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 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.
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.
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 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 1st 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.
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.