Projects

Development of a future Dementia Research Leader: boosting training and development toward an independent Fellowship in strategies to support people who live with coexisting dementia and hearing loss
Dementia career development ICDA-03 31/07/2025 Emma Broome In progress
Developing a sustainable platform to understand the primary care, public health and social care needs for dementia, with a focus on underserved populations
Research project DP01 31/01/2025 Carol Brayne In progress
A novel approach to dementia risk prediction tool development for primary care implementation in our diverse UK population
Research project DP06 31/12/2024 Nadeem Qureshi Final reporting 2024
DEVELOP: DEmentia preVention and Economic anaLysis Of Policy change
Dementia career development ICDA-16 31/12/2024 Naaheed Mukadam In progress
Bathing adaptations in the homes of older adults: A randomised controlled trial, economic evaluation and process evaluation (BATH-OUT-2)
Research project P151 31/10/2024 Phillip Whitehead Final reporting 2024
Use of ICT by carers of people living with dementia
Research project P159 31/07/2024 Derek King Final reporting 2024
Diverse experiences of unpaid carers across the caring trajectory
Research project P148 30/04/2024 Diane Fox Final reporting 2024
The ESSENCE (Economics of Social care compendium) continuation study: Examining the economic case for a range of adult social care interventions
Research project P153 30/04/2024 Martin Knapp Completed 2024
Feasibility study of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) to support staff in learning disability adult social services
Research project P155 30/04/2024 Peter Baker Completed 2024
Social care responses to self-neglect and hoarding among older people: what works in practice?
Research project P156 30/04/2024 John Woolham Completed 2024
Getting social care conversations right to improve care and support: exploring evaluation of “The 3 Conversations” in adult social care
Research project P157 30/04/2024 Madeleine Stevens Completed 2024
The supporting sexualities and genders study: Improving personal support for young adults who employ personal assistants
Research project P147 30/04/2024 Edmund Coleman-Fountain Completed 2024
Promoting homelike environments for people with intellectual disabilities living in group homes: Using Photovoice visual methods to co-produce and explore the feasibility of a user-generated homeliness checklist and toolkit intervention
Research project P160 30/04/2024 Deborah Chinn Completed 2024
A social care based evaluation of COVID-19: Understanding workforce response and effects (The SECURE Study)
Research project P169 30/04/2024 Catherine Robinson Completed 2024
Involving adults with intellectual and developmental disability who display behaviours that challenge in decisions relating to their support
Research project P165 30/04/2024 Jill Bradshaw Completed 2024
Safer online lives: use of the internet and social media by people with intellectual disabilities
Research project P166 30/04/2024 Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou Completed 2024
Interpreter-Mediated Mental Health Act Assessments (INForMHAA)
Research project P172 30/04/2024 Alys Young Completed 2024
The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being
Research project P189 30/04/2024 Denise Tanner Completed 2024
Developing a resource to support localities address user and family understanding of, and engagement with, reablement: a development and implementation study
Research project P187 30/04/2024 Bryony Beresford Completed 2024
Using data science to improve the detection of post-stroke dementia
Dementia career development ICDA-01 30/04/2024 Eugene Tang Final reporting 2024
Integrating palliative care into dementia care (Pall-Dem care) to improve outcomes and experiences of people living with advanced dementia and their family caregivers
Dementia career development ICDA-02 30/04/2024 Ping Guo Final reporting 2024
Healthy lifestyle support for carers of people living with dementia
Dementia career development ICDA-10 30/04/2024 Barbora Silarova Completed 2024
Developing a resource to support localities address user and family understanding of, and engagement with, reablement: a development and implementation study
Research project P187 30/04/2024 Bryony Beresford Completed 2024
The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being
Research project P189 30/04/2024 Denise Tanner Completed 2024
Understanding social care assessments of older LGBTQ+ people
Research project P190 30/04/2024 Jason Schaub Completed 2024
Care and Place (CAPE): the links between housing characteristics and condition and older people’s care needs, care use and care costs
Research project P191 30/04/2024 Nicola Brimblecombe Completed 2024
The impact of an improvised music-making programme on care home staff and family carer well-being: a process evaluation
Research project P197 30/04/2024 John Keady Completed 2024
Exploring the significance of home-delivered meals among clients of the Meals on Wheels service: a qualitative study
Scoping review P193 30/04/2024 Angeliki Papadaki Completed 2024
Councillors and Care: Understanding and enhancing the role of councillors in shaping adult social care practice
Research project P195 30/04/2024 Catherine Needham Completed 2024
How do adult and learning disability social workers engage with parents with learning disabilities?
