All Outputs (5)

‘Shooting in the dark’: Implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care (2024)
Journal Article
Gray, K., Dibsdall, L., Sumpter, L., Cameron, A., Willis, P., Symonds, J., …Cabral, C. (in press). ‘Shooting in the dark’: Implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care. Evidence and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648y2024d000000024

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)
Conference Proceeding
O'Donovan, C., Caleb-Solly, P., Kumar, P., Russell, S., Sumpter, L., & Williams, R. (2023). Empowering future care workforces: scoping human capabilities to leverage assistive robotics. In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3600210

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
Caleb-Solly, P., Sumpter, L., & Kumar, P. (2021, October). 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. Presented at ACPIN International Conference and AGM, 2021, Online

Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry (2021)
Thesis
Sumpter, L. Facilitating family engagement in older people's home-based reablement: A realist inquiry. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7075880

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)
Conference Proceeding
Van Maris, A., Sumpter, L., Ruiz Garate, V., Kumar, P., Harper, C., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2021). The case for an intervention scale to design the balance of authority for robotic assistance. In S. Bringsjord, M. Osman Tokhi, M. Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira, N. Sundar Govindarajulu, & M. F. Silva (Eds.), Life-world for Artificial and Natural Systems - ICRES 2021 Proceedings (21-23)

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.