Articles by Abby Kendrick
BMJ Open, 2025
Objectives To examine the authorship and content of systematic reviews (SRs) of biases experience... more Objectives To examine the authorship and content of systematic reviews (SRs) of biases experienced by medical professionals through a gender lens.
Design Review of SRs.
Data sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO and CINAHL from inception. Searches were conducted in May 2022 and updated in October 2023.
Eligibility criteria Reviews of studies reporting biases experienced by hospital physicians at any stage of their careers and in any country. Reviews were included if they used systematic methods to search the literature and synthesise the data. Non-English language publications were excluded.
Data extraction and synthesis The main theme of each eligible review was identified through qualitative thematic analysis. We used NamSor to determine the first/last authors’ gender and computed the proportion of female authors for each review theme.
Results 56 articles were included in the review. These covered 12 themes related to gender, race and ethnicity bias experienced by physicians at any stage of their careers. The overall proportion of female authors was 70% for first authors and 51% for last authors. However, the gender of authors by theme varied widely. Female authors dominated reviews of research on discrimination and motherhood, while male authors dominated reviews on burnout, mental health and earnings. Only six reviews were identified that included race and ethnicity; 9 out of the 12 first and last authors were female.
Conclusions Understanding the potential for a gendered evidence base on biases experienced by hospital physicians is important. Our findings highlight apparent differences in the issues being prioritised internationally by male and female authors, and a lack of evidence on interventions to tackle biases. Going forward, a more collaborative and comprehensive framework is required to develop an evidence base that is fit for purpose. By providing a point of reference, the present study can help this future development.
International Journal of Human Rights, 2020
This article argues that in considering the effects of economic policy reform on women’s human ri... more This article argues that in considering the effects of economic policy reform on women’s human rights, we must also consider the political economy mechanisms through which these effects operate. Treating the distribution of policy costs and benefits as outcomes of a given state of the world is unsatisfactory because economic policy reforms both shape and are shaped by those costs and benefits. Using a political economy model of economic policymaking, the article shows how the choice of economic policy and its impacts on women’s human rights are endogenous to various gendered political-economic forces, which have interest, institutional and ideational-based dynamics. It argues further that while the gender-related standards set out in the Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights are an ambitious step forward in addressing possible negative impacts on women’s human rights, their relative salience in the shaping of economic policy will be mediated by these same political-economic forces.
Human Rights Quarterly, Aug 2017
This article argues that since fulfilment of social rights is dependent on the availability of re... more This article argues that since fulfilment of social rights is dependent on the availability of resources we must look beyond the field of international human rights, to economics, to provide a stylised way of thinking about measuring compliance. Using conditional rights as a starting point, the article argues that there are certain normative and practical factors that limit social rights and it is in allowing for these factors that gives rise to the maximum resources dilemma: how can the content of social rights be determined if it is allowed to differ across resource contexts, and how can compliance be measured if the content is not determinate? It argues further that the empirical tools of microeconomics offer a systematic way to deal with the dilemma and outlines a methodological sketch for measuring compliance.
Papers by Abby Kendrick
Centre for Homelessness Impact, 2024
During 2022/2023 a collaborative working group met to develop a new/updated career framework for ... more During 2022/2023 a collaborative working group met to develop a new/updated career framework for nurses in acute medicine, led by the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) nurse council representative. The first stage of this work involved a rapid review of evidence to strengthen understanding of the issues and to develop the work. The aim is to understand the barriers and facilitators to knowledge and skills acquisition for career progression in AMUs.
JUSTICE, 2023
Our vision is of fair, accessible, and efficient legal processes, in which the individual's right... more Our vision is of fair, accessible, and efficient legal processes, in which the individual's rights are protected, and which reflect the country's international reputation for upholding and promoting the Rule of Law. To this end: • We carry out research and analysis to generate, develop and evaluate ideas for law reform, drawing on the experience and insights of our members. • We intervene in superior domestic and international courts, sharing our legal research, analysis and arguments to promote strong and effective judgments. • We promote a better understanding of the fair administration of justice among political decisionmakers and public servants. • We bring people together to discuss critical issues relating to the justice system, and to provide a thoughtful legal framework to inform policy debate.
