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What the Evidence Shows: Reflections from My Internship on Race and the Mental Health Act
By Gracious Shonge, CARE Research Intern When I started my internship at CARE, I thought I understood discrimination fairly well. I’m a law student who has interned with Amnesty International and cares deeply about human rights. What I didn’t expect was how much a summer reading academic papers on mental health law would change how… -
Turning Voices into Evidence: My Placement Experience at CARE
Alik SahaMSc Psychology Student, Cardiff UniversityPlacement Student, Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) I joined the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) as an MSc Psychology student, and it has been a rewarding experience that has helped develop my personal and professional skills. Completing this three-month placement enabled me to apply my academic… -
Beyond the Asylum: Social Workers and Mental Health Reform in Brazil
Felipe Szabzon On the 7th and 8th of July, CARE was delighted to host Dr Felipe Szabzon, a visiting researcher from University of São Paulo and King’s College London, whose work explores urban mental health, community care, and social inequality especially in Brazil. Hosted by Dr Jeremy Dixon. Pelipe presented the seminar, “Who Cares in Unequal… -
HIV Through the Lens of LGBTQ+ Communities: From Crisis to Collective Power
by Dr Adam DN Williams Few health conditions are as deeply woven into the fabric of LGBTQ+ history as HIV. Across four decades, HIV has shaped our politics, our communities, our relationships, and our sense of collective identity. It is a story marked by profound loss and extraordinary resilience, by medical innovation and social injustice,… -
Disability History Month: Reflecting on the Purpose of Social Care in Wales
By Dr Alison Tarrant When we think about social care, we often think about the support needs of older people. But social care also plays a critical role in the lives of disabled people of working age. In the UK the annual Disability Awareness Month runs from late November to late December. At CARE, it… -
Benefits and barriers to assistive technology use for social care
by Rachel Stevenson During my time at CARE, I assisted with analysis of transcripts, field notes and visual data collected by Dr Sofia Vougiokalou and Dr Roser Beneito-Montagu in the ‘Innovating Assistive Technology for Dementia’ research project. The main themes I have identified through my analysis were concerns over the quality of care provided by social services and issues around communication and… -
Uncovering the Legacy of Cardiff University Social Services
By Erina Butler This summer, I have embarked on an exciting internship project with the Centre for Adult Social Care Research and the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre, exploring the legacy of the Cardiff University Social Services group (CUSS), now known as Innovate Trust, an organisation that played a vital role in shaping… -
Ageism in Wales
By Harry Lightfoot Over the summer I interned with CARE. My project was a literature review of ageism in Wales, and we worked alongside the Ministerial Advisory Forum on Ageing (MAFA) in the Welsh Government, with the findings from the literature review aiming to support a funding bid for an anti-ageist campaign in Wales. It… -
The Overlooked Inequalities Faced by Women with Social Care Needs
by Sophie Wood On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2025, it feels fitting to reflect on the inequalities faced by women with social care needs. This is by no means an exhaustive exploration; an entire book could be written on the subject. Rather, the aim is to spark conversation, encourage reflection, and inspire individuals to… -
Honouring the activism of older LGBT+ generations
By Professor Paul Willis, CARE Director Over the last seven decades, older LGBT+ people in the UK have had a lot to protest about. People born in the 1940s and 1950s (the ‘baby boomer’ generation) had lived through decades when sex between men was an illegal act punished through the criminal courts (until a partial… -
What does prevention mean in social care?
By Dr Simon Read Prevention, acting early to stop unwanted things happening, is entrenched into our daily lives. Everyday tasks like tooth-brushing and maxims such as ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ are underpinned by the premise of prevention. It seems so commonsensical, driven by a logic that is hard to deny. Anna Coote summarises… -
Understanding Neurodivergence: A Fresh Look at Language
By Dr Catherine Purcell The way we talk about neurodevelopmental disorders is undergoing a significant shift. For a long time, the term “Neurodevelopmental Disorders,” as outlined in the DSM-5, described a group of conditions including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Learning Disorders, such as… -
Innovating Assistive Technologies for Dementia
Innovating Assistive Technologies for Dementia: Empowering Underrepresented Communities By Dr Roser Beneito-Montagut and Dr Sofia Vougioukalou An innovative and interdisciplinary research project is underway at the Centre of Adult Social Care (CARE), School of Social Sciences (SOCSI) and the Centre for Trials Research (CTR) from Cardiff University. The project aims to transform the use of… -
Welcome to CARE
by Professor Paul Willis Welcome to CARE! As the recently appointed Director, I am delighted to introduce our research centre. Mission Our mission is to make a significant contribution to the knowledge base of adult social care and generate new evidence that informs the delivery of adult social care support through multidisciplinary research, in Wales…
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