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Centre for Care Policy and Practice Partners

Centre for Care Policy and Practice (P&P) partners advise and guide the Centre’s development, assist with research and data access, and support the research team and partners in achieving our capacity building and impact aims.

Our dynamic, proactive impact programme is a key priority which involves everyone in the Centre. Working together, we will ensure our theoretical and empirical work and the new understandings of care we produce play their part in driving change:

  • improving care practices and policy implementation;
  • reducing inequalities in care; 
  • enhancing the wellbeing of actors in the care ecosystem;
  • minimising strain at key transition points; 
  • and alerting decision-makers to the consequences of policy choices that affect care ecosystem outcomes.

We work with partners to ensure our questions and study designs focus on real-world problems and, where feasible, partners’ priorities. We collaborate with others and/or coproduce our research with partners to ensure our studies are multi-faceted, holistic and reflect the complex realities of care, and we aim to action short- and long-term change-focused dissemination of all our findings.

What does being a Centre for Care P&P Partner involve?

Centre for Care P&P partners sign a light-touch Participation Agreement, which outlines our relationship and provides IP protection. There is no “one size fits all” approach to engaging with us, but here’s a list of activities that partners can get involved with:

  • Working together on joint outputs that answer questions important to the Centre and to our partners, such as Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care with Carers UK
  • Participating in and attending Centre events, such as our Technology and Care Expert-led sessions
  • Promoting each other’s work via our respective networks
  • Collaborating on new funding applications
  • Providing advice and guidance on our work
  • Identifying opportunities for co-production
  • Working together to facilitate the implementation of recommendations and evidence produced by the Centre.

Main collaborating partners

The Centre for Care is proud to collaborate with partners in the UK and around the world.

Policy and Practice partners

International academic partners

We have partner scholars in 11 collaborating institutions, with linked PhD students and researchers. Our partner scholars ensure we learn from other experts about ways of understanding, measuring or interpreting developments in how care is organised and experienced, and keep up to date with latest research and scholarship.

Our collaboration will focus on sharing data and research instruments; exchange of methodological, theoretical and policy / practice knowledge; and developing international KE and impact activities. We will work together in preparing publications, hosting and attending global care research workshops and conferences, and building capacity in international research on care.