Updates

We are very pleased to launch our new impact report today, ‘Towards a better future for care’.

Announcing plans for our 2026 Summer School, applications now open!

Seminar recording now available! We virtually welcomed Professor Jennifer M. Piscopo, from the Royal Holloway University of London, to present ‘Care as a Public Good and a Human Right: Latin America’s Transformative Care Agenda’ on Tuesday 17th February 2026.

Robert Walker and PJ Annand explore how lived experience in care research is valued and recognised, and why this has led to a change in the Centre for Care’s payment policy.

Seminar recording now available! We welcomed Professor Jerry Tew and Dr. Philip Kinghorn from the University of Birmingham, to present ‘Family and Group Conferencing for Adults – what it can offer for informal carers’ on Tuesday 27th January 2026.

Seminar recording now available! We welcomed Dr. Nicola Brimblecombe to present ‘Care and Place: older people’s housing and communities and their social care needs, care use, and care costs’ on Tuesday 13th January 2026.

In this commentary Community Associates and Catherine Needham reflect on the process of working together, as we design and run a scoping project around the charges that disabled people in England pay towards non-residential care.

Dr. Maxine Watkins and Dr. Louise Overton report on the first study to apply subjective notions of financial wellbeing directly to the experience of care and caring and with an emphasis on capturing and understanding changes in carers’ financial lives over time.