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
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. The report shares the care experiences and needs of older people with histories of international migration now living in Sheffield, UK, and those in care relationships with […]
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QAR-Net Care announces its second workshop, submit your papers!
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Celebrating Sue Yeandle’s appointment to OBE in the King’s 2025 Birthday Honours
Read More about Professor Sue Yeandle recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
A Quantitative Lens on Care Inequalities: Socioeconomic Disparities and Structural Barriers Following on from our earlier announcement, we are excited to give a more in-depth overview of the research that will be showcased in our QAR-NET Care symposium at the Transforming Care Conference 2025, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, from 25-27 June. This session […]
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Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
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
Laura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding the concerns of unpaid carers about long-term care systems relying on migrant care workers.
Read More about Mapping informal carers’ (unpaid carers’) concerns regarding long-term care systems relying on migrant care workers
Laura Sbaffi provides a summary of the discussion among participants of the Eurocarers Policy Working Group regarding work-life balance and carers’ leave.
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Centre for Care Researchers Lucy Wood and Becky Driscoll analyse the recent policy discussions around welfare reform in the UK, exploring at the Universal Credit Bill and the Pathways to Work Green Paper published in March 2025.
Read More about Pathways to Work or Pathways to Poverty? The Risks of Welfare Reform for Disabled People and Carers
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.
