The news in brief

November and December news from the School of Social Policy. 

• Professor Catherine Needham and Dr Louise Overton will lead the University's work as part of the new ESRC-funded Centre for Care. The Centre is a £10 million investment to support reform within the care system by providing research and evidence over the next decade that will guide decision making and practice. It is a major collaboration between five universities, charities and care sector partners led by the University of Sheffield.
• Professor Paul Montgomery will lead work on a new £2 million grant from the Youth Endowment Fund for a ‘teachable moments’ programme, which will support to young people in hospital settings after they’ve been the victim of a violent attack or exploitation. 
• Professor Jenny Phillimore has been awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Fellowship for research on ‘Violence-disintegration: forced migration, violence and integration’.  She will be developing an innovative theoretical framework and uniting, for the first-time, theory around violence and refugee integration and creating a framework for empirical analyses of interview data from four countries to introduce an original theory of violent dis-integration.
• Associate Professor Denise Tanner and Professor Jon Glasby, with external colleagues, Paul Willis (University of Bristol) and Gerry Nosowska (Effective Practice and BASW) launched a new research project: 'The contribution of social workers to older people's well-being'.
• IRiS and Waseda University’s Institute for Asian Migrations (IAM) have launched the website for the NODE UK|Japan network on migration and diversity. The website contains information about the network and its members and open access working papers, policy briefs, and the articles on the Special Issue of Comparative Migration Studies, as well as video interviews with the editors and authors.
• Professor John Mohan and Dr David Clifford's recent report findings have been published in Civil Society News: Typical charity saw sharp 15% income drop in the first months of the pandemic.
• Professor Justin Waring has edited a new book, Organising Care in a Time of Covid-19, which includes chapters from HSMC colleagues Professor Martin Powell, Dr Sophie King-Hill and Professor Judith Smith. 
• Dr Kelly Hall has published a new article in Ageing and Society: Care precarity among older British migrants in Spain.
• Professor Judith Smith has co-authored an article in the International Journal of Integrated Care: Integrated Care in England – what can we Learn from a Decade of National Pilot Programmes?
• Professor Nando Sigona has published an article in The Conversation: Belarus: border crisis with Poland loses sight of the people trapped in the middle. He also offered expertise to Al Jazeera's Inside Story and appeard on BBC Newsnight. 
• Important findings from three independent evaluations of the NHS Covid Oximetry @home programme completed by RSET and BRACE, the Improvement Analytics Unit (Health Foundation), and Imperial College London, have just been published and are now available to view as a slide set which is informing NHS England & Improvement’s decision-making on the use of pulse oximetry with Covid-19 patients.  
• Congratulations to Dr Resya Cania, who has been awarded a PhD. Resya’s thesis analysed the financial inclusion policy process in Indonesia.
• Congratulation to Dr Sandra Pertek, who has been awarded a PhD. Sandra’s thesis is entitled Forced Migrant Women, Religion and Violence: An Intersectional and Ecological Analysis.
• Congratulations to Dr Editor Musewika, who has been awarded a PhD. Editor's thesis is entitled Are Personal Health Budgets Delivering Choice and Control for People With Complex Healthcare Needs? An Ethnographic Case Study. 
• Dr Louise Overton is part of an NIHR-funded team who have launched a new website called Social Care Talk. The initiative will help people who are affected by the need to fund their own social care later in life. 
• Dr Chloe Alexander’s paper, ‘Can and Should Care Work Mean Empowerment?’ has been accepted for the Carework Virtual Symposium “Moving Past Emergency Responses: Care as Essential Infrastructure” on 1^st March 2022. It will be part of a Scholars-in-Dialogue session on “revisiting the meaning(s) of care,” using a novel format that will feature established care scholars discussing selected papers from innovative scholars.
• Professor Mark Exworthy has co-authored an article in Public Administration: On the character of the new entrepreneurial NHS in England: reforming health care from within?
• Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite has co-authored a new article in FIAN International's latest Right to Food and Nutrition Watch: Food Banks and Charity as a False Response to Hunger in the Wealthy but Unequal Countries. 
• Professors Jon Glasby and Robin Miller have published an article in the International Journal of Integrated Care: Integrated Health and Social Care in England: Ten Years On. 
• The Third Sector Research Centre, supported by Local Trust,  has been following community responses to Covid-19 across 26 neighbourhoods in England since April 2020. In addition to two detailed reports tracking community responses, the latest rapid research briefing analyses how community action has been sustained throughout the pandemic. All the reports and rapid research briefings are available here.