Hairdressing, image and body work in care services to older people

Ward, Richard (2017). Hairdressing, image and body work in care services to older people. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-851506

This research will explore the role that hairdressing plays in the lives of older people who are high-level users of health and social care. This will include investigating the formal/paid services provided by hairdressers, and the styling and management of hair undertaken by care workers. There are four main aims to this research: to describe the experience of hairdressing and explore the significance it holds for older service users to describe the workplace experience of care-based hairdressers and care workers to scrutinise and document the constituent elements of hairdressing encounters to consider patterns of provision, access and affordability of hairdressing services to older service users. This ethnographic study will be conducted over three types of setting: care received at home, long-stay hospital care settings and care homes. It will include observations and filming in care-based salons as well as interviews with care workers, hairdressers and older service users. The findings will inform policy and practices in care and raise the profile of body-work that is fundamental to well-being and the avoidance of decline, depression and neglect. The study addresses an aspect of care settings that is little understood and for which no evidence-base currently exists

Data description (abstract)

Data set comprising interviews with a range of stakeholders including: care-based hairdressers, people with dementia, informal carers, care workers and other practitioners and key informants.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Ward Richard	University of Stirling

Sponsors:

Economic and Social Research Council

Grant reference:

RES-061-25-0484

Topic classification:

Health
Labour and employment
Society and culture

Keywords:

care, dementia, hairdressing

Project title:

Hairdressing, image and body work in care services to older people

Alternative title:

hairdressing, image and body work in care services to older people

Grant holders:

Richard Ward

Project dates:

From	To
1 November 2010	1 November 2013

Date published:

21 Nov 2014 13:27

Last modified:

13 Jul 2017 15:45

Coverage and Methodology

Access and Administration

Data sourcing, processing and preparation:

All data was gathered from empirical research no existing data sets were used. All transcripts were anonymised ahead of archiving. The filmed data that we excluded from archiving is of people with a diagnosis of dementia. Consent to film for the study was granted on the basis that only the named research team would have access to the video data. We lodged a request to be able to use specific excerpts from the filmed footage on the grounds that we would return to the individuals concerned, show them the excerpt and explain how we intended to use it. This request was declined outright for all NHS participants by the host NHS Foundation Trust. For other participants short the use of short excerpts was agreed on the basis we would only use it for the stated purposes. This did not cover granting access to researchers outside the team. We have excluded the video data from archiving because allowing access to it by unknown future researchers would contravene the conditions on which consent was given and the basis for ethical approval for the study from a NHS research Ethics Committee.

Rights owners:

Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Ward Richard	University of Stirling

Contact:

Name	Email	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Ward, Richard	richard.ward1@stir.ac.uk	University of Stirling	Unspecified

Notes on access:

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Publisher:

UK Data Archive

Last modified:

13 Jul 2017 15:45