Research project P196 30/04/2024 Beth Tarleton Completed 2024
The role of paid companions in remote consultations for people with learning disabilities
Research project P198 30/04/2024 Joseph Webb Completed 2024
Catalogues of Social Care Measures
Research project P202 30/04/2024 Martin Knapp Completed 2024
The role of adult social care for parents with learning disabilities when a child is no longer in their care
Research project P203 30/04/2024 Mary Baginsky Completed 2024
“When the money runs out”: capital depletion and transition out of self-funded care
Research project P204 30/04/2024 Philip Kinghorn Completed 2024
Lower level social care needs in prison: Constructing a theory of change
Research project P205 30/04/2024 Completed 2024
What are the costs and consequences of implementing NICE adult social care guidelines from a local systems perspective?
Research project P206 30/04/2024 Annette Bauer Completed 2024
Developing the role of Dementia Champions in the homecare sector
Research project P207 30/04/2024 Monica Leverton Completed 2024
Individual Research Career Development Award: Shabnam Ahmed
Career development IF25 30/04/2024 Shabnam Ahmed Completed 2024
Applying a system approach to explore social care services to support people with complex needs: Annalisa Casarin
Career development IF37 30/04/2024 Annalisa Casarin Completed 2024
Individual Research Career Development Award: Iria Cunha
Career development IF35 31/03/2024 Iria Cunha Completed 2024
Tailoring carers' assessments in NHS and adult social care to the needs of carers of people living with dementia
Research project DP03 31/03/2024 Paul Clarkson Completed 2024
Partnership in safeguarding people with dementia from a primary and social care perspectives
Research project DP09 31/03/2024 Reena Lasrado Final reporting 2024
Building research capacity to promote risk reduction and living well with dementia amongst minority ethnic communities
Dementia career development ICDA-05 31/03/2024 Sahdia Parveen Completed 2024
“My Life” - co-producing self-management resources with people living with dementia
Dementia career development ICDA-09 31/03/2024 Rachael Litherland Completed 2024
Development, evaluation and provision of an intervention for primary and community NHS staff to help carers and homecare workers supporting people living at home with dementia with their continence
Research project DP07 29/02/2024 Cathy Murphy Completed 2024
Understanding and using experiences of dementia to develop a Socialcaretalk section for public, policy, educators and service providers
Research project DP08 29/02/2024 Lyndsay Lindley Completed 2024
Generating a dementia-friendly SAFER-MH care bundle
Dementia career development ICDA-15 28/02/2024 Natasha Tyler Completed 2024
Care and support for people with social care needs on release from prison
Research project P136 31/12/2023 Katrina Forsyth Completed 2024
Helping older people with mental health needs to engage with social care: Enhancing support worker skills through a prototype learning and development intervention (The HOPES 2 Study)
Research project P171 31/12/2023 Louise Newbould Completed 2024
COVID-19, closeness, and care: The changing provision of direct care for older people in residential and home care settings
Research project P186 31/12/2023 Eleanor Johnson Completed 2024
Emergency decision making in dementia care: Exploring context and stakeholder perspectives for intervention development
Dementia career development ICDA-08 31/12/2023 Jemima Dooley Completed 2024
Developing a Social Care Strengths and Vulnerability Index (SC-SVI) for older people: a Proof-of-Concept study in local authorities
Research project P194 31/12/2023 Paul Clarkson Completed 2024
Economic evaluation to inform social care decision making
Developing Research Leader LF03 31/12/2023 Helen Weatherly Completed 2024
Reimagining collective forms of day care provision for older people
Research project P164 30/09/2023 Ailsa Cameron Completed 2023
Development of a decision support tool for older people who pay for social care, and their families
Research project P173 30/09/2023 Kate Baxter Completed 2023
Assistive technology and home modifications: outcomes for people living with dementia and their carers, service use patterns and costs
Research project P175 30/09/2023 Catherine Henderson Completed 2023
Collaborative housing and innovative social care practice (CHIC study)
Research project P170 31/08/2023 Karen West Completed 2023
Developing interactional strategies for delivering integrated personalised dementia care planning
Dementia career development ICDA-04 31/08/2023 Sarah Griffiths Completed 2024
Establishing a dementia related research career and writing a research funding proposal focused on developing a complex intervention to support the wellbeing of people with mild cognitive impairment, using a public health approach
Dementia career development ICDA-13 31/08/2023 Becky Field Completed 2023
