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NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

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NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce

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9 April 2025

King's co-leads £5m investment into social care workforce research

New research partnership: ‘Care Work’ project

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4 April 2025

AI in Social Care Summit

Olivia Luijnenburg and Kritika Samsi were in Oxford

What is the social care implementation resource

3 April 2025

New tool supports implementation research in social care

Unit researcher Antonina Semkina co-led development of new guide

23 Apr

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Homelessness, Capacity & Executive Function: An Occupational Therapy lens

23 April 2025

Sophie Koehne; Kayleigh Reardon

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6 November 2024

Connecting with the Unit

We have added Bluesky to the ways you can stay in touch

26 March 2024

The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce Programme of Work

The Policy Research Unit announces seven new studies commencing in 2024

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29 July 2024

Registered nurses in adult social care – dissemination

A recording of Nicole Steils presenting findings from our recent study is available

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30 April 2024

Out-of-Hospital Care Models programme for people experiencing homelessness

Launch of major evaluation report led by Michelle Cornes and Michela Tinelli

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8 February 2024

New perspectives on hoarding behaviours... from psychology, law & social care

A recording and the slides from this event are available

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31 October 2023

Adult social care and gambling harms

What questions should Adult Social Care be asking to identify gambling harms?

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Social work, neglect and the renewal of 'poverty aware practice'