Just out: new paper from Unit Director Annette Boaz et al. If health organisations and staff engage in research, does healthcare improve? Strengthening the evidence base through systematic reviews in Health Research Policy and Systems #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1186/s12961…

🌟Exciting opportunity! We’re seeking a Research Assistant to join our team and assist with producing policy-related reproductive health research. Do you have research experience in reproductive or women’s health? This could be for you! More here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Great blog and really interesting thoughts on the values, opportunities, and possible limitations around the witness seminar approach.

Do you want to know more about #PublicInvolvement in research? Are you interested in getting involved but not sure where to start? 💭 Our Public Information Pack is a great starting point! Find out more and start your involvement journey with NIHR ➡️ learningforinvolvement.org.uk/content/resour…

Delighted to share my ⁦The Churchill Fellowship⁩ report on Protecting Nurses from Suicide. Learning lessons from the USA churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/…

Witness seminars are part of the SASCIProject Carl Purcell on innovations - they were so helpful in thinking about the (then) processes of Social Wk registration + Closure of longstay hospitals - reports on both HSCWRU

Jill Manthorpe SASCIProject HSCWRU Our reports available here: The Care Certificate doi.org/10.18742/pub01… Social Worker regustration doi.org/10.18742/pub01… Towards an 'Ordinary Life' doi.org/10.18742/pub01…

Couldn’t have had a nicer welcome to HSCWRU on my first day King's College London . Thank you Annette Boaz and team 😊

It has been a lovely day HSCWRU as we welcomed our new Deputy Director Prof Ann-Marie Towers to The Policy Institute King's College London

September ARCs newsletter mailchi.mp/nihr/september… A toolkit for those working with asylum seekers & migrants, #ADHD assessment technology, testing antibiotic resistance, regional inequalities in #LongCovid, listening to young people, alcohol harm reduction, opportunities & more

Check out our upcoming event from SocWkHistoryNetwork on 24th September: "History shows that social work can too easily be co-opted to implement policies which override human rights of vulnerable groups. But social workers have also challenged and overcome..." kcl.ac.uk/events/social-…

Are we preaching water while drinking wine? 🔔New: Jordan Hill & Nora Revai from OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives CERI bring together lessons for #education from two decades of #KnowledgeMobilisation research. transforming-evidence.org/blog/sweet-dre…

Very sad to learn of the untimely death of my past research colleague Jules Forder. A fine scholar and all-round nice guy. pssru.ac.uk/blog/obituary-…

Has #socialcare used the centrality of human relationships in care settings as 'a convenient excuse not to modernise'? Interesting challenge from Prof. Martin Green Care England 💚

David Brindle HSCWRU Prof. Martin Green Care England 💚 Explored this question from a different angle (human rights) in this report (see p79-83) in case of interest. essex.ac.uk/-/media/docume…

Great opportunity! Do consider it Adult PSW Network ADASS BASW

There's still time to apply for this part-time research associate post - working with a great team, based at HSCWRU King's College London on a dementia and care workforce project. Deadline 8th Sept, apply below: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJE878/res…

Could you help shape our Policy Research Programme as its new Programme Director? We are looking for someone with proven experience of working in evidence-informed policy making. Find out more & apply now ➡️ nihr.ac.uk/jobs/programme…

Unit Annual Report 2023 - out today kcl.ac.uk/news/unit-annu…

The Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee is Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ after being elected unopposed.