What research means for frontline social workers
Dr Jenny Harlock tells us how research can help social care professionals build their careers and why she has signed up to be a Link and Learn mentor
- Published: 11 November 2022
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Forging the pathway towards impactful, inclusive and integrated research in social care
How social care practitioners can play an active role in NIHR research funded to help improve social care services.
- Published: 04 November 2022
Why we must weave health and care research ‘into the fabric’ of nursing homes
Professor Catherine Walshe, Co-Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University, explains how delivering research in care homes is becoming increasingly important with an ageing population.
- Published: 28 September 2022
Bridging the gap between research and practice in social work
What are the top 10 priorities for Social Work Research and the opportunities for the sector to engage and make the most of research?
- Published: 03 August 2022
A vision for multi-disciplinary housing and care research for people and communities
Glen Garrod, Executive Director of Adult Care and Community Wellbeing at Lincolnshire County Council and former president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), writes about how a new vision for housing and social care research can enable people to transform their care and health, and be more independent.
- Published: 14 September 2021
Public involvement and social care research - a new dawn
Zoe Gray, Associate Director of Involvement, Participation and Engagement, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (CED); and Tina Coldham, Public Adviser to NIHR CED urge researchers, research commissioners and managers to play a part in improving public involvement in social care research. It follows publication of an NIHR report highlighting recommendations in this area.
- Published: 05 July 2021
Achieving closure - What happens to older people and staff when care homes close?
A care home for older people may close for a number of reasons, with different approaches taken across the country. Prof Jon Glasby writes about how his new programme of research will help to understand the national picture and develop good practice to ensure that closures are managed as well as possible, and potential negative impacts for residents and staff reduced.
- Published: 11 March 2021
Partnering for powerful change in children and young people’s mental health research
Louise Jones, Director of Programmes at What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC), explains how WWCSC are teaming up with the NIHR to fund research into children and young people’s mental health.
- Published: 10 February 2021
How social care can be the support that enables people to lead fulfilling daily lives
Mark Wilberforce is a social care researcher in the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York and NIHR School for Social Care Research. Here he writes about how he got involved in social care research and offers some advice to other social care researchers.
- Published: 02 February 2021
Taking a non-traditional route into social care research
Stacey Rand is a social care researcher at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. Here she talks about her route into the field and how NIHR’s Research for Social Care call has supported her work.
- Published: 30 September 2020
Launching the NIHR's annual Research for Social Care call
Following the success of the first RfPB social care call, we recently announced that the NIHR will be continuing to invest in social care research via the Research for Social Care (RfSC) call.
- Published: 25 September 2019