Social care is vital for preserving independence, enhancing the quality of life, wellbeing, and end of life care, but it remains under-supported by evidence and the infrastructure to produce and implement that evidence. Building an affordable, high-quality, and sustainable adult social care system that meets people’s needs requires a strong evidence base to understand what works best, for whom and when.
At the School for Social Care Research, we are committed to providing practitioners and researchers with the necessary tools to build a long-term career in social care research, and to strengthen this evidence base. We provide range of training and funding opportunities at a range of career level, underpinned by a programme of training, events and a supportive environment fostered across our diverse cohort of early, mid and senior-career social care researchers.
You can read more about our full programme of work in our career development business plan.
Our Aims
In no priority order, the aims of the SSCR Research Career Development Programme are to:
- Promote and demonstrate excellence in research capacity development and training,
- Develop a culture of capacity development in all aspects of SSCR activity,
- Encourage and facilitate the retention of researchers in social care research,
- Provide career opportunities through our multiple schemes to complement or explicitly link to the NIHR Academy Programmes,
- Provide bespoke training events, meetings, resources, and materials that meet the development needs of trainees, fellows and researchers,
- Attract and develop a diverse cohort of early, mid, and senior social care researchers with the skills and experience to develop and lead social care research in academic and practice settings,
- Promote wider development opportunities within NIHR Academy for capacity-building across the adult social care research and practice communities,
- Work with other NIHR initiatives with specific social care capacity building remits (Incubators, HSDR Partnerships, ARCs),
- Work collaboratively to share best practice in academic research capacity development and training within and beyond NIHR.
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