Looking at the bigger picture
Our cross-cutting themes work across our research, providing additional context and insights, each with a specific focus. In our Research Groups, we study the support, services and protections needed to enhance the wellbeing of people with care and support needs in daily life and the networks, communities and systems that affect them.
Cross-cutting themes
Improving the social care data and analytical infrastructure.
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What makes social care a complex adaptive ecosystem and how can understanding this help improve care outcomes for all.
Read moreabout Care as a Complex, Adaptive Ecosystem
Exploring how digital technology, care and caring relationships intersect and interact.
Read moreabout Digital Care and InnovationResearch 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 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
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