SSCR fellows

Dr Hilary Abrahams, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Kerry Allen, University of Birmingham
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
David Ansari, King's College London
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Karl Atkin, University of York
Co-author of methods review research with BME populations in social care
Professor Anthony Avery, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Laura Banks, University of Brighton
Co-Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Marian Barnes, University of Brighton
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Peter Bartlett, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Kate Baxter, University of York
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Jennifer Beecham, University of Kent
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, University of Kent
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Peter Beresford, Brunel University
Co-author of methods review on user-led research in adult social care

Peter Beresford OBE is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University. He is also Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national service user organisation and network and a long term user of mental health services.

He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), and a former trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and current trustee of the Skills Academy for Social Care. Peter is a member of the Department of Health Ministerial Reference Group for Social care, the DH Advisory Board for the Transformation of Adult Social Care, of the National Institute for Health Research and of NIHR Involve.

His particular interests are participation and participatory research approaches, particularly in relation to health, social care, disabled people, mental health service users/survivors, welfare reform and palliative care.
Christian Brand, University of Manchester
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Jenni Brooks, University of York
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Dr Lisa Buckner, University of Leeds
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Dr Christina Buse, University of Leeds
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Lisa Callaghan, University of Kent
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Ailsa Cameron, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Nigel Charles, Plymouth University
Author of methods review on research with people with visual impairments
Dr Harriet Clarke, University of Birmingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Paul Clarkson, University of Manchester
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Paul Clifford, FACE Recording and Measurement Systems
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Michelle Cornes, King's College London
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Gary Craig, Durham University
Co-author of methods review research with BME populations in social care
Gary Craig is Visiting Professor at the University of Durham and Professor Emeritus of Social Justice and Associate Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include 'race' and ethnicity, community development, local governance, poverty and deprivation, children and young people and contemporary forms of slavery.

He has more than 250 publications, the most recent of which are Community capacity building (OECD) and Mapping rapidly changing ethnic minority populations (Joseph Rowntree Foundation). Further information: http://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/staff/profile/?id=8058.
Dr Guy Daly, University of Derby
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Sara Dewson, Institute for Employment Studies
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Eric Emerson, Lancaster University
Author of scoping review on prevention in learning disability; Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Eric Emerson is Professor of Disability and Health Research at Lancaster University (UK) and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. In 2008 he received a Distinguished Career Award for his contribution to research by the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID).

He is currently responsible for liaison between IASSID and the World Health Organisation. Eric has been a member of several advisory groups to government and non-government organizations and has written several books and over 140 articles in academic and professional journals on issues related to the health and social inequalities faced by disabled children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Further information: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cedr/profiles/Eric-Emerson.
Zara Ferreira, City University
Co-author of methods review on research in care homes
Diane Fox, University of Kent
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Dr Gary Fry, University of Leeds
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Gill Furze, Coventry University
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Rachel Fyson, University of Nottingham
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Alison Giraud-Saunders, Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor John Gladman, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham
SSCR Senior Fellow, Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Claire Goodman, University of Hertfordshire
Author of methods review on end of life care
Kate Gridley, University of York
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Kerry Gutridge, University of Bristol
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Chris Hatton, Lancaster University
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Lorna Henry, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Shereen Hussein, King's College London
Author of methods review on large-scale datasets
Shereen Hussein is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London. She is a demographer and statistician with strong applied experience in a number of domains including marriage and family structure, child morbidity and population ageing. She holds a Ph.D in Statistical demography from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Shereen possesses a unique range of skills and experiences in both quantitative and qualitative research design and has worked with a number of international health and population organisations, such as the Population Council, United Nations and has been recently commissioned by the World Bank to produce a review of long term care. She has recently completed two complex studies; one related to the protection of vulnerable adults and the other on the profile, experiences and expectations of migrants working in the English care sector for the Department of Health and has expertise in long term care and workforce implications.

