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
Kate Hamblin introduces our new Advisory Board Chair, Dr Rebekah Luff.
Read More about Announcing our new Advisory Board Chair
Join us online as we launch our research briefing – ‘Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works’.
Read More about Launch event: Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works
Jayanthi Lingham and Majella Kilkey have published a new report, ‘Migration and the Right to Care’, from the Borders and Care research study in the Centre for Care.
Read More about New report: Migration and the right to care
QAR-Net Care announces its second workshop, submit your papers!
Read More about QAR-Net Care second workshop: Call for papers
Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
Emily Burn reflects on a symposium looking at reforms of care systems at the Transforming Care conference, held in Helsinki, Finland in June 2025.
Read More about Routes out of the care crisis: exploring care system innovations in comparative perspective
Grace Whitfield, Kate Hamblin and James Wright discuss AI in Care, exploring ethics, equity and ecology.
Read More about AI in care: Augmentation or depletion?
In collaboration with the Social Care Institute for Excellence, our analysis of the UK Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS.
Read More about “Fit for the Future” Our response to the UK Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Written by Majella Kilkey and Jayanthi Lingham,
Read More about Closing off social care jobs to migrant workers will only harm a sector that’s already in crisis
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.
