The NIHR Research for Social Care (RfSC) call is an annual competition specifically for social care proposals, run by NIHR's Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme.
The aim of the annual RfSC call is to fund topics and research methodologies that increase the effectiveness of social care services, provide value for money and benefit service users and carers.
This document shows membership of the funding committee for RfSC.
Research for Social Care Funding Committee Members
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Name |
Position |
Organisation |
Expertise |
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Professor David Abbott (Chair) |
Professor (Social Policy), School for Policy Studies |
University of Bristol |
Policy issues relating to disabled children and their families. Social science research with disabled children, young people and adults. Associate Director of NIHR School for Social Care Research |
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Professor Chris Hatton (Deputy Chair) |
Professor of Social Care |
Manchester Metropolitan University |
Policy relevant research involving people with learning disabilities |
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Dr Kate Baxter |
Senior Research Fellow |
University of York |
Qualitative research methods, social care for adults and older people, home care, personal budgets, self-funders |
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Ms Regina Adu |
Social Work Lead (Children and Adults) |
NHS Royal National Orthopedic Hospital |
Social Worker specializing in Adult Social Care with over 16 years of experience providing support, counsel, and assistance to a wide range of individuals/patients in need. |
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Mr Glen Garrod |
Executive Director of Adult Care and Community Wellbeing
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Lincolnshire County Council |
Expertise in the field of social policy, strategic social care commissioning and the operation of social care services |
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Dr Paul Willis |
Senior Lecturer in Social Work with Adults |
University of Bristol |
Social care researcher with research expertise in older men's experiences of loneliness and social isolation; sexuality, care and ageing; trans ageing and gender identity |
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Dr Jenni Brooks |
Senior Lecturer in Sociology |
Sheffield Hallam University |
Qualitative researcher and academic in social policy and sociology, with a particular focus on dementia, disability and the personalisation of social care |
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Professor Julie Fish |
Chair in Social Work & Health Inequalities |
De Montfort University |
Social perspectives in cancer; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans cancer inequalities; knowledge exchange; patient involvement; social work and health inequalities; qualitative approaches; human rights; oncology |
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Professor Claire Hulme |
Professor in Health Economics and Director |
Institute of Health Research, University of Exeter |
Health Economics, economic evaluation alongside clinical trials; economic evaluation of community programmes spanning the health and social services |
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Professor Frank Keating |
Professor in Social Work and Mental Health |
Royal Holloway University of London |
His research interests are ethnicity, gender, ageing and mental health |
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Dr Anne Killett |
Lecturer in Occupational Therapy |
University of East Anglia |
Participatory research, qualitative research, care organisation for older people, research with marginalised groups, multi-agency working, child and adolescent mental health |
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Mr Nanik Pursani |
Public Member |
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Professional background in education across all sectors & inspection based work; Experience of reviewing NIHR applications across Programmes, including including the Policy Research programme |
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Dr Brynmor Lloyd-Evans |
Associate Professor In the Division of Psychiatry |
University College London |
Social care, mental health, psychosis, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, mixed methods health services research, complex interventions, development of measures, large scale service evaluation, qualitative research, clinical trials |
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Dr Juliette Malley |
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow |
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science |
Adult social care, especially quality, innovation and commissioning; user experience; quality of life and outcomes measurement; survey research |
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Professor Jill Manthorpe |
Professor of Social Work and Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit on Health & Social Care Workforce |
King's College London |
Associate Director NIHR School for Social Care Research within The Policy Institute at King's College London, She is also Social Care theme lead for NIHR Applied Research Collaborative South London. She served as Chair of the NIHR Policy Research Programme Panel (2013-20) and has been a grant panel member for the Alzheimer's Society, Dunhill Medical Trust and Stroke Association |
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Dr Julie Ridley |
Director of Centre for Citizenship and Community |
University of Central Lancashire |
Applied research in health and social care/policy, participatory research, qualitative research. Areas of focus - mental health, learning disabilities, independent advocacy, family carers |
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Mrs Ann-Marie Towers |
Reader in Social Care, Centre for Health Service Studies (CHSS) |
University of Kent |
Adult Social Care, with a specific interest in quality of life and outcome measurement (ASCOT), care homes, dementia, care quality and care planning |
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Ms Helen Weatherly |
Reader in Health Economics |
University of York |
Economic evaluation of health and social care interventions |
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Dr Philip Whitehead |
Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy |
Northumbria University |
Occupational therapist with a background in social care research and practice, developing and evaluating community based rehabilitation interventions, methodological expertise in systematic reviewing, qualitative interview studies and particularly Randomised Controlled Trials |
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Dr Mark Wilberforce |
Senior Research Fellow in Social Care |
University of York |
Social care and social work research in adult community services, including mental health and older people. Methodological interest in measurement and psychometrics |
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Mr Nic Vine |
Public Member |
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Cross-industry project, change and business management. Mentoring young project professionals. Patient advocacy. Bridging communicator between different communities. |
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Mr Francis James |
Public Member |
Lived experience as a carer for family members |
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Dr Ly-Mee Yu |
Lead Trial Statistician, University of Oxford; Research Advisor, Research Design Service for the South Central region
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University of Oxford |
Randomised clinical trials, epidemiology and medical statistics
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