Combining asset-based innovations to deliver whole system change within adult services
Research project P138 31/07/2023 Jerry Tew Completed 2023
Community resources impacting quality of residential care for older people
Scoping review P201 31/07/2023 Jacqueline Damant Completed 2023
Section 17 leave: supporting unpaid carers
Research project P154 30/06/2023 Martin Webber Completed 2023
Strengthening dementia care and support in England: national policies and local care ecosystems: Workstreams 1 and 2
Research project DP05 30/06/2023 Adelina Comas-Herrera Final reporting 2024
Improving physical health care in older people living with dementia in mental health settings: The ImPreSs-Care study
Dementia career development ICDA-06 30/06/2023 Lucy Beishon Completed 2024
Ageing in place with dementia: contextual scoping of under-served communities in the North East of England
Dementia career development ICDA-14 30/06/2023 Kate Gibson Completed 2023
Supporting autistic adults’ intimate lives (SAAIL study)
Research project P184 31/05/2023 Monique Huysamen Completed 2023
Older men’s mental health and emotional wellbeing: Use of community support groups
Research project P188 31/05/2023 Alexandra Vickery Completed 2023
The role of social network analysis in identifying unmet support needs for families supporting an adult with a learning disability within family homes
Research project P192 31/05/2023 Jillian Powell Completed 2024
Promoting good practice in relation to alcohol use in care homes for older people
Research project P149 30/04/2023 Sarah Wadd Completed 2023
Bridging the translation gap between learning disability policy and practice in search of flourishing lives
Research project P150 30/04/2023 Sara Ryan Completed 2023
Understanding and supporting older people's ‘transition’ between different care settings: Co-production of practice guidance for social care practitioners
Research project P182 30/04/2023 Wenjing Zhang Completed 2023
Avoidable harm in mental health social care (AHMHSoC) study
Research project P137 31/03/2023 Sarah Carr Completed 2023
Forward with dementia: co-producing support for social care needs after a dementia diagnosis
Research project DP02 31/03/2023 Jane Wilcock Completed 2023
Supporting people with learning disabilities at the edges of social care in social housing and the private rented sector
Research project P146 31/01/2023 Deborah Quilgars Completed 2023
Decluttering the homes of people with hoarding behaviours: Local authority commissioning, professional practices, and user experiences
Research project P208 31/01/2023 Jennifer Owen Completed 2023
Opening the “too difficult box": strengthening adult safeguarding responses to homelessness and self-neglect
Research project P141 31/12/2022 Michelle Cornes Completed 2023
Employing personal assistants during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for social care practice
Research project P167 31/12/2022 Kritika Samsi Completed 2022
Exploring and Understanding the lived experience in CAre homes for older people of Infection risk and transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study to inform what we can learn for future infectious disease outbREaks (UCAIRE)
Research project P178 31/12/2022 Kathleen Lane Completed 2023
Supporting people living with dementia in extra care housing
Research project P180 31/12/2022 Teresa Atkinson Completed 2023
Supporting social inclusion for people with serious mental illness living in supported housing (SUSHI study)
Research project P181 30/11/2022 Brynmor Lloyd-Evans Completed 2023
Fellowship preparation for digital research in dementia
Dementia career development ICDA-07 30/11/2022 Phil Joddrell Completed 2023
Personas for innovating in adult social care
Research project P200 31/10/2022 Juliette Malley Completed 2022
Conceptualising the relationship between mental health and social care in England
Scoping review P210 31/10/2022 Shoshana Lauter Completed 2022
The dyadic wider impact of social care: support for older carers and the people they care for (The DYAD project)
Research project P145 30/09/2022 Stacey Rand Completed 2022
Improving SOcial care pRactice in integrating mouth and Teeth care in personal care for pEople living with Dementia (SORTED)
Research project P179 30/09/2022 Dia Soilemezi Completed 2023
Career steps for future research on young carers and social care: Chloe Alexander
Career development IF22 31/08/2022 Chloe Alexander Completed 2022
Understanding the contribution of social enterprise to the social care sector: An exploratory study
Research project P161 31/07/2022 Kelly Hall Completed 2022
Scoping an idea to investigate social farms in England for people with dementia in collaboration with key stakeholders
Scoping review DP04 31/07/2022 Ruth Bartlett Completed 2022
Improving experiences regarding the use of digital communication technologies in interactions between Disabled service users and social workers in adult services: a qualitative service user-conducted enquiry to inform best practice
