The News in Brief: Summer 2022
All the latest news from the School of Social Policy.
- IRiS Director Prof Nando Sigona, along with Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips and Dr Stefano Piemontese, will lead a consortium of 16 partners from seven European countries for Horizon Europe, entitled 'Improving the labour and living conditions of irregularised migrant families in Europe' (I-CLAIM).
- The BRACE Centre has published two new reports: The impact of telephone triage on access to primary care for people living with multiple long-term health conditions: a rapid evaluation; and Vertical integration of GP practices with acute hospitals in England and Wales: a rapid evaluation.
- Dr Lorenza Antonucci has won a prestigious scholarship – the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship – to be Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University.
- Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite has published an Open Access edited collection with colleagues for Policy Press: COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic.
- Prof Liz McDermott, Dr Jason Schaub and Dr Willem Stander will work on a US collaboration with the Trevor Project to produce a UK survey on LGBTQ+ youth mental health. This is to produce missing evidence, a digital UK map and provide supporting tools for addressing LGBTQ youth mental health inequalities.
- Prof John Mohan has written about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on charity sector funding for Charity Finance.
- In June, IRiS hosted the final event of the (delayed) EUniWell winter school on migration and diversity in European cities (MADEINEUEOPE) in Florence.
Prof Nando Sigona with participants from the IRiS Winter School in Florence
- Prof Justin Waring has been awarded a THIS Fellowship (The Improvement Studies Institute) to study the spread and adoption of a new service model for peri-operative care for older people undergoing surgery (POPS). The study will focus primarily on the NHS with some international comparisons until September 2023.
- Prof Liz McDermott, working with collaborators at the University of Glasgow, London School of Tropical Medicine and National Centre for Social Research, has been awarded a grant from the UKRI MRC call for methodological advancement in adolescent mental health research. The project aims to advance understanding of links between adolescent gender and sexual identities, sexuality, sexual wellbeing and mental health.
- Dr Justin Cruickshank and Dr Ross Abbinnett have edited a new book entitled The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age: Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Collective Studies in Knowledge series with Rowman and Littlefield.
- Prof Martin Powell has published a new article in Health Economics, Policy and Law Journal: Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Prof Nando Sigona and colleagues have published the second report from the MIGZEN Project: EU citizens in the UK six years after the Brexit referendum.
- In May and June, Dr Kelly Hall and Dr Caroline Jackson ran a series of events on participatory research in social care. The events were co-designed and co-run with Co-Production Works, Communicate2U and the Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC).
- CHASM's Dr James Gregory has published a book with Policy Press: Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare.
- Prof Justin Waring, Prof Mark Exworthy and colleagues have published an article in BMJ Leader: Acquiring and developing healthcare leaders’ political skills: an interview study with healthcare leaders. They have also published an article in the International Journal of Health Policy Management: Understanding the political skills and behaviours for leading the implementation of health services change: a qualitative interview study.