Care matters. It is a complex and important issue that affects everyone at some point in their life.
The Centre for Care provides accessible evidence on care to inform changes that could improve the lives of millions of people.
The Centre for Care links experts on care in 5 universities, 3 major charities and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.
Funded as an ESRC Research Centre to address the need for evidence on care that can make a difference, we have built a large research team to co-produce excellent research on care topics that really matter. We work closely with partner organisations in the care sector and people with direct experience of care.
Latest Updates
News and latest content from the Centre for Care
Centre members and 2025 Summer School organisers Professor Liam Foster and Professor Majella Kilkey provide a round-up of our Summer School activities.
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Our first Seminar of the academic year is on 14th October with Dr. Emilia Leinonen from the University of Jyväskylä
Read More about Seminar: Living with dementia
Welcome to a new mini-series from the CARE MATTERS podcast!
Read More about New podcast mini-series: How Language Matters episode 1
Kate Hamblin introduces our new Advisory Board Chair, Dr Rebekah Luff.
Read More about Announcing our new Advisory Board Chair
Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
Centre members and 2025 Summer School organisers Professor Liam Foster and Professor Majella Kilkey provide a round-up of our Summer School activities.
Read More about Summer School 2025
PhD Student Millie Hind writes about a recent trip to Bogotá, and reflects on the relationship between feminist approaches and care.
Read More about Feminist approaches to care: A month in Bogotá
Our new video released for European Carers Day highlights the challenges faced by migrant careworkers coming to the UK. This powerful conversation between PhD student Millie Hind (Centre for Care) and Patricia Chinyoka, founder of Women of Zimbabwe, has spotlighted the harrowing challenges faced by migrant careworkers — particularly single mothers — trying to bring […]
Read More about European Carers Day 2025: Exploring policy barriers faced by migrant careworkers coming to the UK
Centre for Care researchers have been looking at what digital skills are already present across different levels of the care workforce, and what skills might need to be developed.
Read More about Investing in digital care skills: whose skills and why?
Explore key topics
Exploring how digital technology, care and caring relationships intersect and interact.
Read moreabout Digital Care: roles, risks, realities and rewards
Improving the social care data and analytical infrastructure.
Read moreabout Care Data InfrastructureOur Research Groups
Here we explore experiences of care at different life stages, when families are geographically dispersed and as people experience different parts of the care system.
Read moreabout Care Trajectories and Constraints
We use statistics and link data to study how socio-economic, health and other inequalities shape experiences of care for groups and individuals in different places and over time.
Read moreabout Inequalities in Care
We study change, innovation and challenges in paid care work: recruitment, organisation, conditions, digitalisation and their effects on job and service quality.
Read moreabout Care Workforce Change
Who we’re working with
The Centre for Care links experts on care in 5 universities, 3 major charities and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.
