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.
Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
As part of our ‘Transitions that Matter’ commentary series, Catherine Needham and members of the Centre for Care Voice Forum and the University of Birmingham Lived Experience Panel explore why so few people continue to transition to direct payments.
Read More about Why is the take-up of direct payments so low?Sue Yeandle comments on the recent reporting on Carer’s Allowance, providing context and highlighting the need for much overdue reform.
Read More about Carer’s allowance: let’s end this scandal now!Nick Morgan writes about the obstacle of time to practicing relational care in the context of homecare.
Read More about No time for that! Practicing relational care in the UK homecare sectorYingzi Shen writes about the multi-generational effects that rural-to-urban migration in China is having on familial care.
Read More about The glory and stress of Chinese rural migrant grandparents
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We explore how arrangements for care – formal systems, support by families and friends, local and national arrangements affecting daily life – fit together and affect each other, focusing on how care system outcomes could be improved.
Read moreabout Care as a Complex Adaptive EcosystemWe work to improve the quality, availability and provision of data on care, collaborating with ONS and other partners to produce up-to-date, world-class data infrastructure on care for all to use.
Read moreabout Care Data InfrastructureWe investigate how digital technologies, care and caring relationships are evolving and interact, and what this means for people with support needs, those who assist them and the wider care system.
Read moreabout Digital Care: roles, risks, realities and rewardsOur 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 ConstraintsWe 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 ChangeWe 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 CareLatest Updates
News and latest content from the Centre for Care
We are pleased to virtually welcome Dr Sophie Rutter from the Information School, University of Sheffield, to present Community care workers’ access to hygiene facilities: the right to working conditions which “respect health, safety and dignity”
Read More about Seminar: Community care workers’ access to hygiene facilities: the right to working conditions which “respect health, safety and dignity”We are pleased to virtually welcome Dr Yanan Zhang from the Oxford Institute of Population on 28th May 2024.
Read More about Seminar: Health inequalities across older adults cared for by daughters and sons in modernising ChinaEvent recording now available.
Read More about Navigating Transnational Aged Care: The Role of WhatsApp in Zimbabwean Migrant Families
This presentation by Dr Obert Tawodzera sheds light on the pivotal role of WhatsApp family groups in facilitating transnational aged care.Event recording now available. We welcomed Adelina Comas-Herrera to present a seminar on Tuesday 26th March 2024.
Read More about Seminar: Long-Term Care: from the individual experiences to the global context