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Looking at the bigger picture

Our cross-cutting themes work across our research, providing additional context and insights, each with a specific focus.

Care Data Infrastructure

Improving the social care data and analytical infrastructure.

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Care as a Complex, Adaptive Ecosystem

What makes social care a complex adaptive ecosystem and how can understanding this help improve care outcomes for all.

Digital Care: roles, risks, realities and rewards

Exploring how digital technology, care and caring relationships intersect and interact.

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Some of our recent publications

Valuing Carers 2021: Northern Ireland

A research report by Centre for Care colleagues Jingwen Zhang, Maria Petrillo and Matt Bennett in collaboration with Carers NI, using Census data to estimate the value of unpiad care in Northern Ireland.

Working Paper 4: The Transitions that Matter

As part of exploring transitions for a broader research theme around Care Trajectories and Constraints, we undertook a scoping review of the literature, focusing on how researchers in social care conceptualise and research transitions.

Working Paper 3: Technology and social care: key areas of policy focus in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2019-2022

The 3rd Working Paper from the Centre for Care. Written by Dr Grace Whitfield and Dr Kate Hamblin.

Working Paper 2: What does the concept of an ecosystem offer to social care? A narrative review of the ecosystem literature

Technology and homecare in the UK: Policy, storylines and practice

Valuing Carers 2021: England and Wales

Working Paper 1: Technology in social care: spotlight on the English policy landscape, 2019-2022

We are pleased to release our first Working Paper, written by Dr Grace Whitfield and Dr Kate Hamblin.

Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care

To mark Carers Rights Day 2022, we have collaborated with Carers UK on a new report entitled ‘Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care’, and added insights into the nature of unpaid care in the UK

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