The NIHR Research for Social Care (RfSC) call is an annual competition specifically for social care proposals, run by NIHR's Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme.
The aim of the annual RfSC call is to fund topics and research methodologies that increase the effectiveness of social care services, provide value for money and benefit service users and carers.
This document shows membership of the funding committee for RfSC.
Research for Social Care Funding Committee Members
| Name | Position | Organisation | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Chris Hatton (Deputy Chair) | Professor of Social Care | Manchester Metropolitan University | Policy relevant research involving people with learning disabilities |
| Dr Kate Baxter | Senior Research Fellow | University of York | Qualitative research methods, social care for adults and older people, home care, personal budgets, self-funders |
| Professor Katie Brittain | Professor of Applied Health Research & Ageing, Population Health Sciences Institute | Newcastle University | Social care of older adults, ageing and age-related illnesses, parkinson's, dementia, end of life care, applied health research |
| Dr Jenni Brooks | Senior Lecturer in Sociology | Sheffield Hallam University | Qualitative researcher and academic in social policy and sociology, with a particular focus on dementia, disability and the personalisation of social care |
| Dr Sue Caton | Research Fellow | Manchester Metropolitan University | Learning disability research, qualitative research |
| Mr Duncan Cook | PhD candidate, Statistics and Public Policy | University of Cambridge | Use of evidence in government decision-making; official statistics; local government finance; community support for carers |
| Dr Robbie Duschinsky | Senior University Lecturer in Social Sciences | University of Cambridge | Qualitative methods; public health; child social and emotional development; communication in clinical and professional contexts; theories of human behaviour; integration of health and social care. |
| Dr Shirley Evans | Interim Director of the Association for Dementia Studies | University of Worcester | Dementia studies, community-based interventions, adult social care |
| Professor Lee-Ann Fenge | Professor of Social Care, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences | Bournemouth University | social care, seldom heard groups (LGBT+ people, unhoused people, young people), social work/social care practice, safeguarding and vulnerable groups (older people), financial scams, mental capacity |
| Mr Glen Garrod | Executive Director of Adult Care and Community Wellbeing | Lincolnshire County Council | Expertise in the field of social policy, strategic social care commissioning and the operation of social care services |
| Dr Luke Geoghegan | Head of Policy and Research | British Association of Social Workers (BASW) | social work practice, social policy in the UK, social work with children and families, looked after children, residential care, fostering and adoption |
| Professor Claire Hulme | Professor in Health Economics and Director | Institute of Health Research, University of Exeter | Health Economics, economic evaluation alongside clinical trials; economic evaluation of community programmes spanning the health and social services |
| Dr Deborah James | Professor Educational Psychology | Manchester Metropolitan University | Applied Research with and for children and families, workers and workforces in public sector systems and services. |
| Mr Francis James | Public Member | - | Lived experience as a carer for family members |
| Professor Frank Keating | Professor in Social Work and Mental Health | Royal Holloway University of London | His research interests are ethnicity, gender, ageing and mental health |
| Dr Anne Killett | Lecturer in Occupational Therapy | University of East Anglia | Participatory research, qualitative research, care organisation for older people, research with marginalised groups, multi-agency working, child and adolescent mental health |
| Dr Brynmor Lloyd-Evans | Associate Professor In the Division of Psychiatry | University College London | Social care, mental health, psychosis, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, mixed methods health services research, complex interventions, development of measures, large scale service evaluation, qualitative research, clinical trials |
| Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic | Senior Lecturer in Social Care | University of Sussex | Co-production, Social Work and Social Care, Participatory Methodologies, Qualitative Research, Mental Health |
| Dr Juliette Malley | Assistant Professorial Research Fellow | Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science | Adult social care, especially quality, innovation and commissioning; user experience; quality of life and outcomes measurement; survey research |
| Professor Jill Manthorpe | Professor of Social Work and Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit on Health & Social Care Workforce | King's College London | Associate Director NIHR School for Social Care Research within The Policy Institute at King's College London, She is also Social Care theme lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaborative South London. She served as Chair of the NIHR Policy Research Programme Panel (2013-20) and has been a grant panel member for the Alzheimer's Society, Dunhill Medical Trust and Stroke Association |
| Mrs Karen McCormick | Founder | InCharge Ltd | Lived Experience Engagement Lead at IMPACT; Parent/Carer of young adult with intellectual disability managing a personal budget; Lived experience innovator & founder (tech enabling care) |
| Dr Ruth McGovern | Senior Lecturer in Public Health Research | Newcastle University | Research focuses upon the development and evaluation of interventions in social care and other non-NHS settings to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children and families |
| Ms Caroline Norrie | Research Fellow, Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit | King's College London | Qualitative methods, care homes, older people and gambling-related harms. |
| Professor Tessa Parkes | Professor of Substance Use and Inclusion Health | University of Stirling | Substance use. Mental health. Homelessness/housing. Social inequalities. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Ensuring participation of people with lived experience. Qualitative. Social care. Public health |
| Ms Bridget Penhale | Reader Emerita, Mental Health of Older People | University of East Anglia | Elder Abuse/Neglect; Adult Safeguarding; Domestic and Intimate Partner violence; Mental Health and Older People, Ethics and Social Care; Gerontology |
| Mr Nanik Pursani | Public Member | - | Professional background in education across all sectors & inspection based work; Experience of reviewing NIHR applications across Programmes, including including the Policy Research programme |
| Dr Stacey Rand | Senior Research Fellow | University of Kent | Adult social care, quality of life and outcome measurement, family carers. Methodological expertise in psychometrics, survey research, qualitative interviews. |
| Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole | Professor of Education | The School of Education, The University of Sheffield | Qualitative and participatory research methods; social care for children, young people and adults with learning disabilities; parent-carer. |
| Professor Sara Ryan | Professor in Social Care, Department of Social Care and Social Work | Manchester Metropolitan University | Qualitative research methods, public involvement, learning disabilities, autism and regulatory processes. |
| Professor Claire Surr | Director of the Centre for Dementia Research | Leeds Beckett University | Dementia, care homes, randomised controlled trials, intervention development and evaluation, workforce education and training, qualitative methods |
| Mrs Ann-Marie Towers | Reader in Social Care, Centre for Health Service Studies (CHSS) | University of Kent | Adult Social Care, with a specific interest in quality of life and outcome measurement (ASCOT), care homes, dementia, care quality and care planning |
| Ms Helen Weatherly | Reader in Health Economics | University of York | Economic evaluation of health and social care interventions |
| Dr Philip Whitehead | Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy | Northumbria University | Occupational therapist with a background in social care research and practice, developing and evaluating community based rehabilitation interventions, methodological expertise in systematic reviewing, qualitative interview studies and particularly Randomised Controlled Trials |
| Dr Mark Wilberforce | Senior Research Fellow in Social Care | University of York | Social care and social work research in adult community services, including mental health and older people. Methodological interest in measurement and psychometrics |
| Dr Paul Willis | Senior Lecturer in Social Work with Adults | University of Bristol | Social care researcher with research expertise in older men's experiences of loneliness and social isolation; sexuality, care and ageing; trans ageing and gender identity |
| Dr Ly-Mee Yu | Lead Trial Statistician, University of Oxford; Research Advisor, Research DesignService for the South Central region | University of Oxford | Randomised clinical trials, epidemiology and medical statistics
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