Dr Jessica Carlisle

Dr Jessica Carlisle

Research Officer

Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC)

Room No
FAW 5.01B
Languages
Arabic, English, French
Key Expertise
Qualitative research methods (particularly ethnography), Adult social care

About me

Jessica began work as a research officer at CPEC in April 2021. She has been a young carer, worked as a care assistant, and has been employed as a PA by older and Disabled people. She went on to work in housing, mental health support and drug and alcohol dependency services in the community and in residential settings. She later volunteered for several years in suicide prevention.

Jessica began her academic career researching law and society in North Africa and the Levant in 2004. She has completed extensive court- and community-focussed fieldwork in Syria, Morocco, Egypt and Libya on family courts, migration and transitional justice. This has included some work on mental health reform and disability rights in the Middle East and North Africa.

Since joining CPEC, Jessica has worked on studies of how to comprehensively evaluate strength-based approaches to adult social care and how to address barriers to social care innovation. She is currently working on ‘Evaluation of the Out-of-Hospital Care Models programme for people experiencing homelessness’ (in partnership with Kings College London) and ‘Psychological support for individuals and their families affected by NHS-supplied infected blood and blood products’ (in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).

Expertise Details

Qualitative research methods (particularly ethnography); Adult social care; Mental health systems; Human rights