Research project P183 30/06/2022 Sophie Sarre Completed 2022
Self-funders' preferences for support in navigating community social care
Research project P140 31/03/2022 Mark Wilberforce Completed 2022
Formative evaluation of a new resource for social care service users, teachers, practitioners and policymakers
Research project P152 31/03/2022 Sue Ziebland Completed 2022
The operation of easements under the Coronavirus Act 2020 to England’s Care Act 2014
Research project P168 31/03/2022 Mary Baginsky Completed 2022
Supporting decision making for people with learning disabilities: Elizabeth Croot
Career development IF7 28/02/2022 Elizabeth Croot Completed 2022
Improving social care support for victims of violence in the British South Asian community: Saqba Batool
Career development IF13 31/01/2022 Saqba Batool Completed 2022
Enhancing person-centredness in the community support of older people (EPIC)
Research project P143 31/12/2021 Mark Wilberforce Completed 2022
What are the effects of unmet need for social care on unpaid carers? Risk factors, consequences and mediators
Research project P135 30/09/2021 Nicola Brimblecombe Completed 2021
Evaluating the costs and benefits of implementing adult social care guidelines of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): A scoping study
Scoping review P185 30/09/2021 Annette Bauer Completed 2021
Research Career Development: Matthew Bushell
Career development IF11 20/09/2021 Matthew Bushell Completed 2021
Social care assessment and LGBTQ+ older people: scoping
Scoping review P174 10/04/2021 Jason Schaub Completed 2021
Online advice to carers: an updated review of local authority websites in England
Research project P163 31/12/2020 Paul Willis Completed 2021
Partnerships between deaf people and hearing dogs: a mixed methods realist evaluation
Research project P111 31/03/2020 Bryony Beresford Completed 2020
Research priorities in adult social care
Scoping review S017 30/06/2019 Martin Knapp Completed 2019
Supporting carers providing end of life care during the transition from hospital to their family member's preferred place of care. A participatory learning and action research study
Research project P063 30/04/2019 Susan Duke Completed 2019
Developing a local prevention evaluation framework
Research project P078 30/04/2019 Completed 2019
Vision rehabilitation services: Investigating the impacts of two service models
Research project P079 30/04/2019 Parvaneh Rabiee Completed 2019
Narratives of Home: Personal accounts of life in the community following resettlement from an assessment and treatment unit
Research project P093 30/04/2019 Sandra Dowling Completed 2019
The role of adult social care in improving outcomes for young people who provide unpaid care
Research project P108 30/04/2019 Completed 2019
Older men at the margins: a study of older mens experiences of seeking social engagement and combating loneliness in later life
Research project P110 30/04/2019 Paul Willis Completed 2019
Exploring the contribution of the social work role in community mental health teams for working age adults and older people
Research project P112 30/04/2019 David Challis Completed 2019
Effective healthcare support to care homes
Research project P113 30/04/2019 David Challis Completed 2019
Making the economic case for adult social care
Research project P117 30/04/2019 Martin Knapp Completed 2019
The social care needs of adults with Tourette's syndrome: An exploratory study
Research project P118 30/04/2019 Melina Malli Completed 2019
Isolation and loneliness for people with sight loss in care homes
Research project P120 30/04/2019 Parvaneh Rabiee Completed 2019
Recruiting participants for adult social care studies: challenges and mitigating strategies
Methods review MR025 30/04/2019 Martin Knapp Completed 2020
Evaluating the impact of communication passports for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) living in adult social care
Research project P124 30/04/2019 Jill Bradshaw Completed 2019
Exploring support for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) to find loving relationships
Research project P122 30/04/2019 Michelle McCarthy Completed 2019
Experimental investigation into optimising the quality of social work decisions in professional supervision
Research project P065 31/03/2019 Angela Jenkinson Completed 2019
Uncovering the staff culture of good quality supported accommodation for people with intellectual disabilities
Research project P075 31/03/2019 Julie Beadle-Brown Completed 2019
Investigating "optimal time": Multiple perspectives on the timing of moving into care homes by people with dementia
Research project P088 31/03/2019 Kritika Samsi Completed 2019
Commissioning home care for older people
Research project P096 31/03/2019 David Challis Completed 2019
Connecting People Implementation Study
