Dr Leroi Henry
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Qualifications
BA Law and Sociology (Warwick)
PhD (Open University)
Background/Career
In 2001 I completed a doctorate in International Development which focused on the relationships between migration, ethnic identities and collective action in the oldest and most successful indigenous development organisation in Ethiopia. I then went on to explore the role of diaspora and other transnational institutions in promoting development in Africa. I have since focused primarily on researching the experiences of migrant health professionals in the UK working on two projects the Researching equal opportunities for internationally recruited nurses and other healthcare professionals (REOH) project and the Overseas Trained South-Asian Doctors and the Development of Geriatric Medicine (SAG) project. I have also undertaken consultancy work with MEDACT on behalf of the BMA and Save the Children exploring the management and impact of the migration of medical professionals. In addition I also worked at the NHS Centre for Involvement at the University of Warwick exploring public and patient involvement in decision making in the NHS.
Research interests
- Restructuring and the reproduction of social inequality
- Social dialogue, restructuring and worker health
- The intersection of differing axes of privilege and marginalisation (ethnicity, gender, class etc) in the workplace
- The role of patronage networks in career progression for BME professionals
- Thematerial effects of discursive and other responses to perceived discrimination
- The role of mainstream organisations and other support networks in combating discrimination
- Managing migration for the benefit of sending countrieThe intersection of differing axes of privilege and marginalisation (ethnicity, gender, class etc) in the workplace
- The role of patronage networks in career progression for BME professionals
- The material effects of discursive and other responses to perceived discrimination
- The role of mainstream organisations and other support networks in combating discrimination
- Managing migration for the benefit of sending countries
I am currently working on European Commission DG Employment projects on racial discrimination in the workplace and restructuring and social dialogue.
Teaching interests
I teach on all modules of the WLRI Professional Doctorate programme and work on the Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Changing Employment. I currently supervise six doctoral students.
Contact details
Dr Leroi Henry
Senior Research Fellow
Working Lives Research Institute
Room: TM1-56
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Tel: 020 7133 4364
Publications
Book chapters
- Henry, L. (2008) Disengagement and demoralisation: The roots of Ghanaian nurses’ responses to discrimination in the NHS. In Tschudin, V. ed The Globalisation of nursing: ethical, legal and political issues, Radcliffe Medical, Oxford.
- Henry, L (2006) Participatory Development as Ethnic Citizenship: the case of Gurage Peoples Self–help and Development Organisation. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. (104-110), Uhlig, S Ed. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
- Henry, L. (2004) Citizenship, morality and participatory development: The case of the Sebat Bet Gurage, in Mohan, G. and Hickey, S. Eds. Participation from tyranny to transformation. Zed. London.
Peer reviewed Journal Articles
- Bornat, J. Raghuram P. Henry, L. (2012) Revisiting the archives - opportunities and challenges: a case study from the history of Geriatric Medicine Sociological Research Online 17 (2) 11
- Bornat, J. Henry, L. Raghuram P. (2011) The making of careers, the making of a discipline: Luck and chance in migrant careers in geriatric medicine Journal of Vocational Behaviour 78 3 pp 342-350
- Bornat J., Raghuram P., Henry L. (2011) 'The hospital bed as a site of spatial practice: UK and South Asia qualified geriatricians and the development of the geriatric specialty' Area 43 (4), pp. 430–437
- Raghuram P. ,Bornat J. and Henry L. (2011) ‘The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK’ Sociology of Health and Illness 33 2
- Raghuram P., Henry L. and Bornat J. (2010) ‘Difference and distinction? Non-migrant and migrant networks’ Sociology 44 4
- Raghuram P. , Bornat J. and Henry L. (2009) ‘Ethnic clustering among South Asian geriatricians in the UK – an oral history study’ Diversity in Health and Social Care 16(4), pp. 287–296
- Bornat J., Raghuram P., Henry L. (2011) 'The hospital bed as a site of spatial practice: UK and South Asia qualified geriatricians and the development of the geriatric specialty' Area 43 (4), pp. 430–437.
- Bornat, J. Henry, L. and Raghuram P. (2009) 'Don't mix race with the specialty': interviewing South Asian overseas-trained geriatricians. Oral History Journal, 38, 1.
- Bornat, J. Henry, L and Raghuram, P. (2008) Overseas-trained South Asian doctors and the development of Geriatric Medicine. Generations Review. 18 (3) http://www.britishgerontology.org/08newsletter3/education_careers.asp.
- Henry, L. (2007) Institutionalised disadvantage: Older Ghanaian nurses and midwives reflections on career progression. NHS Journal of Clinical Nursing 16 (12) 2196-2203.
- Mackintosh M, Mensah K, Henry, L and Rowson M (2006) Aid, restitution and international fiscal redistribution in health care: implications of health professionals’ migration. Journal of International Development 18, 757-770.
- Mackintosh M, Raghuram P and Henry, L (2006) 'A perverse subsidy': African-trained doctors and nurses in the NHS Soundings 34, Autumn 2006.
- Henry, L., et al. (2004). Networks: Transnational Agents of Development. Third World Quarterly 25 (5).
- Henry, L. and Mohan, G. (2003) Making Homes: The Ghanaian Diaspora, Institutions and Development. Journal of International Development, 15, 611-622.
