Ruth Patrick’s research while affiliated with University of Leeds and other places

... Media portrayals often combine elements of religious sacrifice with modern heroic narratives, creating hybrid forms of cultural expression. The impact on political discourse extends beyond simple policy debates to shape fundamental conceptions of citizenship, rights, and community responsibility [39]. Political rhetoric often draws on both religious and secular sacrificial narratives. ...

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Comparing martyrdom and sacrifice in religious views with modern gun culture and the concept of heroism

... This means that more than members of any other disabled group, people with mental illness felt the impact of the above restriction policies. Over the years, a debate has developed about the extent to which those policies have been successful in returning people to long-term paid work (OECD 2010; Lindsay and Houston 2013; Lunt and Horsfall 2013; van Berkel 2013; Brussig and Knuth 2013; Patrick 2011a). In contrast, relatively little has been said about their impact on the wellbeing and everyday life of claimants whose disability had prevented them from working. ...

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Only Making Things Worse: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Wrongly Removing Disability Benefits from People with Mental Illness

... Once the state has granted the removal of barriers, Moses (PBUT) and Umme Maktoum are both enabled to take an active societal role. This finding is similar to Patrick's (2012) and Trani et al. (2011) research concerning the participation of disabled people in physical and social activities when they have the right support. It is also interesting to note that in the story of Moses (PBUT), he was not labeled as having a disability. ...

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Representations of Disability in Qur’anic Narratives

... If the individual cannot themselves sustain their basic needs, society steps in to ensure a minimum standard of living. Over the years, such unemployment support has become at least partly conditional in many countries (see, for example, Dahl 2003;Patrick 2014;Wright and Patrick 2019). However, both Dahl (2003) and Patrick (2014), by analysing the effectiveness of conditional support, find no positive effect of such measures. ...

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Welfare Conditionality and Social Identity Effect Mechanisms and the Case of Immigrant Support

... Changing expectations of mothers in the UK social security system Over the past three decades, there has been an increase in the emphasis placed on paid work as the primary responsibility of citizenship (Patrick, 2012) which has led to changing expectations of mothers within the UK social security system. Historically there has been some recognition of mothers' caring roles in the form of unconditional social assistance granted on the basis of their caring responsibilities (Daly, 2011;Davies, 2015); albeit at an inferior level to assistance for those engaged in paid work (Orloff, 1993;Lister, 2003). ...

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Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the New Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work

... As such, it is a civil rights act, advocating equal citizenship for persons with disabilities in terms of autonomy and respect for human diversity. Citizenship is a layered construct: it refers to (the ability to exercise) civil rights, (15) making a contribution to society (often narrowed to paid employment), (16) and to democratic practice and identity (17). These aspects concur with the review by Waldschmidt and Sépulchre, (18) who described three ambivalent citizenship roles for persons with disabilities: social citizenship, autonomous citizenship and political citizenship. ...

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Aging With Cerebral Palsy: A Photovoice Study Into Citizenship

... Ali et al. (2011) found that people with disabilities are just as likely as their non-disabled peers to express the desire of wanting a job; however, they are less likely to look for one due to less optimism about finding a job as influenced by the employer's perception, and stigma, among others. Likewise, Patrick (2011) maintained that while disabled persons are persistent job seekers, they are usually discouraged due to potential discrimination by employers. Taken together, it may well be the case that most people with disabilities have the desire to seek jobs but often remain unemployed due to several barriers (Lindsay et al., 2018). ...

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Characteristics of deaf workers and job longevity - evidence from Philippine industries