Department

Public Health and Policy Studies

Biography

Gillian has a particular research interest in the sociology of race and mixed race and in the involvement of children in their health affairs. She has published in these areas and has an interest in promoting the perspectives of mixed race people and families within public policy. She has worked on Department of Health funded research project to investigate patient partnership in a paediatric clinic within a London teaching hospital.

As a founder member of WEDHS she has an interest in the particular experiences of minority groups in Wales and is currently engaged in research to investigate the extent and nature of teaching about diversity within the Welsh nursing curriculum. A further aspect to the WEDHS work is the taking forward of research to involve users in an investigation of public beliefs about organ donation and transplantation.

External activity

• Outside the University Gillian is chairperson of the charity People in Harmony which supports the mixed race community

Publications

Olumide,G. 2007 ‘Sleepwalking to Diversity?’ Chapter in Hann, A.ed. Health Policy and Politics. Ashgate (December 2007).

Olumide, G. 2007 People in Harmony in Sims,ed.  Mixed Heritage-Identity, Policy and Practice. Runnymede Trust Perspectives Series. (also published on Runnymede/CRE e-conference site)

Williams, Merrell, Rance, Olumide. 2007. ‘A critical reflection on the research priorities for improving the health and social care offered to black and minority ethnic groups in Wales’. Diversity in Health and Social Care 4.3.pp193-9.

Olumide,G. 2005 ‘Mixed Race and Public Policy’. Chapter in Okitikpi ed Working With Children of Mixed Parentage.  Dorset. Russell House Publishing.

Lewis,S. and Olumide,G . 2005 ‘Not Black and White: Mixed Heritage Experiences of Criminal Justice’ in Lewis, Raynor, Smith and Wardak (eds) Race and Probation. Cullompton. Willan.

Gabe, Olumide, Bury. 2004 ‘It Takes 3 to Tango: A Framework for Understanding Patient Partnership in Paediatric Clinics’. Soc Sci Med. 59.5. pp 1071-1079.

Bury, Gabe, Olumide. 2003 Report of the Department of Health Research Project Participating in Care: Children and the NHS.

Olumide. Jill. 2002  Raiding the Gene Pool: the Social Construction of Mixed Race. Pluto Press.