Research project P114 31/03/2019 Martin Webber Completed 2019
An exploration of local authority strategies and interventions to improve the quality of social care for older people in England through market shaping
Research project P115 31/03/2019 Juliette Malley Completed 2019
Delayed transfer of care (DTOC) among the older population
Research project P116 31/03/2019 Karen Jones Completed 2019
Exploring the role of volunteers in care settings for older people
Research project P119 31/03/2019 Ailsa Cameron Completed 2019
Transition to adult social care from residential schools
Research project P082 31/01/2019 Peter McGill Completed 2019
Becoming less eligible? Intellectual disability services in the age of austerity
Research project P100 31/01/2019 Rachel Forrester-Jones Completed 2019
Measuring outcomes of care homes (MOOCH)
Research project P069 31/12/2018 Ann-Marie Towers Completed 2019
Shared Lives costs and effectiveness (SLEE)
Research project P070 31/12/2018 Nadia Brookes Completed 2019
Socially oriented approaches to recovery for African and Caribbean men
Research project P083 31/12/2018 Frank Keating Completed 2019
Bathing adaptations in the homes of older adults – The BATH-OUT trial
Research project P090 30/09/2018 Completed 2018
Interviewing people living with dementia in social care research
Methods review M022 30/09/2018 Kritika Samsi Completed 2020
Research ethics in social care
Methods review M024 30/09/2018 Michael Dunn Completed 2020
Social factors, care and community treatment orders. Service user and practitioner perspectives
Research project P084 31/07/2018 Julia Stroud Completed 2018
Social inclusion in individuals with mental health problems
Research project P068 30/06/2018 Completed 2018
Pilot trial of an intervention to increase community connections and reduce loneliness for people with complex anxiety of depression (CDAT-CONNECT)
Research project P085 30/06/2018 Brynmor Lloyd-Evans Completed 2018
Keeping control: Exploring mental health service user perspectives on targeted violence and hostility in the context of adult safeguarding
Research project P087 30/06/2018 Sarah Carr Completed 2018
Who's Challenging Whom: A cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a staff training intervention to improve support staff attitudes and empathy towards adults with learning disability and challenging behaviours
Research project P064 30/04/2018 Richard Hastings Completed 2017
Defining quality home care for people with dementia: A mixed-methods study
Research project P067 30/04/2018 Justine Schneider Completed 2018
Support for older carers of older people: the impact of the 2014 Care Act
Research project P081 31/03/2018 Liz Lloyd Completed 2018
Forced marriage of adults with learning disabilities – developing knowledge, policy and practice to keep people safe
Research project P086 31/03/2018 Completed 2018
Exploring the role of workplace personal assistants for physically disabled people
Research project P092 31/03/2018 Katie Graham Completed 2019
Fathers with learning disabilities and their experiences of adult social care services
Research project P076 28/02/2018 Jon Symonds Completed 2018
Building Capacity Award: Outcomes in social care assessments (OSCA)
Fellowship P106 28/02/2018 Jon Symonds Completed
Independent financial advice about funding social care in later life – a project exploring evidence and practice
Research project P109 31/12/2017 Kate Baxter Completed 2018
Building Capacity Award: The role of mental health support workers in assisting older adults who decline social care
Fellowship P102 01/12/2017 Mark Wilberforce Completed 2017
Building Capacity Award: Factors that impact on telecare prescriber behaviour: evidencing current practice in statutory and non-statutory services
Fellowship P104 01/12/2017 Madeline Naick Completed 2017
The SIgN project - Meeting the information needs of self-funders
Research project P062 31/10/2017 Kate Baxter Completed 2017
The role of adult social care in the provision of appropriate adults for vulnerable adults in police custody
Research project P074 31/10/2017 Patricia Jessiman Completed 2017
Building Capacity Award: 'We're not the Enemy'. Exploring the relationships between social care practitioners, service users, community care lawyers and the law
Fellowship P107 31/10/2017 Caroline Miles Completed 2017
Learning from international models of advance care planning to inform evolving practice in England. An economic perspective
Research project P072 30/09/2017 Josie Dixon Completed 2017
The everyday operation of models of social care provision within the extra care sector
Research project P073 30/09/2017 Ailsa Cameron Completed 2018
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) disabled men & women and social care support
Research project P077 30/09/2017 David Abbott Completed 2018
Is there a clearer role for telecare in adult social care that will deliver better outcomes for older people?
