The purpose of sharing this information is to facilitate possible research collaborations within and outside of the Wessex region. Below you can find contact details and research interests/experience of UK-based social care researchers/practitioners.
Social Care Research Directory
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| First name | Surname | Job title | Institution | Research interests/practice | Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zarah | Abdullahi | Lecturer | University of Suffolk | z.abdullahi@uos.ac.uk | Nurse / Biomedical scientist. Specialisation in Neurosciences and Oncology (particularly in supporting early cancers from surveillance to therapeutics interventions) with a strong translational Clinical research background. Research interest: How end of life assessments are undertaken in critical care units, using methodologies ground in Health Care Design principles. | Nurse / Neuroscience / Oncology / End of life |
| Leire | Ambrosio | Research Fellow - Long term conditions | University of Southampton | lag1v19@soton.ac.uk | Parkinson's / Long-term conditions | Parkinson's / Long-term conditions |
| Wayne | Arnett | Senior Lecturer Adult Nursing | University of Winchester | wayne.arnett@winchester.ac.uk | Orthopaedics / Trauma / Spinal Injuries | Orthopaedics / Trauma / Spinal Injuries |
| Anna | Badley | Research Nurse | Solent NHS Trust | anna.badley@solent.nhs.uk | Research nurse for adults in Southampton. I am currently, working on a large national study looking into falls in care homes and about to start a large study exploring the genetic markers of people who have had a stroke to aid prevention, diagnosis and recovery. | Falls / Care Homes / Stroke |
| Daniel | Bedford | Senior Lecturer in Law | University of Portsmouth | daniel.bedford@port.ac.uk | Human dignity / Vulnerability / Ageing | Human dignity / Vulnerability / Ageing |
| Louise | Blakley | Senior social work practitioner | Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust | louise.blakley@southernhealth.nhs.uk | Mental Health / Research Ethics | Mental Health / Research Ethics |
| Cindy | Brooks | Research Fellow | University of Southampton | c.f.brooks@soton.ac.uk | Creating and evaluating online innovative tools to improve health and wellbeing in society / Exploring interventions to reduce inappropriate polypharmacy / Methods enabling successful development and implementation of innovations in practice | Health / wellbeing / quality of life |
| Sarah | Brown | NIHR ARC OxTV Programme and Implementation Manager | University of Oxford | sarah.brown@phc.ox.ac.uk | In my role as Programme and Implementation Manager, I focus on the implementation of ARC research outputs into the health and care system. I work closely with the Oxford AHSN to enable this to happen (where appropriate). My work involves working collaboratively across the South East region and ensuring I’m aware of current regional priorities, considering how our current and future work fits to these. I’m therefore particualry interested in the changes to the ICS structure, the development of the ICS health and care partnerships and how these will work going forward. | Implementation / Health & care system / ICSs |
| Karen | Buckwell-Nutt | Director for Institute of Health and Social Care | Bucks New University | karen.buckwell-nutt@bucks.ac.uk | Vascular Care / Developing the healthcare workforce | Nurse / Leadership |
| Caitlin | Burchett | Research Nurse | Solent NHS Trust | caitlin.burchett@solent.nhs.uk | I’m a Mental Health Nurse currently working a split role in clinical practice and research delivery. My clinical role is as a staff nurse on an Older Persons Mental Health (OPMH) inpatient ward, offering assessment and treatment for older people with dementia and/or functional mental health diagnoses (e.g. depression, schizophrenia). My Research Nurse role involves collaborating with study teams, clinical teams within our Trust, and community partners such as care homes, and carer support groups, to set up and deliver OPMH studies (most of which are on the NIHR portfolio). I am particularly interested in dementia research which is focused on understanding and improving the well-being of people living with dementia and their families and carers, particularly through non-pharmacological interventions. | Dementia / Older people / Mental Health / Carer support |
| Paul | Campbell | Senior Research Associate | Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | Paul.Campbell2@mpft.nhs.uk | I am currently a Senior Research Associate within the department for Research and Innovation (R&I) at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT), as well as a honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Medicine at Keele University. My role at MPFT is to encourage clinicians and practitioners to engage with research. One specific role is my support to social care and social work at MPFT, the trust having strong working links with it’s Local Authority. My aims are to enable socialcare/social worker staff to engage with research and to actively embark on research career routes via the support of the R&I and related research structures. We are currently running a funded (Innovation funding from local CRN) study (Social Care Research Engagment: SCREEN) at MPFT to embed a research culture within social care. As a result of SCREEN we have created a research special interest group with membership including social care/work practitioners and social care academics and we are interested in reaching out to those with shared interests. | Research / Mental Health / Primary Care / Social Care / Social Work |
