Home Care Research Engagement Portal

If you would like to express your interest in the Home Care Research Engagement Portal and RELEC, please complete the form

Portal EOI Form

Welcome to the Home Care Research

Engagement Portal

This web page is a hub for Home Care providers, researchers, and those drawing on Home Care services to engage in funded-research into issues affecting the Home Care sector.

We are piloting a forum where Home Care providers, university researchers and the public and users of services can find out about the current research in this sector. They can make the most of it by contributing to research that will have impact.

This idea for this portal came about through a Working Group of Home Care providers, people with lived experience, university researchers, Clinical Research Network staff, Home Care Association, Association of Directors of Adults Social Services (ADASS), and Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) Social Innovators Group

Two Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs) are collaborating on this pilot, East Midlands RRDN and North West RRDN.

If you operate outside of the two pilot regions, we will re-direct your expression of interest in Research to the regional EnRICH Lead for your area, who will contact you and support you with your research interest. Thank you.

The pilot for this scheme will cover the East Midlands and North West RDN regions

Recruiting Now!

Take some time to have a look at our Study Spotlight page to see examples of studies that are recruiting now, as well as some previous case studies you might be interested in.

Join Our Community!

For Home Care Research

If you’re interested in

Influencing or taking part in research
Connecting with researchers and current research in the sector
Learning about what research is and opportunities for yourself and your organisation
Shaping future practice through evidence
Continuing professional development through research
Promoting your organisation as a research active provider

Sign Up

Please complete the following short form to express an interest in joining the engagement portal.

We will email you instructions for joining the community.

You will then receive information about the current research opportunities in the home care sector and more information about starting the journey to becoming research active, including the benefits to you as a provider, researcher or member of the public or person drawing on home care services.

Support

Support to Researchers

Advice and Guidance for researchers about how to prepare and approach research studies in the home care sector

Support to Home Care Providers and Staff

Guidance for Providers about what research is and what it might mean to support research in home care; also what the benefits might be to you and your organisation from participating in research studies and being ‘research ready’.

Support to the Public and People Drawing on Services

Learn about what research might mean to you and your family and what role you can have in supporting research in home care and the opportunities available.

Further Information

Have a look at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), England’s biggest funder of health and care research and their School for Social Care Research.

The NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) supports participation in and recruitment to research studies in England. The RDN organises and supports the ENRICH network. This pilot Home Care Research Engagement Portal is aiming to do similar for the home care sector. It is supported through two Regional RDNs: East Midlands and North West.

There are existing Home Care Research Forums set up to discuss research ideas and projects and support home care providers in generating research in this sector, some of these have been involved in setting up this pilot portal:

Skills for Care Supporting the Adult Social Care sector

Home Care Association

Institute for Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM), Social Care Innovators Group

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