Edward Omeni

• PhD
• Research Associate at DeZIM. Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung

Background Over the last 20 years governments around the world have promoted user involvement in an effort to improve the quality of health services. Despite the growing emphasis placed on user involvement in England, there is a paucity of recent studies looking at how service users and professionals perceive the outcomes of user involvement polici...

Background: Since 1990, health policy in England has stressed the importance of user involvement in shaping and delivering services. Aims: To explore mental health service user-led organisations (ULOs) in England, as they interact with decision-makers to bring about change desired by them with a focus on institutional norms behaviour and special...

.

The following chapter examines the theme of social support within the narratives of the study participants. More specifically, the section looks at how incidents and realities of violence, as a feature of the milieu-situational context of the students, relate to dynamics of social support. By focusing on processes, structures and rationales associa...

The following chapter sheds further light on the life strategies of the study participants, placing closer focus on the narratives and descriptions relating to the themes of self-positioning, identity and personal transformation in the context and in the aftermath of experiences of violence. The themes of personal transformation and alterations in...

Einladung zur Hybridtagung: Migration, Altern und Pflege: Aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven Montag, 20. März, 2023 13:00 bis 16:15 I Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM)Mauerstraße 76 | 10117 Berlin I Raum: Saal 3. Stock und im Präsenz mit Registrierung bis 17 März oder Live stream via Zoom: Zoom Link: https://lnkd.in...

The chapter examines narratives on violence among international students in Poland with a particular focus on the prevalent causal attributions associated with experienced or observed forms of interpersonal or indirect forms of violence. The chapter sheds light on individually and collectively derived interpretations of violence and meaning making...

Edward Omeni draws on concepts from sociology, psychology, and social pedagogical research to examine experiences of violence among international students in Poland. His research study places particular focus on the range of strategies adopted by the students in response to forms of personal and social violence as well as the resulting forms of soc...

Edward Omeni draws on concepts from sociology, psychology, and social pedagogical research to examine experiences of violence among international students in Poland. His research study places particular focus on the range of strategies adopted by the students in response to forms of personal and social violence as well as the resulting forms of soc...

The following chapter attempts a conceptualisation of the research findings which addresses relevant theoretical themes, fulfils the requirements of the research methodology and addresses the primary research questions. Continuing the analysis of the narratives using the documentary method the various dispositions, forms of identity work and orient...

This paper examines the experiences of a group of *African students in Poland, with the aim of understanding the affective and practical coping tactics they employ in response to social exclusion and racism. The analysis of coping strategies follows an in-depth overview of experiences of racialisation, othering and racial discrimination in both ins...

What is the connection between transnational social support and religious movements? What types of transnational social support are provided by religious groups? What are the forms and functions of transnational religious support networks? These are some of the questions explored during the international workshop “Transnational Perspectives on (New...

Omeni, Edward, Barnes, Marian, MacDonald, Dee, Crawford, Mike and Rose, Diana (2014)

ContextNational Health Foundation Trusts present opportunities for individual mental health service users to be active in the governance of trusts. This is one of a range of mechanisms for patient and public involvement and one which promotes an individual rather than collective approach to involvement.Objective Within the context of a broader stud...

This study set out to measure the extent and perceived impact of service user involvement (SUI) in mental health services and to explore different forms of SUI, both collective and individual. The focus was on service users’ (SUs’) interactions with managers and other key decision-makers in the UK NHS and social care. The theoretical frameworks use...