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…
PhD studentship funded by NIHR: Exploring linked administrative data on adults in receipt of care and support in Wales
Deadline for applications: 12 midday on 28 July 2025 Supervisors: Professor Jonathan Scourfield and Dr Fiona Lugg-Widger Find out how to apply The following PhD studentship opportunity is now being advertised for 1st October 2025 entry. “Exploring linked administrative data…
CARE Lab – Join our Lived Experience Group
What is CARE Lab? CARE Lab is a new research project that will help improve adult social care in Wales. It will safely link anonymous data from social care, health, and other services to better understand who gets care and…
Finding improvements to adult social care through data
An initiative to provide better insights from data on adult social care in Wales has launched. The Social Care Linked Data Lab (CARE Lab), led by Cardiff University’s Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE), has received £1,441,577 in funding…
10 Key adult social care research priority questions identified
A consensus workshop to finalise the top 10 research priorities for adult social care linked data research was held on 12 March. The workshop brought together people from across the social care sector, including members of the Centre for Adult…
Experts join forces to improve research on suicide prevention and self-harm in Wales
3 April 2025 Cardiff University academics are teaming up with experts across Wales to drive research into suicide prevention and self-harm. The National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Research marks a significant milestone in addressing one of the nation’s…
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…
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…
Dementia Support in a Diverse World
CARE are collaborating with ExChange Wales this March for their spring conference ‘Dementia Support in a Diverse World’, including a series of webinars from social work researchers, practitioners and individuals with dementia. Sign up today for these free upcoming webinars.…
Centre for Adult Social Care Research establishes Practice Advisory Forum
The Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) has hosted its first meeting of the CARE Practice Advisory Forum. The Practice Advisory Forum brings together professionals, practitioners and carers from adult social care, serving as an advisory group within CARE. …