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.
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Latest Updates
News and latest content from the Centre for Care
Centre for Care Impact Specialist, Fay Benskin, provides highlights from our first Policy Breakfast event at the House of Commons, which explored the evidence in support of Paid Carer’s Leave.
Read More about Policy breakfast: the evidence in support of Paid Carer’s Leave
Between 2022 and 2025 we examined national policy contexts across the four UK nations and explored how care stakeholders engage with technology. Here, Professor Kate Hamblin and Dr. PJ Annand provide an update on the theme’s activities.
Read More about Digital Care and Innovation theme recap 2022-2025
Episode three of our How Language Matters podcast mini-series!
Read More about Podcast- How Language Matters episode 3: How language matters in the research process
A ‘double headliner’ event! We virtually welcome Dr. Maria Petrillo and Dr. Jingwen Zhang to present their research for us on 11th November 2025.
Read More about Seminar: Dr. Maria Petrillo and Dr. Jingwen Zhang
Commentary
Our latest commentary pieces
The Centre for Care and CHASM respond to the Autumn Budget 2025, highlighting the lack of mention for unpaid carers and disabled people.
Read More about Invisible Again: Unpaid Carers and Disabled People are absent from the Autumn Budget
Becky Driscoll and Kate Hamblin comment on the report from the Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments inquiry and the Government’s response.
Read More about The Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments: A Welcome Step Towards Wider Reform of Welfare Benefits for Carers
Professor Sue Yeandle OBE looks back on the global carers’ movement on Carers UK’s 60th Anniversary.
Read More about 60th Anniversary: Happy Birthday to Carers UK and to the global carers’ movement
Here we provide links to our recent key outputs around unpaid carers.
Read More about Carers Rights Day 2025: ‘Know your rights, use your rights’
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.