United Nations General Assembly, 2018
Item 74 (b) of the preliminary list* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights quest... more Item 74 (b) of the preliminary list* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Civil Justice Council , 2020
This factsheet examines the enjoyment of economic and social rights in Spain. The data presented ... more This factsheet examines the enjoyment of economic and social rights in Spain. The data presented in this factsheet cover the period from 2007 and 2010 onwards, specifically to focus attention on the human rights impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures taken in response to it. The analysis concludes that over the past four years poverty in Spain has increased and inequality has widened as a result of austerity policies. Evidence shown in this factsheet makes clear that the effect of these measures on the economic and social rights of the most vulnerable has been devastating.
LSB (ed) Understanding the economic rationale for legal services regulation - A collection of essays pp.36-40 , Mar 2011
This short essay is one of a series commissioned by the Legal Services Board in response to the r... more This short essay is one of a series commissioned by the Legal Services Board in response to the research report 'Understanding the economic rationale for legal services regulation' by Chris Decker and George Yarrow (2010). It broadly supports Decker and Yarrow's move away modern neo-classical economic perspectives on regulation towards a comparative institutional approach, but argues that institutional aproaches might be usefully tied-in with a behavioural economics perspective as part of a "moral economy‟ approach to professional regulation, which properly recognises the potentially reflexive influences between markets and moral and cultural norms.
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Articles by Abby Kendrick
Design Review of SRs.
Data sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO and CINAHL from inception. Searches were conducted in May 2022 and updated in October 2023.
Eligibility criteria Reviews of studies reporting biases experienced by hospital physicians at any stage of their careers and in any country. Reviews were included if they used systematic methods to search the literature and synthesise the data. Non-English language publications were excluded.
Data extraction and synthesis The main theme of each eligible review was identified through qualitative thematic analysis. We used NamSor to determine the first/last authors’ gender and computed the proportion of female authors for each review theme.
Results 56 articles were included in the review. These covered 12 themes related to gender, race and ethnicity bias experienced by physicians at any stage of their careers. The overall proportion of female authors was 70% for first authors and 51% for last authors. However, the gender of authors by theme varied widely. Female authors dominated reviews of research on discrimination and motherhood, while male authors dominated reviews on burnout, mental health and earnings. Only six reviews were identified that included race and ethnicity; 9 out of the 12 first and last authors were female.
Conclusions Understanding the potential for a gendered evidence base on biases experienced by hospital physicians is important. Our findings highlight apparent differences in the issues being prioritised internationally by male and female authors, and a lack of evidence on interventions to tackle biases. Going forward, a more collaborative and comprehensive framework is required to develop an evidence base that is fit for purpose. By providing a point of reference, the present study can help this future development.
Papers by Abby Kendrick
Books by Abby Kendrick
Design Review of SRs.
Data sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO and CINAHL from inception. Searches were conducted in May 2022 and updated in October 2023.
Eligibility criteria Reviews of studies reporting biases experienced by hospital physicians at any stage of their careers and in any country. Reviews were included if they used systematic methods to search the literature and synthesise the data. Non-English language publications were excluded.
Data extraction and synthesis The main theme of each eligible review was identified through qualitative thematic analysis. We used NamSor to determine the first/last authors’ gender and computed the proportion of female authors for each review theme.
Results 56 articles were included in the review. These covered 12 themes related to gender, race and ethnicity bias experienced by physicians at any stage of their careers. The overall proportion of female authors was 70% for first authors and 51% for last authors. However, the gender of authors by theme varied widely. Female authors dominated reviews of research on discrimination and motherhood, while male authors dominated reviews on burnout, mental health and earnings. Only six reviews were identified that included race and ethnicity; 9 out of the 12 first and last authors were female.
Conclusions Understanding the potential for a gendered evidence base on biases experienced by hospital physicians is important. Our findings highlight apparent differences in the issues being prioritised internationally by male and female authors, and a lack of evidence on interventions to tackle biases. Going forward, a more collaborative and comprehensive framework is required to develop an evidence base that is fit for purpose. By providing a point of reference, the present study can help this future development.