| Joanne | Carter | Primary Care Research Facilitator | Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust | Joanne.carter@nihr.ac.uk | ||
| Lesley-Ann | Castle | Research Nurse | CRN Wessex | lesley-ann.castle@nihr.ac.uk | ||
| Charlene | Chewings | Registered Care Manager | Bluebird Care South Oxfordshire | charlenechewings@bluebirdcare.co.uk | Independence / Ageing / Care | |
| Sue | Chilton | Senior Lecturer | Oxford Brookes University | suechilton9@gmail.com | ||
| Wendy | Clyne | Consultants lead | RDS SW | wendy.clyne@plymouth.ac.uk | eHealth / Psychology Health services / Appreciative inquiry | Psychology |
| Amanda | Colston | Community Research Delivery Lead | Oxford Health NHS FT | amanda.colston@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk | ||
| Julie | Cooke | Lecturer and PhD student | Oxford Brookes University | p0041831@brookes.ac.uk | Lecturer in pre-registration adult nursing at Oxford Brookes University. Also a PhD student at the Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery. My PhD study title is currently: "Exploring the future workforce: An interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of nurse educators’ experiences of preparing and support nursing students for placements in nursing homes." The study uses as phemonenologial approach to identify 8 nurse educators’ current experiences, in order to highlight what works and what doesn’t work for the participants, in order to find commonalities across cases and draw recommendations for future practice. | Older People / Education / Nursing homes / Nurse educator / Clinical Placements |
| Silvie | Cooper | Lecturer (Teaching) | UCL/NIHR ARC North Thames | silvie.cooper@ucl.ac.uk | Management of chronic pain / Digital health and patient education / Using qualitative, mixed methods, and translational research approaches | Pain management / Digital health education |
| Harriet | Curzon-Hope | Teaching Fellow | University of Portsmouth | harriet.curzon-hope@port.ac.uk | ||
| Mary | Daly | Professor of social policy | University of Oxford | mary.daly@spi.ox.ac.uk | Analysis of social policy in OECD countries, with a particular interest in family, gender, care/social care and poverty | Sociology / Social Policy |
| Danielle | Dunnett | Clinical Research Assitant | Oxford NHS | danielle.dunnett@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk | ||
| Lisa | Farley | Course Lead - BN (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) | University of Portsmouth | lisa.farley@port.ac.uk | Interventions for harm reduction with substance misusing adolescents / Suicidal behaviour and self harm / Substance Misuse, / Mental Health and emotional wellbeing - adult, child and adolescent / Public Health and early intervention | Mental health / Care delivery / Nurse education / Self-harm |
| Lee-Ann | Fenge | Professor of Social Care | Bournemouth University | lfenge@bournemouth.ac.uk | Participatory arts-based projects with older LGBT citizens, young people with disabilities, and homeless people / Exploring the impact of financial scams on vulnerable groups | Arts-based projects / Vulnerability |
| Ray | Fitzpatrick | Professor of Public Health | University of Oxford | raymond.fitzpatrick@nuffield.ox.ac.uk | ||
| Margaret | Fox | Project Manager - Evidence and Impact | Skills for Care | margaret.fox@skillsforcare.org.uk | ||
| Heather | Gilpin | Primary Care Portfolio Manager (TVSM) | NHS | heather.gilpin@nihr.ac.uk | ||
| Jenny | Harlock | Senior Research Fellow | RDS West Midlands | jenny.harlock@warwick.ac.uk | Health and social care services / Health and care in the community, including services provided by the voluntary sector / Social prescribing / Public involvement in decommissioning decisions | Care services / Community / Social prescribing |
| Rachel | Harrison | Senior lecturer | University of Winchester | Rachel.Harrison@winchester.ac.uk | Currently undertaking a PhD in Intellectual Disabilities / Researching the impacts of austerity on the social networks of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities/ Research on the ways in which the NHS and universities can work together more effectively for better outcomes | Health, Community, Social Care, Social Justice, Disability |
| Annie | Hawton | RDS SW Deputy Director | RDS SW | a.hawton@exeter.ac.uk | How different methods can be used together in complementary and informative ways / Health outcomes of people with Multiple Sclerosis which are suitable for use in economic evaluations of treatments for MS. | Methods / Multiple Sclerosis |
| Catherine | Henshall | Reader | Oxford Brookes University | chenshall@brookes.ac.uk | Nursing research and workforce development Cancer survivorship and self-management Mental health and resilience | Clinical academic nurse / Clinical research / Nursing research leadership |
| Michelle | Heward | Post doctoral research fellow | Bournemouth University | mheward@bournemouth.ac.uk | Care and support in later life | Later life |