Research project P089 30/09/2017 John Woolham Completed 2018
Building Capacity Award: Best practice in supporting decision-making for people with an acquired brain injury
Fellowship P103 30/09/2017 Completed 2017
Overcoming barriers: Unpaid care and employment in England (longitudinal study)
Research project P061 31/08/2017 Linda Pickard Completed 2017
Utilising carer-related research and knowledge: A scoping review and information resource
Research project P091 31/07/2017 Completed 2019
Predicting future unmet social care need and examining links with well-being
Research project P066 19/07/2017 Margaret Blake Completed 2017
Building Capacity Award: Understanding the prevalence, care and management of frailty in care home residents
Fellowship P105 30/06/2017 Completed 2017
Building Capacity Award: Evaluating the effectiveness of Active Support: establishing the platform
Fellowship P101 31/05/2017 Completed 2017
Preventing challenging behaviour of adults with complex needs in supported accommodation – a follow up study
Research project P071 31/03/2017 Peter McGill Completed 2017
Social care in prisons: a needs assessment and service requirements
Research project P080 31/03/2017 David Challis Completed 2017
Values of assessment
Research project P060 31/10/2016 Val Williams Completed 2016
Domestic violence against women with learning disabilities
Research project P039 29/02/2016 Michelle McCarthy Completed 2016
Costs and benefits of social care support for exoffenders with learning disabilities
Research project P040 29/02/2016 Glynis Murphy Completed 2016
Social isolation in mental health: A conceptual and methodological review
Scoping review S014 30/11/2015 Brynmor Lloyd-Evans Completed 2015
Residential school placements for children and young people with intellectual disabilities
Scoping review S010 31/07/2015 Nick Gore Completed 2015
Quality of life: measures and meanings in social care research
Methods review M016 31/05/2014 Ann Bowling Completed 2014
Improving effective integrated home support for people with dementia and their carers; development of a service fidelity index
Research project P007 30/04/2014 Robert Jones Completed 2014
Are personal budgets always the best way of delivering personalised social care services to older people?
Research project P019 30/04/2014 John Woolham Completed 2014
Can Participatory Video (PV) enhance social participation and well-being for people with dementia in residential social care?
Research project P023 30/04/2014 Andrea Capstick Completed 2014
Taking On and Taking Over: physically disabled young adults and their care and support arrangements
Research project P025 30/04/2014 Caroline Glendinning Completed 2014
Connecting People Intervention Study
Research project P028 30/04/2014 Martin Webber Completed 2014
People with learning disabilities from black and minority groups: An exploration of their experiences and views of services
Research project P029 30/04/2014 Completed 2014
Outcomes, processes and cost-effectiveness of Shared Lives
Research project P030 30/04/2014 Ann Netten Completed 2014
Relocation, portability and social care practice: investigating the barriers and solutions encountered by disabled people when moving across local authority areas for employment and education reasons
Research project P031 30/04/2014 Dave Marsland Completed 2014
Supporting people with learning disabilities who have offended to live safely in the community: negotiating policy and practice to promote social inclusion and rehabilitation
Research project P033 30/04/2014 Tony Holland Completed 2014
Overcoming barriers: unpaid care and employment in England (follow-on study)
Research project P035 30/04/2014 Linda Pickard Completed 2014
Preventing challenging behaviour of adults with complex needs in supported accommodation
Research project P037 30/04/2014 Peter McGill Completed 2014
E-inclusion and access to the "ICT-care sector" of older people in England
Research project P038 30/04/2014 Martin Knapp Completed 2014
Risk, safeguarding and personal budgets: exploring relationships and identifying good practice
Research project P041 30/04/2014 Martin Stevens Completed 2014
ASCOT and care home practice: exploring the feasibility of an outcomes-focused intervention study (AFIS)
Research project P042 30/04/2014 Ann-Marie Towers Completed 2014
Examining the economic case for social care interventions
Research project P043 30/04/2014 Martin Knapp Completed 2014
Models of safeguarding: a study exploring and comparing models of adult safeguarding
Research project P046 30/04/2014 Martin Stevens Completed 2014
Men living with long-term conditions: exploring gender and improving social care
Research project P048 30/04/2014 David Abbott Completed 2014
Rebuilding lives: supporting formerly homeless people to achieve independent living
