- Yvonne Channer - Exploring the small group experiences of minority and 'minoritised' social work students
- Ruth Barley - Social Interaction and Effective Communication: Young new language learners in the Early Years
- Jenny Ceolta-Smith - Pathways to employment for those with long-term health conditions
Research outputs: key publications since 2001
Rapid response published in BMJ online: Fair Society, Healthy Lives: a missed opportunity to address ethnic inequalities in health
Books
Salway, S., Barley, R. Allmark, P. et al. (2011) Ethnic Diversity and inequality – ethical and scientific rigour in social research. Joseph Rowntree Foundation: York. ISBN: 978 1 85935 808 5.
Salway, S. Chowbey, P. and Clarke, L. (2009) Parenting in modern Britain: understanding the experiences of Asians fathers. Joseph Rowntree Foundation & York Publishing: York. ISBN: 978-1-85935-699-9.
Salway S., L. Platt, P. Chowbey, K. Harriss and E. Bayliss (2007) Long-term ill-health, poverty and ethnicity. The Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN 978 1 86134 993 4.
Book chapters
Salway S and Ellison G (2010) 'Nursing research for a multiethnic society' Chapter in Gerrish K. and Lacey, A. (eds) Nursing Research. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford.
Salway, S, Chowbey, P and Harriss, K (2010) ' Researching locality with Community Researchers: putting long-term illness in context' Chapter in Mason, J and Dale, A (eds.) Social Researching. Sage Publications.
Mumtaz Z., E. Slaymaker and S. Salway (2005) 'Condom use in Uganda and Zimbabwe: exploring the influence of gendered access to resources and couple-level dynamics' in A focus on gender; collected papers using DHS data ORC Macro: Calverton, Maryland, USA.
Peer reviewed original journal papers
Chowbey, P, Salway S and Ismail, M (2012) 'Influences on diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders among minority ethnic people in the UK' Journal of Public Mental Health, in press
Mumtaz, Z, Salway, S, Shanner, L, Bhatti, A and Laing, L (2011) Maternal deaths in Pakistan: Intersection of gender, class and social exclusion. BMCInternational Health and Human Rights. 11 (Suppl 2):S4.
Salway, S, Higginbottom, G, Reime, B. 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
Salway, S, Barley, R, Allmark, P et al. (2011) Can the quality of social research on ethnicity be improved through the introduction of guidance? Findings from a research commissioning pilot exercise. International Journal of Social research Methodology 7: 201–218.
Salway, S, Barley, R, Allmark, P et al. (2011) Enhancing the quality of published research on ethnicity and health: is journal guidance feasible and useful? Diversity in Health & Care 8(3):155-165.
Salway S, Allmark, P et al. (2009) 'Researching ethnic inequalities' Social Research Update, 58.
Mumtaz, M. and Salway, S. (2009) 'Understanding gendered influences on women's reproductive health in Pakistan: moving beyond the 'autonomy paradigm' Social Science and Medicine, 68(7): 1349-56..
Salway, S. et al. (2009) 'Social research for a multiethnic society: an exploration of current guidance and future possible directions' 21st Century Society 4(1):53-81.
Harriss, K, and Salway, S, (2009) "Long-term ill-health, poverty and ethnicity", Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 2(3): 39 - 48.
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 16(1):33-45.
Salway S. (2008) 'Young Bangladeshi men in the UK labour market: inclusion, exclusion and identity' Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(6):1126-1152.
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. (2007) 'Patterns of labour market participation among Bangladeshi and Pakistani women in the UK: evidence from the Family Resources Survey' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 33(5):825-847.
Mumtaz Z. and S. Salway (2006) 'Gender, pregnancy and the uptake of antenatal care services in Pakistan,' Sociology of Health and Illness 29(1):1-26.
Furuta M. and S. Salway (2006) 'Women's position within the household as a determinant of maternal healthcare use in Nepal 'International Family Planning Perspectives32(1):17-27.
Mumtaz Z. and S. Salway (2005) 'I never go anywhere': Extricating the links between women's mobility and uptake of reproductive health services in Pakistan,' Social Science and Medicine 60(8): 1751-1765.
Salway S., S. Rahman and S. Jesmin (2005) 'Women's employment and gender identity in urban Bangladesh' Development and Change 36(2):317-349.
Salway S., S. Rahman and S. Jesmin (2003) 'A profile of women's work participation among the urban poor of Dhaka' World Development 31(5): 881-901.
Mumtaz Z., S. Salway, M. Waseem and N. Umer (2003) 'Gender-based barriers to primary health care provision in Pakistan: understanding the experience of female providers' Health Policy and Planning 18(3): 261-269.
Hakim A., S. Salway and Z. Mumtaz (2003) 'Women's autonomy and uptake of contraception in Pakistan' Asia-Pacific Population Journal 18(1): 64-82.
Salway S. (2001) 'Why is contraceptive use inversely associated with lactational amenorrhoea? Qualitative and quantitative insights from Bangladesh' Journal of Population Research 18(2):155-176.
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