Dr. Andrew Power

Research Interests

Andrew worked as a researcher at the Centre for Disability Law & Policy. He was involved on a project examining the Modernisation of Support Delivery for Persons with Disabilities using Comparative Perspectives. This is looking at Personalisation, Choice in Living Arrangements and Life in the Community.

He recently completed an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University where he carried out research on caregiving, disability and voluntarism. He worked closely with colleagues within the sub-division, the Centre for Disability Research and organised the international conference, ’Debates in Informal Care’.

He has a background as a human geographer with an ongoing interest in health and social geographies, particularly in disability and caregiving, as well as welfare and voluntarism. He carried out his PhD as a research fellow at NIRSA, the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, which was based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM). During his time there, he organised and hosted an international post-graduate conference, entitled 'Emerging and New Research in the Geographies of Health and Impairment' 2004 (ENRGHI).

His PhD, Landscapes of Care: A Geographical Study of Informal Care and Care Support, examined the geographies of family care in Ireland and how institutional structures at national, regional and local levels interlock to provide an effective system of care support for adults with learning disabilities and carers. At the local level, the research examined how family caregivers were affected by government policy. Particular attention was paid to looking at everyday geographies of care and experiences of support services.

International comparisons were made with England, the US and Canada by examining how the different models of welfare 'target' caregivers and people with disabilities. For the fieldwork, he worked at the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK (May - June 2003); the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Jersey (September - October 2003); and the Health Care, Technology & Place (HCTP) Institute, University of Toronto (July - August 2005).

Publications

Book

• Power, A. (2010) Landscapes of Care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving. Ashgate, Aldershot. http://ashgate.com/default.aspx?page="637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=416&title_id=9673&edition_id=12709

• Power, A. and Kenny, K. (in press) When Care is Left to Roam: Carers Experiences of grassroots nonprofit services in Ireland, Health & Place. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.03.001
• Power, A. (2009) 'It's the System working for the System': Carer Experiences of community care services in Ireland. Health and Social Care in the Community. Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 92-98
• Power, A. (2009) 'Spatial Perspectives on Voluntarism in Learning Disabilities Services in Ireland'. Journal of Social Policy. Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 299-315
• Power, A. (2008) 'Caring for Independent Lives: Geographies of Caring for Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities'. Social Science and Medicine. Vol. 67, Issue 5, pp. 834-843.
  

Chapters

• Power, A. (2010) A Geography of Intellectual Disabilities. In Lucas C. Eklund and Aron S. Nyman (Eds.) Learning and Memory Developments and Intellectual Disabilities, Nova Science Publishers (6000 words).
• Power, A. (2010) 'The geographies of interdependence in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities', in Hall, E., Wilton, R. and Chouinard, V. (eds.) Disabling Geographies, Ashgate, Aldershot. (8000 words)
  
• Milligan, C. and Power, A. (2009) The Changing Geography of Care, for Brown, T. McLafferty, S. & Moon, G. (Eds.) Companion to Human Geography, Blackwell. (8000 words)

Reports

• Hatton, C., Robertson, J., Power, A., Baines, S. & Emerson, E. (2009) Summary of Responses to the Consultation on Valuing People Now: from progress to transformation < http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Responsestoconsultations/DH_093370> . CeDR Research Report, HM Government, London.

Book Reviews

• Power, A. (2008) Review of J. Phillips, 'Care: Key Concepts', Social & Cultural Geography. 9(8): 955-965.

Interests and Hobbies

Surfing, Fell Running, Liverpool FC.

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