Research project P049 30/04/2014 Maureen Crane Completed 2014
The economic consequences of community capacity-building projects
Research project P050 30/04/2014 Martin Knapp Completed 2014
Developing a care home quality indicator based on residents' social care related quality of life: adaptation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) from the individual to the home level in England
Research project P051 30/04/2014 Ann-Marie Towers Completed 2014
The changing role of occupational therapy services in social care: a scoping study
Research project P053 30/04/2014 David Challis Completed 2014
Care coordination: exploring and informing the emerging role of the non-statutory sector in long-term aged care in England
Research project P056 30/04/2014 David Challis Completed 2014
Optimising adult mental health service configurations across health and social care
Research project P057 30/04/2014 David Challis Completed 2014
Health and wellbeing consequences of social isolation in old age: a scoping study
Research project P059 30/04/2014 Martin Knapp Completed 2014
Applying discrete social experiments in social care research
Methods review M019 30/04/2014 Michela Tinelli Completed 2014
People who fund their own social care
Scoping review S011 30/04/2014 Caroline Glendinning Completed 2014
Risk, safety and safeguarding: understanding and application of concepts and implications for integrated care services
Scoping review S013 30/04/2014 Yvonne Birks Completed 2014
Commissioning for complexity: exploring the role of system dynamics in social care
Scoping review S016 30/04/2014 Robin Miller Completed 2014
Housing and adult social care
Scoping review S008 30/04/2014 Jeremy Porteus Completed 2014
Developing a care home quality indicator based on residents' social care related quality of life: Views of relatives and members of the public
Research project P052 30/04/2014 Ann-Marie Towers Completed 2014
A qualitative exploration of ethnic differences in satisfaction with support services amongst older people with long-term conditions and their carers
Research project P036 05/04/2014 Nan Greenwood Completed 2014
Resource allocation at the micro level in adult social care: determinants, methods and guidance
Research project P015 31/03/2014 David Challis Completed 2014
Improving employment opportunities for carers: identifying and sharing good practice
Research project P021 31/03/2014 Alice Sinclair Completed 2014
Developing best practice in social care and support for adults with concurrent sight loss and dementia within different housing settings
Research project P045 31/03/2014 Karen Croucher Completed 2014
Care home managers: A scoping review of evidence
Scoping review S009 31/03/2014 Completed 2014
Using ASCOT to improve care practice
Research project P042 31/03/2014 Ann-Marie Towers Completed 2014
To identify, and assess the effectiveness of social care's, contribution to the development of Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences and the protection of adults facing domestic violence
Research project P044 01/03/2014 Hugh McLaughlin Completed 2014
Liberty, equality, capacity: the impact of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards on social care practice and human rights
Research project P004 28/02/2014 Marcus Jepson Completed 2014
Data on adult social care
Scoping review S012 28/02/2014 Raphael Wittenberg Completed 2014
Acceptability of and satisfaction with social care among South Asian groups: a case study of Hampshire
Research project P024 31/01/2014 Rosalind Willis Completed 2014
ASSET: Adult Social Services Environments and Settings
Research project P034 31/01/2014 Simon Evans Completed 2014
Can family focused approaches contribute to the reablement of people with mental health difficulties
Research project P020 31/12/2013 Jerry Tew Completed 2013
Exploring satisfaction with personal social care services amongst Pakistani, Bangladeshi and White people
Research project P022 31/12/2013 Margaret Blake Completed 2013
Managing organisational change in social care: a review for practitioners and managers
Research project P047 31/12/2013 Tim Freeman Completed 2013
Factors that contribute to the levels of satisfaction with social care for physical disabilities amongst Chinese service users
Research project P027 01/12/2013 Fiona Irvine Completed 2013
Support planning in practice
Research project P014 31/10/2013 Val Williams Completed 2013
Indirect payments: direct payments for people who lack capacity
Research project P016 31/10/2013 Dan Robotham Completed 2013
Employment support for disabled people with the relationship between investment and outcomes (people getting paid work)
Research project P026 16/10/2013 Rob Greig Completed 2013
Personalisation and carers: the role of carers in assessment, support planning and managing personal budgets
