Messages from our new Centre Director, Professor Kate Hamblin, and previous Director, Professor Sue Yeandle.
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Navigating Transnational Aged Care: The Role of WhatsApp in Zimbabwean Migrant Families
Event recording now available.
This presentation by Dr Obert Tawodzera sheds light on the pivotal role of WhatsApp family groups in facilitating transnational aged care.
CARE MATTERS Podcast live episode: AI, Sensors & Robots: what is next for Social Care in the UK?
We are delighted to release the recording of our live podcast event, held at the University of Sheffield as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Sciences.
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Seminar recording now available. We welcomed Dr Tanja Ahlin from the University of Amsterdam to present an online seminar on Tuesday 27th February 2024.
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Who cares about data? Tensions between public trust and private interests in health and social care
Dr Grace Whitfield reflects on concerns around the collection of health and social care data, exploring how public trust is impacted by how data is used.
Read more about Who cares about data? Tensions between public trust and private interests in health and social careWelfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context
A newly published PhD-thesis on welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context by Maria Nilsson, doctoral student at the Swedish Family Care Competence Centre.
Read more about Welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish contextHow co-production in research can be radical plus a new collaboration between Think Local Act Personal and the Centre for Care. Written by Kate Pieroudis (Think Local Act Personal).
Read more about Who asks the questions and who gets to answer?Our new report, written by Centre for Care colleagues Kate Hamblin and Rachael Black, looks at unpaid carers in South Yorkshire and their use of, and access to, digital technologies and online services.
Read more about Digital exclusion and unpaid carers in South YorkshireWatch it again: On Tuesday 18th April 2023 we welcomed Dr James Wright to discuss his first book, ‘Robots Won’t Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation’
Read more about Are robots the solution to Japan’s care crisis?Rachael Black draws together the discussions from the Future of Care North conference centring on the care workforce, including the changing nature of the role and the potential opportunities this could bring when encouraging people to join and remain in the sector.
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We are pleased to release our first Working Paper, written by Dr Grace Whitfield and Dr Kate Hamblin.
Read more about New Working Paper: Technology in social care: spotlight on the English policy landscape, 2019-2022Reflections on ‘A “gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care’
Kate Hamblin writes about her experience giving evidence to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee’s inquiry on adult social care and comments on the subsequent report published in December ’22.
Read more about Reflections on ‘A “gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care’Digital and Technology-Enabled Care Services- where we are and where next.
Recordings of our Expert-led Technology and Care session on 18th October 2022, featuring speakers Richard Parkinson (FarrPoint) and Tim Mulrey (TSA), are now available.
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