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…
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…
Innovating Assistive Tech for Dementia: Understanding and Empowering Underrepresented Communities in Social Care – Wales Innovation Network
Technology is reshaping the way adult social care services are delivered. Tech benefits for a “Dementia Friendly Wales” will only be realised if innovation reaches rural and urban environments and underrepresented people living with dementia, such as migrants, neurodivergent people,…
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…
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…