All Outputs (6)

What influences the use of research by the adult social care workforce? (2024)
Journal Article

Despite a recognition that research evidence plays a critical role in informing decisions in adult social care, there has been little investment in developing the sector’s own capacity to engage with it. This article reports on a qualitative study of... Read More about What influences the use of research by the adult social care workforce?.

‘Shooting in the dark’: Implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Despite calls for greater use of research and an appetite to do so within adult social care, a gap persists between research and practice. Aims and objectives: To explore views of adult social care staff about research and its application... Read More about ‘Shooting in the dark’: Implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care.

Empowering future care workforces: scoping human capabilities to leverage assistive robotics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How and what health and care professionals do will be changed by the use of robotics technologies in their workplaces. This paper reports provisional results of a 12-month scoping project in which we explained to people working in care sectors what e... Read More about Empowering future care workforces: scoping human capabilities to leverage assistive robotics.

Training needs for future healthcare professionals using assistive robots in health and social care: Exploring the role of system users and staff in safety assurance in the real-world (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry (2021)
Thesis

An ageing population brings pressures and opportunities. Since 2010, the UK Government has invested substantially in reablement, to release pressure in health and social care services and to promote wellbeing. When a deterioration in an individual’... Read More about Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry.

The case for an intervention scale to design the balance of authority for robotic assistance (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

According to United Nations, by 2050 over 20% of the population will be over 65 years old. Ensuring that our ageing population stays independent and healthy for as long as possible requires higher numbers of health and social care professionals than... Read More about The case for an intervention scale to design the balance of authority for robotic assistance.