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Neil Small

Emeritus Professor - EMPFOHS

Area
Faculty of Health Studies
E-mail
N.A.Small@bradford.ac.uk
Neil Small
194 publications

Biography

Neil Small BSc (Econ); MSW; PhD; FAcSS was made an Emeritus Professor in September 2021 having been a Professor at Bradford since 1999. He previously held posts in the University of Sheffield and the University of York and, preceding these posts, he was a Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at Bradford University, beginning in 1981. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Neil is a social scientist whose research interests have included health policy, chronic and life-threatening illnesses with a particular interest in end of life care, and health inequalities (reflected in his position as an academic lead for the birth cohort study Born in Bradford from its inception until his retirement). 

Research

The focus of ongoing work is on the Born in Bradford birth cohort study www.borninbradford.nhs.uk 


Professional activities

  • Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow

Publications

  • Health and Social Care in Neoliberal Times

    Neil Small (2023) Routledge.

  • Failures in Health and Social Care

    Neil Small (2023) Routledge.

  • A bit of heaven for the few

    David Clark, Neil Small, Michael Wright, Michelle Winslow, Nic Hughes (2005) Observatory Press.

  • AIDS: The Challenge

    Neil Small (1993) Avebury.

  • Politics and Planning in the National Health Service

    Neil Small (1989) Open University Press.

  • Crossing continents: Meanings and management of epilepsy among people of Pakistani origin living in the UK

    Rhodes P.;Small N. (2011) Society, Behaviour and Epilepsy. 163-174.

  • After the battle, journeys with cancer. Changing metaphors of illness

    N Small (2010) Living with Grief: Cancer and End-of-Life Care.. Hospice Foundation of America. .

  • Improving end-of-life care for people with dementia – the benefits of combining UK approaches to palliative care and dementia care.

    Neil Small, Murna Downs and Katherine Froggatt (2006) Care Giving in Dementia Research and applications Vol 4. Routledge.

  • User Involvement and End-of-Life Care. Questions raised by the UK experience

    N Small (2005) End of Life Care. (Am Ende des Lebens) . Verlag Hans Huber.

  • Critical Health Economics

    N Small, R Mannion (2004) Unmasking Health Management. Nova Science Publishers.

  • The changing NHS: user involvement and palliative care

    N Small (2003) Patient Participation in Palliative Care. Oxford University Press.

  • Discourse into practice: the production of bereavement care

    N Small, J Hockey (2001) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual. Open University Press.

  • Theories of grief: a critical review

    N Small (2001) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritua. Open University Press.

  • The modern hospice movement: "bright lights sparkling" or "a bit of heaven for a few"?

    N Small (1999) Oral History, Health and Welfare. Routledge.

  • The story as gift: researching AIDS in the welfare marketplace

    N Small (1998) Meddling with Mythology. Routledge.

  • Spirituality and Hospice Care

    N Small (1998) The Spiritual Challenge of Health Care. Chrurchill Livingston.

  • Suffering in Silence? Public Visibility, Private Secrets and the Social Construction of AIDS

    N Small (1997) AIDS: Activism and Alliances. Taylor and Francis.

  • Making sense of difference: Death, gender and ethnicity in modern Britain

    D. Field, N Small and J. Hockey (1997) Death, Gender and Ethnicity. Routledge.

  • Death and Difference

    N Small (1997) Death, Gender and Ethnicity. Routledge.

  • The public construction of AIDS deaths in the UK

    N Small (1997) The Unknown Country. Macmillan.

  • Palliative care in the community

    N Small, Ashworth, A., Coyle, D., Hennessy, S., Jenkins Clark, S., Rice, N., Ahmedzai, S.) (1997) Community Health Care Development. Macmillan.

  • Half full or half empty? The impact of health reform on palliative care services in the UK.

    D. Clark, N Small, H. Malson, K. Mallett, B. Neale, P. Heather (1997) New Themes in Palliative Care. Open University Press.

  • Living Together in Uncertain Times

    D Kennard, N Small (1996) Living Together. Quartet.

  • Intimacy, altruism and the loneliness of moral choice.

    N Small (1996) Sexual Cultures. Macmillan.

  • The Bradford Quality Initiative

    N Small, M. Corrigan, J. Crook, C. Picking (1996) Managing and Developing the Mixed Economy of Care.. Association of Directors of Social Services .

  • Critical social research

    N Small (1995) Welfare and Policy: Research Agendas and Issues. London. Taylor and Francis.

  • Living with HIV and AIDS

    N Small (1995) Health and Disease: A reader. Open University Press.

  • The changing context of health care in the UK: implications for HIV/AIDS

    N Small (1994) AIDS: Foundations for the Future. Taylor and Francis.

  • A Trust's first year Management views

    M.R. Baker, N Small (1994) Working for Patients": early research finding. Nuffield Institute for Health.

  • Dying in a public place

    N Small (1993) The Sociology of Death . Sociological Review .

  • HIV/AIDS: Lessons for policy and practice

    N Small (1993) The Future for Palliative Care: issues of policy and practice.. Open University Press.

  • Violence, social work and the emergence of dangerousness

    N Parton, N Small (1989) Radical Social Work Today . Unwin Hyman.

  • Planning and personal social services

    J Hearn, N Small (1984) The yearbook of social policy in Britain. Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  • Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual

    Jenny Hockey, Jeanne Katz, Neil Small (2001) Open University Press.

  • Living Together

    David Kennard, Neil Small (1997) Quartet Books.

  • Death, Gender and Ethnicity

    David Field, Jenny Hockey, Neil Small (1997) Routledge.

  • Hospices: HIV and AIDS: Dame Cicely Saunders: Empowerment and decision making - 4 entries

    N Small (2001) Routledge.