Research project P012 30/09/2013 Caroline Glendinning Completed 2013
An exploration of service user and practitioner experiences of Community Treatment Orders
Research project P018 30/09/2013 Julia Stroud Completed 2013
Local evidence of prevention investments, outcomes and sustainability
Research project P017 31/08/2013 Jon Glasby Completed 2013
The impact of advocacy for people who use social care services
Scoping review S007 31/07/2013 Rob Greig Completed 2013
Recent survey evidence about unpaid carers: implications for social care practice in England
Research project P032 17/06/2013 Ann Netten Completed 2013
Practitioner research in social care: a review and recommendations
Methods review M018 31/05/2013 Ian Shaw Completed 2013
A longitudinal study of the service use and need of homeless women
Research project P013 30/04/2013 Emma Williamson Completed 2013
Personalisation of home care for older people using managed personal budgets
Research project P011 28/02/2013 Caroline Glendinning Completed 2013
Complex and severe needs
Research project P001 30/12/2012 Caroline Glendinning Completed 2012
Social care interventions that promote social participation and well-being: a mixed methods study
Research project P003 30/11/2012 Martin Webber Completed 2012
Costs and outcomes of skilled support for adults with complex needs in supported accommodation
Research project P009 30/09/2012 Jim Mansell Completed 2012
MRC guidance on developing and evaluating complex interventions: Application to research on palliative and end of life care
Methods review M015 30/09/2012 Catherine Evans Completed 2012
User-controlled research
Scoping review S005 30/09/2012 Peter Beresford Completed 2012
Safeguarding and best practice in services for adults with learning disabilities
Research project P008 31/08/2012 Rachel Fyson Completed 2012
Modelling social care complexity: the potential of System Dynamics
Methods review M014 31/07/2012 Douglas McKelvie Completed 2012
New conversations between old players? The relationship between general practice and social care in an era of clinical commissioning
Scoping review S006 31/07/2012 Jon Glasby Completed 2012
Estimating future demand for social care for younger disabled adults
Research project P005 31/05/2012 Eric Emerson Completed 2012
Social care practice with carers: What social care support is provided to family carers? What support do family carers want?
Research project P006 31/03/2012 Jill Manthorpe Completed 2012
Overcoming barriers: unpaid care and employment in England
Research project P010 31/12/2011 Linda Pickard Completed 2011
The role of the third sector in delivering social care
Scoping review S002 22/12/2011 Completed 2011
The economic value of community capacity building
Scoping review S004 31/08/2011 Completed 2011
Economic evidence around employment support
Scoping review S003 08/08/2011 Rob Greig Completed 2011
Individualisation of services — a scoping study
Research project P002 31/07/2011 Ann Netten Completed 2011
Mathematical modelling and its application to social care
Methods review M007 30/11/2010 Hazel Squires Completed 2010
Structured observational research in services for people with learning disabilities
Methods review M010 31/07/2010 Jim Mansell Completed 2010
Carrying out research about adult social care services for visually impaired people
Methods review M003 31/07/2010 Nigel Charles Completed 2010
Research with d/Deaf people
Methods review M009 30/06/2010 Alys Young Completed 2010
Qualitative methods overview
Methods review M001 31/05/2010 Jo Moriaty Completed 2010
Research with Black and Ethnic Minority people using social services
Methods review M011 31/05/2010 Gary Craig Completed 2010
Overview of outcome measurement for adults using social care services and support
Methods review M006 31/05/2010 Ann Netten Completed 2010
End of life care research methods
Methods review M012 30/04/2010 Claire Goodman Completed 2010
Care homes
Methods review M008 30/04/2010 Julienne Meyer Completed 2010
Prevention and social care for adults with learning disabilities
Scoping review SR001 31/03/2010 Eric Emerson Completed 2011
Systematic reviews in social care and social work research
Methods review M013 28/02/2010 Deborah Rutter Completed 2010
LGBT sexualities in social care research
Methods review M002 28/02/2010 Elizabeth Price Completed 2010
The use of ‘large scale datasets’ in UK social care research
Methods review M005 28/02/2010 Shereen Hussein Completed 2010
Research governance and ethics for adult social care research: procedures, practices and challenges
Methods review M004 30/04/2009 John Woolham Completed 2009
Randomisation and chance-based designs in social care research
Methods review M017 31/03/2009 Bob Woods Completed 2009

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