| Mel | Hughes | Principal Academic in social work | Bournemouth University | mhughes@bournemouth.ac.uk | Parental substance use / User involvement in professional health and social work programmes | Carers / Social work |
| Jon | Hyslop | Senior Lecturer in Social Work | Oxford Brookes University | jhyslop@brookes.ac.uk | How peer networks support personal budget users / Mental health / Drug and alcohol work, youth work, offending and housing/homelessness) / Policy strands that underpin developments in these fields | Mental health |
| Lisa | Irvine | Senior Research Fellow | University of Hertfordshire | l.irvine@herts.ac.uk | Economic evaluation of randomised controlled trials / Repurposing trial data & reducing research waste / Care homes research | Trial data / Care homes |
| Andrea | Jarman | Research Nurse | CRN Wessex | andrea.jarman@nihr.ac.uk | ||
| Alexandra | Jones | Research delivery manager | CRN Wessex | alex.jones@nihr.ac.uk | ||
| Joanne | Jordan | Research Fellow | The Open University | joanne.jordan@open.ac.uk | ||
| Olga | Kozlowska | Research Fellow | Oxford Brookes University | okozlowska@brookes.ac.uk | The interface of physical and mental health / Focusing on diabetes and mental health and how to improve care for people with these conditions | Physical health / Mental health / Diabetes |
| Kellyn | Lee | Research Fellow | University of Southampton | kellynleefarrar19@outlook.com | Material Citizenship / Industry partnerships / Enterprise Social care workforce / Community initiatives to support informal carers / Policy and practice change | Workforce / Policy / Industry / Enterprise |
| Tilia | Lenz | Senior Lecturer | Bournemouth University | lenzt@bournemouth.ac.uk | Social Work / Continuous Professional Development | Social Work / Continuous Professional Development |
| Stephen | Lim | Academic Clinical Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine | University of Southampton | s.e.lim@soton.ac.uk | Sedentary behaviour in hospital among older people / Training hospital volunteers to encourage older inpatients to be physically active / Community-based physical activity interventions for older adults to improve activity levels and functional status / Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty in older people | Frailty / Older people / Physical health |
| Rip | Mason | President-non-profit | Because of Love Outreach Inc. | Rmm2sr@gmail.com | ||
| Emma | Maynard | Senior Lecturer | University of Portsmouth | emma.maynard@port.ac.uk | Social complexity and health / Change and transformation in complex families (Family Stories Project) / Researching with children and young people / Mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and families | Families / Mental health |
| Emma | McLoughlin | Research Physiotherapist | Solent NHS Trust | emma.mcloughlin@solent.nhs.uk | Musculoskeletal studies | Musculoskeletal |
| Samantha | Meredith | Research Fellow | University of Southampton | s.j.meredith@soton.ac.uk | Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of virtual group exercise for older adults delivered by trained volunteers | Exercise / Older adults |
| Cathy | Murphy | Senior Reseach Fellow | University of Southampton | c.murphy@soton.ac.uk | Continence management / Dementia and incontinence / Continence devices / Continence at the end of life / Urinary catheters | Dementia / Continence |
| Michelle | Myall | Senior Research and Implementation Fellow | University of Southampton/NIHR ARC Wessex | m.myall@soton.ac.uk | My current research interests include: death and dying; decision-making at end of life; life-limiting conditions, gender and health and domestic violence and abuse. My research also focuses on developing complex interventions and identifying and explaining the factors and processes that lead to successful implementation and sustainability. I have currently lead three research projects : 1) DALLI – domestic abuse and life-limiting illness study to develop an intervention to enable hospice and palliative care services to identify and manage domestic abuse for patients with a life-limiting condition; 2) WEBRES – a study to develop a web based resource to develop an intervention to support people bereaved during the COVID pandemic; 3) CLECC – Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care – an implementation and evaluation study to understand the conditions needed to implement the CLECC intervention in mental health settings. I am co-app on a study to investigate the potential and practice for eye donation in palliative care settings; an evaluation of Independent Domestic Violence Advocates in health care settings. I am also working towards an ESRC funding application to explore how earlier life experiences influence inequalities in later life for people with autism and develop an intervention to improve their inclusiveity in older age. | Death and dying / End of life care / Domestic abuse / Life-limiting illness / Implementation |
| Rachel | Naylor | Lecturer in Social Work | University of Keele | r.naylor@keele.ac.uk | Social work, with particular reference to domestic violence and to migration and identity. | Domestic violence / Migration / Identity |
| Karen | Nixon | Midlands Partnership NHS Trust | karen.nixon@mpft.nhs.uk | |||