Other publications
- Herron-Marx, S. Bayliss, H. Staniszewska, S. Henry, L. Bagley, P. and Tritter, J. (2008) A baseline assessment of the current state of Patient and Public Involvement in English NHS Trusts: Findings of the National Survey 2007, Full Report NHS Centre for Involvement, University of Warwick.
http://www.nhscentreforinvolvement.nhs.uk/docs/Annual%20Survey%202007%20report.pdf.
- Larsen J, Henry, L and Smith P (2007) Closed Doors: Career progression for overseas trained nurses is a struggle, Nursing Standard 33 2 April 25th.
- Mensah K, Mackintosh M. and Henry L. (2005). The ‘skills drain’ of health professionals from the developing world: a framework for policy formulation. London, Medact.
http://www.medact.org/content/Skills%20drain/Mensah%20et%20al.%202005.pdf
Reports
- Henry, L. et al (2011) The Health Impact of Restructuring on Public sector employees and the role of social dialogue (HIRES.Public) Final Report WLRI London DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, EU Commission
- Henry, L. (in Teissier C. et al) (2010) Psycho-social risks, services and social dialogue. Astrees, Paris DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, EU Commission
Conference papers
- Hearing and not hearing: using the idea of polyphony to explore the role of voice in interviews exploring inter-cultural relationships in the workplace, Annual Conference of the Oral History Society, 3-4 July 2009, University of Strathclyde
- Overseas-trained South Asian doctors and the geriatric specialty: a necessary partnership ‘faute de mieux’? University of Manchester and Open University seminar History of migrant doctors and other migrant health workers in the NHS 24 June 2009 University of Manchester
- Revisiting the archives - opportunities and challenges: a case study from the history of Geriatric Medicine ESRC seminar series on Career Migration Seminar 5: Migration for Career Opportunity, Growth and Development 19 June 2009 University of Warwick
- Elite migration and experiences in the workplace: the intersection of race and class for south Asian trained doctors in the UK. British Sociological Association Conference, 17 April 2009 University of Cardiff
- Redefining transitions in a professional biography - a migrant doctor's life story' Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies and Centre for Policy on Ageing, Seminar 13 in the series The Representation of Older People in Ageing Research, 21 January 2009, Open University, Milton Keynes
- 'Secondary Analysis and re-using archived data' , Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies and Centre for Policy on Ageing, Seminar 12 in the series The Representation of Older People in Ageing Research, 12 December 2008, Centre for Policy on Ageing, London
- Revisiting the archives - opportunities and challenges: a case study from the history of geriatric medicine Royal Holloway College 26 November 2008
- The role of patronage networks in South Asian medical migrants' labour market participation in the UK ESRC RAIKE seminar series The Open University 12 November 2008
- Marking the ageing body: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric care in the UK, Bodywork, ESRC Seminar Series, The University of Warwick 24 October 2008
- Biographical interviews in a marginalised specialty: the case of South Asian overseas trained geriatricians The Open University 8 October 2008 Biographical studies centre
- ‘Living and working “in someone else's home”: overseas-trained South Asian geriatricians’ reflections on their experiences in the UK health system’, Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology, 4/6 September, University of the West of England
- ‘Study as work: the role of “training” in the lives of medical migrants to the UK’, European Regional Studies Association, 30 August, University of Liverpool
- ‘Hospitals as a microcosm of global learning: South Asian overseas-trained doctors working in the geriatric specialty’ in the session ‘Spaces of Learning’, at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society London, 28-29 August 2008
- ‘Age as professional and personal transition: UK and South Asia qualified geriatricians reflect on their lives’ in the session ‘Theorizing Life Transitions’ at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society London, 28-29 August 2008.
- “Don't mix race with the specialty” (retired South Asian consultant geriatrician): interviewing South Asian overseas-trained geriatricians’, Oral History Annual conference, 4-5 July 2008, Centre for History of Medicine, University of Birmingham.
- Migrant clustering: the role of patronage networks in South Asian medical migrants' labour market participation in the UK, Joint Conference of Bristol University's Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and UCL's Migration Research Unit, 15-16 May, 2008, University College London.
- The impacts of user involvement on health care service delivery, evaluation and planning: Evidence from systematic reviews. New Policy, Opportunities and Tensions: Moving Forward with User Involvement in Health and Social Care Services. Institute of Health, School of Health and Social Studies University of Warwick. 14 June 2007
- Disengagement and demoralisation: How the responses of some Ghanaian nurses to discrimination in the NHS entrench marginalisation. Paper presented at The Globalisation of Nursing: Ethical, Legal and Political issues Conference Guildford, 10-11 July 2006
- The findings of the REOH study. Presented at the REOH launch Valuing and recognising the talents of a diverse healthcare workforce 30 June 2006 London
- The material effects of discursive responses to discrimination in career progression in the NHS: How Ghanaian nurses resist and entrench racism Paper presented at Royal College of Nursing International Research Conference, York. March 2006
- Researching Equal Opportunities for Overseas-trained Healthcare professionals. Presentation to the Commission for Racial Equality. London 18 Feb 2006
- Forms of racism and discrimination in career progression in the NHS: Evidence from Ghanaian nurses and midwives Paper presented at Understanding & tackling ethnic inequalities in health. An ESRC Research Seminar Series Jan 2006.
