Challenging negative narratives about Social Care Nursing.
Would you call working in social care ‘career suicide’? This was a view shared with me by a senior colleague at the start of my...
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Community, Collaboration and Curiosity
My reflections from being a research trainee with the University of Leeds’s National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) School of Social Care Research...
Working to Improve Care Through Research Event
More than a tick box Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) is a term researchers are becoming increasingly familiar with. When writing bids to...
Choices (part 2)
So what can I do for to improve my decisions and judgements in my home? In my last blog I argued that to reduce variation...
Why Westward Care invests in a care and science partnership
Why Westward Care invests in a care and science partnership: Reflections on NICHE‑Leeds I was delighted to join colleagues at Queen Mary University of London’s...
Choices Part 1
Choices (part 1) – how decisions and judgements are the engine room of all that is good, and bad, about care for older people. Care homes are...
Loneliness in care homes: why we’re doing even more research
An older person in a home’– it’s a lonely stereotype many of us are familiar with. ‘I’d rather die than be put in a home’ – a sentence I’ve heard a few people...
Wounded Healer
One of my favourite things about research is when you find out that your experience is more universal than you thought, that there are other...
The MEND Study: male workers in social care
Nurturing Innovation in Care Home Excellence in Leeds (NICHE-Leeds) is a partnership between universities and care organisations in Leeds. Their ongoing study, Promoting diversity and...
Male Loneliness: Four studies that shifted my perspective
OPINION Dr John Ratcliffe is a Research Fellow in the School of Healthcare. As part of Men's Health Month, he discusses his research into the...