Dr Jatinder Sandhu

Social Research and Qualitative insight Lead. People Analytics and Insight. Sikh-Punjabi. Views my own!

[Dr Jatinder Sandhu @JitSandhu]

I had the pleasure of working on this project - involving people with lived experience in systems change, using innovative mobile ethnography methods. Some great insights about how to do it effectively. Check out the report below.

[Fulfilling Lives evaluation @FLevaluation]

Lived experience experts must be kept informed and receive timely feedback to help ensure that involvement is meaningful and not tokenistic. Download our latest report here https://t.co/ueGWdiTU70 to #seethefullpicture

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of Scotland’s government, apologized this week for the country’s practice of forcing tens of thousands of unmarried women to give up their babies for adoption from the 1940s until the 1970s. https://t.co/f1I06JIBLO

[CFE @CFE_Ltd]

We're recruiting! Social Research Manager vacancies. Check our website for details https://t.co/W0IWMk33wL

[Beth Collinson, PhD. @BethCollinson_]

@jwelf @JitSandhu @7Sheila11 Amazing work team, and a pleasure to collaborate with you all on this!

[Jo Welford @jwelf]

Great to see our paper on using an app for qualitative research with people experiencing multiple disadvantage published. @BethCollinson_ @JitSandhu @7Sheila11 we got there in the end!

Open Access so available to all.

https://t.co/cmG4HQop9I

[Dr Jatinder Sandhu @JitSandhu]

@jwelf @BethCollinson_ @7Sheila11 Great to co-author with you guys on this and a great experience exploring mobile methodologies in research!

[Dr Jatinder Sandhu @JitSandhu]

@MissToyne All the best for your new adventures - sounds like a really interesting role! Thank you for being such a great teacher to T ☺️

[Dr Jatinder Sandhu @JitSandhu]

@jwelf @CFE_Ltd @HuddlestonNigel Great impact @jwelf!

[Jo Welford @jwelf]

Interested in coproducing work with people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage? @FLevaluation webinar with some great speakers lined up is open to all! Whatever your experience, come and hear more about getting started on coproduction. Sign up now!👇

[CFE @CFE_Ltd]

Exciting opportunity to join CFE as a mixed method Research Manager.https://t.co/eq9fexjIGS

[Michael Lambert @GrandCamouflage]

The transcript from the first @HumanRightsCtte hearing on the forced adoption of children of unmarried mothers in England and Wales from 1949-76, to which I, @JitSandhu and Gordon Harold (@CamEdFac) contributed, is now online:
https://t.co/gtn2UPVeSq

[UK Parliament Human Rights Committee @HumanRightsCtte]

Our session begins with our Chair @harrietharman welcoming our panel of witnesses: Professor Gordon Harold of @Cambridge_Uni, Dr Michael Lambert (@GrandCamouflage) of @LancasterUni, and Social Researcher Dr Jatinder Sandhu (@JitSandu).

📺Watch live here: https://t.co/X2jvGbxUtC

[UK Parliament Human Rights Committee @HumanRightsCtte]

Our panel are explaining what Mother and Baby homes were and whether going to one was an unmarried mother’s only option during the years 1949-76.

📺Watch live here: https://t.co/X2jvGbxUtC

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

"Where would you start if you were a pregnant unmarried teenager? Who can you trust? The infrastructure was entirely constructed to remediate a problem, and the unmarried mother was seen as the bearer of that problem" Prof Harold of @CamEdFac tells @HumanRightsCtte

[UK Parliament Human Rights Committee @HumanRightsCtte]

Our session on the adoption of children of unmarried women from 1949-1976 has now ended.

You can watch it again here: https://t.co/X2jvGbxUtC

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

"Adoption practice at local levels might have varied but it was all within the framework of what the state had provided" says @JitSandhu. @GrandCamouflage agrees that legislative framework created the sphere for practice. @HumanRightsCtte

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

"It was a very formal process of adoptions. It was the legislative framework that gave local authorities the power to arrange adoptions w/out having received a child into care. Adoption legislation was the key enabler of this process." @JitSandhu tells @HumanRightsCtte

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

.@JitSandhu "During this period there was very little state support for single parents, so being able to support a child was unrealistic in practice. Levels of welfare were really restrictive"

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

"There's evidence to say that women were often taken in middle of the night so no-one could see she was pregnant, & taken to mother & baby home outside the local area to save the family from the shame & stigma about it." @JitSandhu tells @HumanRightsCtte

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

.@JitSandhu "Often social workers recorded that women's parents had said its fine for you to come back home, but you are not allowed to bring that child". @HumanRightsCtte

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

"During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, adoption really was a means of controlling the illegitimate birth rates whilst also fulfilling the right for family life for those adoptive couples experiencing infertility issues" @JitSandhu tells @HumanRightsCtte at the beginning of the session