Career Development Awardee
I am a researcher with experience investigating strength based approaches to social care and social work, community/neighbourhood care support, and dementia socio-legal research. I completed my PhD in law at the university of Birmingham in 2022, and have since worked on NIHR funded research national evaluating a strength based approaches program to social work and social care. I use mostly qualitative methods and am interested in using linguistic methods for practical outcomes.
Chloe’s research interests include:
- Intersections between deathcare and social care
- The role of the VCSFO sector in social health and care support
- Mobilising grief and death literacy in society
- Intersectionality in these spaces, particularly LGBTQIA+ experiences.
Read more about Chloe’s Career Development Award plans
Community social care supports for the recently bereaved, partnership building and training grant
I am an early-career researcher interested in community-based social care support. During my PhD, I spoke to people with dementia and their carers about what they wanted the end of their lives to look like. This led to my interest in how deathcare and social care overlap. Deathcare is the care of a dying person and their carers. It includes the administrative, governance and cultural needs of death.
Award objectives:
- Develop my leadership and co-production skills
- Build networks in Birmingham with organisations that provide care support when someone dies.
- Submit a research proposal co-produced with my new networks.
During the award, I will:
- Look at what deathcare processes and support exist in Birmingham, and how professionals and people use the support.
- Speak to organisations involved to discuss what research might be needed, what will be helpful for people working in these settings, and for people being helped.
- Work with Birmingham Voluntary Service Council in their research unit, and connect with community partners
- Speak to people who have lived experience to ensure their voices are heard, and plan an event to share their views and experiences with practitioners.
I aim to include different voices, specifically, LGBTQIA+ community members, and people who are refugees or seeking asylum. I will make a short magazine to share with organisations and create interest in the topic. This will be translated into other languages spoken in Birmingham. Finally, I will work with groups to secure funding for research.
