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Title: Mr. Job Title: Innogen Postgraduate Student Tel: +44 (0) 1908 652937 Fax: +44 (0) 1908 654825 Email: r.chamba@open.ac.uk Building: ESRC Innogen Centre, Development Policy and Practice Group, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Room Number:
Rampaul is a Ph.D. student at Innogen, based at the Open University. He is working on a PhD project provisionally entitled 'Understanding Bio-medical and Social Explanations for Schizophrenia among Black African-Caribbean People'.
For several years, the issue of British born African-Caribbeans' over-representation within psychiatric in-patient facilities, combined with greater diagnoses of schizophrenia compared to other ethnic groups, has become an enduring issue within psychiatric epidemiology.
The principal research question explored in this study is: How and why do bio?medical mental health researchers and non?biomedical mental health professionals support and contest the truism that Black African?Caribbeans are more susceptible to developing schizophrenia than other racial/ethnic groups within England?
The research will examine how the significance attached to race/ethnicity and schizophrenia, and its perceived relationship, informs the issue of over-representation, and vice versa. Based primarily on qualitative research methods, the research will involve interviews with scientists working within psychiatric epidemiology, genetics, and neuropsychiatry. Interviews will also be conducted with professionals who have contributed to, and challenged claims about, African-Caribbeans and schizophrenia.
The perspectives of other significant commentators within transcultural psychiatry and medical anthropology will also be explored. The research will be situated within a broader sociologically informed historical narrative about the relationship between race/ethnicity and psychiatry in the UK.
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