| Karl | Nunkoosing | Principal Lecturer | University of Portsmouth | karl.nunkoosing@port.ac.uk | Social Construction of Learning Disability / Referrals to Community Learnin Disability Teams / Critical Disability Studies / Learning Disabilites and Intersectionalities / Gender | Social Construction / Qualitative Methods / Discourse Analysis / Challenging Behaviour |
| Fausat Omoshalewa | Oladipupo | Occupational Therapist (Msc Student) | fauzyranti@gmail.com | |||
| Kris | Owden | Managing Director | Caremark (Aylesbury & Wycombe) | Kris.Owden@caremark.co.uk | I am currently the managing director of Caremark (Aylesbury and Wycombe) which promotes independence through active and dynamic homecare. I am also a practicing psychiatrist. I am interested in further research in Adult and Children’s social care, integrated care systems including integrated care pathways, communication and information sharing to deliver high quality ‘joined up’ care, the way care is delivered, technology and homecare, carer satisfaction, carer career development, complex care, neurological care, dementia care, mental health care, social care staff development, client satisfaction, quality assurance and clinical governance. I am also interested in social care audits such as medication compliance, care time, travel times | Social Care / Integrated care systems |
| Izabela | Paluszkiewicz | Managing Direction | Henley Care Ltd | izabela@henleycare.co.uk | ||
| Julie | Parkes | Prof Public Health | University of Southampton | jules@soton.ac.uk | ||
| Daniel | Phelps | Researcher & Consultant | YoungCarers.info | daniel@youngcarers.info | All areas of policy, practice and research in the carers field, especially young carers, young adult carers and student carers: (1) Protecting the mental health and wellbeing of young carers, (2) Supporting young carers through education, (3) Listening to the voices of young carers to support policy and practice, (4) The development and impact of support models, (5) The whole family approach to supporting young carers, (6) The assessment of the needs of young carers and support provision | Young carers / Mental health / Wellbeing / Support / |
| MC | Portillo | Professor of Long Term Conditions | University of Southampton | m.c.portillo-vega@soton.ac.uk | Parkinson's | Parkinson's |
| Caroline | Potter | Senior Research Fellow | University of Oxford | caroline.potter@dph.ox.ac.uk | Chronic long-term conditions (obesity, dementia, multi-morbidity) | Long-term conditions |
| Andrew | Power | Associate Professor of Geography | University of Southampton | a.power@soton.ac.uk | Support provision for disabled people including models of direct payments and personal budgets, peer-support and residential care / Relational geographies of the voluntary sector particularly within the social care landscape / Family caregiving - interdependency between care givers and recipients | Support provision / Family caregiving |
| Hannah | Prentice | PhD Student | King's College London | hannah.prentice@kcl.ac.uk | ||
| David | Raper | Senior Lecturer | University of Winchester | david.raper@winchester.ac.uk | Experience of programme leadership higher education | Education |
| Rachel | Reid | Locality manager | Skills for Care | rachel.reid@skillsforcare.org.uk | ||
| Karen | Roscoe | Lecturer | University of Keele | k.d.roscoe@keele.ac.uk | Social policy initiatives | Social policy |
| Euan | Sadler | Associate professor | University of Southampton and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust | E.A.Sadler@soton.ac.uk | My research interests focus on how we can improve the delivery of person/user centred integrated health and social care to meet the needs of older people (i.e. aged 60 years and over) with high care and support needs in community settings. I am interested in the lived experiences of this service user group and their carers, what helps them to live well, what support they need, as well as understanding what are the workforce challenges of delivering user centred social care practice for this service user group across different social care settings. I am also interested in asset-based approaches to develop interventions and services by focusing on what individuals and communities value, and on building relationships and local partnerships. | Integrated health and social care / Older people / High care and support needs / Lived experiences / Asset-based models of care |
| Haider | Sharif | Lecturer | The Open University | sharif.haider@open.ac.uk | ||
| Jane | Shears | Head of Professional Development | British Association of Social Work | jane.shears@basw.co.uk | ||
| Thomas | Simons | Course lead - Adult Nursing and MSc primary care | Solent University | tom.simons@solent.ac.uk | ||
| Ingrid | Slade | Consultant PH | Wokingham Borough Council | ingrid.slade@wokingham.gov.uk | ||
| Vimal | Sriram | Research assistant | NDPH, University of Oxford | vimal.sriram@ndph.ox.ac.uk | I am an Occupational Therapist and completing my DPhil in Population Health researching on carers’ experience of using assistive technology in dementia care. I also have research interests in research capacity and capability building among nurses, midwives and allied health professionals – within health and social care settings and supporting population health benefits through integrated care. | Capacity building / Dementia care / Mixed methods / Patient/carer experience / Integrated care |
