We are delighted to announce the new Post-Doc Fellows for the SSCR and The Dementia Programmes.
The NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) is dedicated to developing the evidence base for adult social care practice in England. Our mission is to fund and support high-quality research that improves the wellbeing, independence, dignity, and quality of life of people who use care services, unpaid carers, families, and communities. SSCR also aims to build capacity in social care research, supporting early-career researchers and strengthening links between research, policy, and practice.
The SSCR awards Fellowships to support Post-Doctoral Researchers committed to developing independent careers in social care research. These Fellowships will enable applicants to establish collaborations, undertake independent research, publish findings, develop new methodological skills, and prepare for future funding opportunities.
The new Post-Doc Fellows are as follows.
SSCR Post-Doc Fellows
- Nakita Singh: Pathways, Provision and Inequality: Learning Disability, Ethnicity and Adult Social Care in England
- Caroline Webb: Automated Care: Examining the Impact of AI-Driven Tools on People Who Draw on Care and Support
- George Peat: What makes partnerships work? From co-produced solutions to a transferable theory of change for Disabled People’s Organisations–Local Authority collaboration in adult social care
- Tom Ryan: “We can work things out together”: Improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities during transitions in adulthood
- Louis Stokes: Co-designing and piloting a trauma-informed intervention to support care home staff experiencing grief and psychological distress
Dementia Programme Post-Doc Fellows:
- Aysegul Humeyra Kafadar: ADAPT CARE: Artificial intelligence in Dementia home care: Acceptability, Personalisation, and Trust in ai-supported CARE planning
- Jessica Budgett: Strengthening home care workers’ role in post-diagnostic dementia support: understanding care planning, goal-setting, and outcomes in practice
- Yolanda Lau: Cancer outcomes, care pathways, and health inequalities in people living with dementia
- Chiara De Poli: Qualitative, Longitudinal and LLM-Assisted Dementia Care Research (QuaLL)
- Esther Loseto-Gerritzen: Examining Digital Inequalities in Dementia: A Longitudinal Multi-Cohort Study
All fellows will receive a dedicated webpage to enable others to stay up to date with their research. Check back in soon to learn more about their work.
