“I am the bastard child of the Empire”: Women and Hybrid Identity in Andrea Levy’s Fiction by Vesna Ukić Košta

“…In the novels published in the course of the nineties, Every Light in the House Burnin’ (1994), Never Far from Nowhere (1996), and Fruit of the Lemon (1999), Andrea Levy (1956–2019), a British writer of Jamaican origin, focuses on the experiences of British-born daughters of first-generation Caribbean immigrants in Britain. This paper will examine how Levy’s young protagonists struggle to come to terms with their highly hybridized identities, which resist reductive racial categories of ‘white’ and ‘black.’ …”
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Effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for patients with obesity: a realist synthesis protocol by Jing Hu, Haoyang Li, Donghong Wang, Lizhe Huang, Xuejuan Li, Youmei Su, Rixiao Liang

“…Systematic searches in databases—including PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, ProQuest, CINAHL, CNKI, Wanfang and VIP—will be conducted to generate relevant evidence. Qualitative research methods, facilitated by NVivo software, will be used to code and organise the data into themes related to the research context, mechanisms and outcomes, thereby refining the theoretical framework.Ethics and dissemination This research proposal and its corresponding realist synthesis do not require ethical approval. …”
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