The CARE Lived Experience Collective is a vital group within the Centre for Adult Social Care. It brings together people with a wide range of experiences of social care – both as people using care and support services for different reasons, or as unpaid carers themselves.
Members of the collective share their insights and perspectives about research based on their lived experience. The collective aims to improve social care research by ensuring it is shaped and influenced by those who have first-hand experience of using and providing adult social care support.
Our Lived Experience Collective members support social care research by identifying important questions, such as what problems research should address, how social care can be improved, and what people truly need. They also advise CARE on:
- How best to include people with lived experience of social care in research.
- Which research topics in social care are important.
- How research findings are fed back to the public.