Support to Researchers

This site aims to provide information, access to resources and opportunity for Researchers to engage with the Home Care sector for knowledge exchange, a platform to promote research study proposals and invite participants from within this sector. 

The site is intended to support researchers when engaging with Home Care, which is a vastly different sphere to NHS, Care Home, Local Authority, and other Community based social care provisions. It will help provide information to enable researchers to engage well, tips on supporting providers with resources and training to encourage organisational research awareness, readiness, and activity. Understanding and collaboration with the social care workforce and users of Home Care service engagement is key to good research. Support will enable researchers to set up and run studies effectively and collaboratively in community-based Home Care; it provides opportunities for users of service and their families to try new things, and for staff to learn about research.