| Alyson | Stapleton | Head of Care and Supported Housing | Hightown Housing Association | Alyson.stapleton@hightownha.org.uk | ||
| Dawn | Statham | Social Worker | Midlands Partnership Foundation NHS Trust | Dawn.Statham@mpft.nhs.uk | ||
| Robyn | Stiger | Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy | Oxford Brookes University | robynstiger@brookes.ac.uk | Critical care medicine and pre- and postoperative surgical management / Use of simulation as a teaching tool to enhance complex reasoning, patient safety and inter-professional learning | Critical care medicine / Surgical management |
| Penny | Thewlis | Chief Executive | Age UK Oxfordshire | pennythewlis@ageukoxfordshire.org.uk | ||
| Sarah | Thomas | RDS-SW Adviser/Deputy Director BUCRU | Bournemouth University | saraht@bournemouth.ac.uk | Care home | |
| Lesley | Thoms | PhD Fellow | King’s College London | lesley.thoms@kcl.ac.uk | ||
| Jane | Townson | CEO | United Kingdom Homecare Association | jane.townson@ukhca.co.uk | ||
| Annabel | Tremlett | Senior lecturer | University of Portsmouth | annabel.tremlett@port.ac.uk | I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, teaching on the social work undergraduate and Masters programme along with supervising PhD and Professional Doctorate students. I am not a social work practitioner but am seen as coming with ‘research’ experience which many of my colleagues don’t yet have (I love this position by the way, being an outsider/insider). I do have a lot of experience working with different communities, particularly young people and Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people in various organisations. My research interests include investigating the life stories and everyday experiences of the childhood and family experiences of people from minority or so-called marginalized groups. I have particular experience researching and working with people from Roma/Gypsy heritages and from Central and Eastern Europe (I lived in Hungary for many years and still visit frequently). I am particularly interested in utilizing this research to think through issues around social justice, as well as challenging racism and misleading representations. I have extensive expertise in ethnographic and photo elicitation research. More on my profile can be found here: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/annabel-tremlett(611d6466-1cfe-460e-acb2-8e6adcae9d61).html | Ethnographic, minorities, migrants, anti-racism, visual methods |
| Jo | Turpett | Research Nurse | Solent NHS Trust | johanna.turpitt1@solent.nhs.uk | ||
| Derick | Wade | Professor in Neurological Rehabilitation | Oxford Brokkes University/NHS | derick.wade@ntlworld.com | ||
| Marney | Walker | Independent Occupational Therapist - Research | Sheffield Hallam University | marney.j.walker@student.shu.ac.uk | ||
| Sandra | Walker | Senior Teaching Fellow | Portsmouth University and SanityCo | sandra.walker@port.ac.uk | Creative and Community Approaches to Mental Distress / Approaching and delivering care / Thinking about illness / Using the arts in healthcare / Exploring the needs of people who cannot successfully get their needs met in Primary Care but do not meet the criteria for Secondary Care / Interface between physical and mental health and the effect that trauma has on these / Self-Harm and Suicide | Mental health / Art / Suicide/ Self-harm |
| Jessica | Wallis | Clinical research nurse | Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust | jessica.wallis@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk | ||
| Jo | Welch | Programme Lead Learning Disability Nursing | University of Winchester Head of School | Jo.Welch@Winchester.ac.uk | Learning Disability / Nursing | |
| Jenni | Wessels | Lecturer | University of Portsmouth | Jennifer.wessels@port.ac.uk | ||
| Max | Wurr | Director of Policy and Communications | City and County Healthcare Group | max.wurr@candchealthcare.co.uk | ||
| Mary | Zacaroli | CEO/Founder | Paint Buzz | mary.zacaroli@icloud.com | I run upcycling and craft workshops with people of all ages, abilities and disabilities or those who are differently abled (such as the neurodiverse) through my social enterprise Paint Buzz. I am also public theme champion in Oxford and Thames Valley’s Ox-Arc Theme 4: Community Health and Social Care. With the help of staff theme champion Dr Caroline Potter, I have completed a small research project looking at how Paint Buzz activities help quality of life and we are looking to expand this. I am also really interested in this being widened to other community-based hands-on activities so that those looking for funding, can develop a way of collecting/analysing information that means they can show if/how their activities improve quality of life; the possibilities of getting funding and perhaps being able to offer activities on social prescription may then become possible – it’s very much a bottom-up approach. My research interests are using the capability approach in community-based activities and finding playful, inclusive and/or visual forms of data collection for research and self-knowledge. | Innovative bottom-up data / Capability approach |