GAH
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
15 doctoral studentships available focusing on dementia-related practice
GAH
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
New projects to support research impact, involvement and capacity-building
GAH
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
‘What’s your 10 minutes of Britney Spears?’ The key to a flourishing life
GAH
Monday, September 11th, 2023
When design researchers and academic researchers meet: three challenges of interdisciplinary research
GAH
Sunday, May 21st, 2023
Developing a resource to support localities address user and family understanding of, and engagement with, reablement: a development and implementation study
GAH
Sunday, May 21st, 2023
Economic evaluation to inform social care decision making
An individual fellowship focused on generating demand for economic evaluation in adult social care.
GAH
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
Implementing and evaluating national guidance in adult social care: challenges and opportunities
GAH
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
Four social care professionals appointed as NIHR SSCR Practice-Based Research Leaders
GAH
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
The wider impact of care: (how) do community-based social care services support older carers?
GAH
Monday, December 12th, 2022
NIHR SSCR Associate Director listed in Top 100 global contributors to social work research
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
The role of social network analysis in identifying unmet support needs for families supporting an adult with a learning disability within family homes
An in-depth exploration of support available to parent-carers will be undertaken by creating visual maps of support.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Developing a Social Care Strengths and Vulnerability Index (SC-SVI) for older people: a Proof-of-Concept study in local authorities
This project aims to discover if data routinely held by local authority social care organisations could be used to help identify older people’s needs and potentially judge future threats to their well-being.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Councillors and Care: Understanding and enhancing the role of councillors in shaping adult social care practice
This project focuses on the role of councillors in shaping adult social care practice – by which we mean the support that is given to people who have (or may soon have) need for social care services.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
The role of paid companions in remote consultations for people with learning disabilities
This project will work with people with learning disabilities, social care staff and healthcare professionals to record and analyse 30 remote healthcare consultations involving a person with learning disabilities being supported by a paid companion.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Personas for innovating in adult social care
The aim is to develop personas that will be acceptable and useful to stakeholders involved in developing, implementing and seeking to sustain ASC innovations or supporting this process.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Community resources impacting quality of residential care for older people
This study will identify the most important issues around the topic of the relationship between residential care facilities for older people and communities in which they are located, and provide basis for a follow on study.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Catalogues of Social Care Measures
The purpose of this project is to make it easier for researchers and others to identify where there already exist data on social care measures.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
The role of adult social care for parents with learning disabilities when a child is no longer in their care
This project will look at the support that is or is not available from adult social care and from other agencies for parents with learning disabilities when their children are removed, as well as the cost to society of not providing support.
GAH
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
How do adult and learning disability social workers engage with parents with learning disabilities?
GAH
Monday, November 7th, 2022
“When the money runs out”: capital depletion and transition out of self-funded care
Little is known about people’s experience of asking for support, or what happens when there is a change from self-funding to council support. This research will involve speaking to the different groups involved to fill this knowledge gap.
GAH
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Lower level social care needs in prison: Constructing a theory of change
Working together with a group of people with different expertise, the information from this study will then be used to design a model of care to meet social care needs in prison.
GAH
Monday, November 7th, 2022
What are the costs and consequences of implementing NICE adult social care guidelines from a local systems perspective?
GAH
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Decluttering the homes of people with hoarding behaviours: Local authority commissioning, professional practices, and user experiences
GAH
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Conceptualising the relationship between mental health and social care in England
Aims to develop a framework for conceptualising mental health social care practice and research, map recent and ongoing relevant research activities to this framework, and identify important research questions and priorities in this area.
GAH
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Exploring the significance of home-delivered meals among clients of the Meals on Wheels service: a qualitative study
This scoping work is to carry out a qualitative research study in order to evaluate the feasibility of a Meals on Wheels intervention in improving physical, mental and social wellbeing in clients of the service.
GAH
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Care and Place (CAPE): the links between housing characteristics and condition and older people’s care needs, care use and care costs
This study will look at how housing characteristics are linked to people’s social care needs, use of care services, and care received from family and friends.
GAH
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Understanding social care assessments of older LGBTQ+ people
These case studies will take an in-depth look at the ways that people doing assessments consider issues of sexuality and gender identity.
GAH
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
The contribution of social workers to older people’s well-being
This project will examine what difference social workers make to older people and carers’ lives and how they do this. It will capture the knowledge, tasks, skills, values and contribution of this important area of social care.
GAH
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
Apply to join the NIHR RDS social care grant development and writing retreat
GAH
Monday, October 3rd, 2022
NIHR Three Schools Webinar: Diversity and involvement series, webinar 3
GAH
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
SSCR Associate Director awarded CBE for contributions to social care research
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Friday, April 22nd, 2022
SSCR Conference 2022 | 14:00 – 15:15 Parallel Session 4 Focus on care and support
GAH
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
SSCR Conference 2022 | 14:00 – 15:15 Parallel Session 3 Focus on carers
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Friday, April 22nd, 2022
SSCR Conference 2022 | 14:00 – 15:15 Parallel Session 2 Focus on mental health