Her research interests include understanding the interactions between personal identities and work-environment hierarchy with work dynamics and quality of services in the care sector. Further information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/sshm/scwru/people/hussein/current.aspx
Dr Jane Hughes, University of Manchester
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Robert Jones, University of Nottingham
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Derek King, London School of Economics and Political Science
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Adele Laing, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Joan Langan, University of Bristol
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Anne Laybourne, Mental Health Foundation
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Sarah Lewis, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Liz Lloyd, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Rebekah Luff, University of Southampton
Co-author of methods review on research in care homes
Dr Mark Lymbery, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Jim Mansell, University of Kent
Professor of Learning Disability, and Director of the Tizard Centre
Rachel Marangozov, Institute for Employment Studies
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Julienne Meyer, City University
Co-author of methods review on research in care homes
Dr Wendy Mitchell, University of York
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Jo Moriarty, King's College London
Author of methods review on qualitative methodologies; Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Karen Morgan, University of Bristol
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Vicky Nicholls, University of Birmingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Joy Oakley, Institute of Employment Studies
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Dr Anne Patterson, University of Nottingham
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Dr Demetrios Patsios, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Margaret Perkins, London School of Economics and Political Science
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Dr Linda Pickard, London School of Economics and Political Science
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Denise Porter, West Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Susan Porter, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Elizabeth Price, University of Hull
Author of methods review on sexualities in social care research
Dr Parvaneh Raibee, University of York
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Dan Robotham, Mental Health Foundation
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Janet Robertson, Lancaster University
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Ian Russell, University of Swansea
Co-author of methods review on chance based designs
Ian Russell is a career health care researcher who specialises in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of pragmatic randomised trials. He was an early protagonist of patient-reported outcome measures and systematic reviews to aggregate the findings of trials. Since returning to Wales in 2002, he has established two Clinical Trials Units and registered both with the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. The North Wales Organisation for Randomised Trials in Health (NWORTH) specialises in trials in dementia care; and the West Wales Organisation for Rigorous Trials in Health (WWORTH) specialises in trials in secondary and emergency care.
Dr Deborah Rutter, Social Care Institute for Excellence
Author of methods review on systematic reviewing
Deborah is a Senior Research Analyst at Social Care Institute for Excellence, where she has an organisation-wide brief to support the production and dissemination of high quality research. She is leading the development of SCIE's systematic review and systematic mapping guidance, and supporting SCIE's work on the role of social care and social work in reducing health inequalities.

Deborah has recently set up the national Social Care Research Ethics Committee on behalf of National Research Ethics Service and Department of Health. She has a PhD in social anthropology (London) deriving from study in Nepal, and spent almost a decade as a research fellow at Imperial College Medical School, Dept of Community Psychiatry, researching participant and provider views for multi-faceted evaluations, including the evaluation of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder pilot programmes in HM Prison Service.

She has researched and published on user involvement in mental health services and in change management, community-based personality disorder services, treatment services for crack cocaine users, prevalence of dual diagnosis, risk management strategies and qualitative research methods. She is a trustee of a national social exclusion charity, specialising in mental health and youth services.
Professor Justine Schneider, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Ian Shaw, University of Nottingham
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Alice Sinclair, Institute for Employment Studies
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Hazel Squires, University of Sheffield
Author of methods review on modelling
Madeleine Starr, Carers UK
Consultant on SSCR-funded project
Dr Martin Stevens, King's College London
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Julia Stroud, University of Brighton
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Brian Taylor, University of Ulster
SSCR Senior Fellow
Dr Jerry Tew, University of Birmingham
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Tom Vickers, Durham University
Co-author of methods review research with BME populations in social care Having completed a BA in Youth and Community Work in 2005 and an MA in Social Research Methods (Social Work) in 2007, Tom Vickers is currently undertaking PhD research within Durham University's School of Applied Social Sciences on an ESRC 1+3 programme.

Research interests include qualitative methods and Marxism, ethnicity and welfare, refugee and asylum experiences, alternative conceptions of social capital and the history of anti-racist movements. Further information: http://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/staff/profile/?mode=staff&id=5600.
Professor Linda Ward, University of Bristol
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Martin Webber, King's College London
Principal investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Val Williams, University of Bristol
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project; Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Dr Emma Williamson, University of Bristol
Principal Investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Bob Woods, Bangor University
Co-author of methods review on change based designs
Bob Woods has been a practising clinical psychologist working with older people for over 30 years, training and working initially in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before moving to London where he worked at the Institute of Psychiatry and University College. Since 1996, he has been Professor of Clinical Psychology of Older People at Bangor University, where he currently acts as head of the Institute of Medical and Social Care Research and the Bangor Trials Unit.

He is Director of NEURODEM Cymru, the dementias and neurodegenerative diseases research network for Wales, and is an Alzheimer's Society Ambassador. One main focus of his research concerns the development and evaluation of therapeutic approaches for people with dementia and their care-givers, and this has led to a number of studies carried out in care homes, including several using randomised controlled designs.

He has also been involved in the evaluation of Carers Strategies in England and Wales. Further information: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/psychology/research/staff_profile.php?person=bob_woods; http://www.bangor.ac.uk/imscar/dsdc/.
Dr John Woolham, Coventry University
Author of methods review on procedures and practices in research governance and ethics for adult social care research
Dr Chengqiu Xie, University of Manchester
Researcher on SSCR-funded project
Professor Sue Yeandle, University of Leeds
Co-investigator on SSCR-funded project
Professor Alys Young, University of Manchester
Author of methods review on research with people with hearing difficulties