As the new Director of the Unit, I am proud to take over the leadership of an important and thriving contributor to the health and social care research landscape. I have admired the work Jill and the team have been doing over the last 20 years and it’s a real honour to be entrusted to take the work forward. We will continue to conduct high quality research to support the health and social care workforce. While new research is sometimes needed, we will continue to spot opportunities to make use of the large body of past research conducted by the Unit. We will also seek out opportunities to collaborate and connect with others with shared research interests, including the other Policy Research Units.
— Professor Annette Boaz, from her Director's Report
08 September 2024
Unit Annual Report 2023
A year of transitions at the Unit
The Unit’s Annual Report 2023 is published today.
It provides an overview of our research studies and lists our publications from the year. It also details our engagement with patients, service users and family carers, our knowledge exchange activities, and the Unit’s wide array of seminar series.
For the Unit, 2023 was a year of transitions. We moved toward the end of the 2019-2023 NIHR Policy Research Unit contract and generated proposals for our successful bid for renewal (2024-2028).
And in October 2023, Professor Annette Boaz became the new Director of the Unit – following a period of interim leadership under Professor Ian Kessler – succeeding Professor Jill Manthorpe, the Unit Director since 2001 who retired in spring 2023. Jill is now Professor Emerita of Social Work at King’s. Today’s publication contains personal contributions from both Directors.
Professor Boaz, who came to King’s from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has since been joined by Professor Ann-Marie Towers, who became Deputy Director of the Unit in September 2024, arriving at King’s from the University of Kent.
The Annual Report 2023 was compiled and edited by Hannah Miyanji and Kritika Samsi.
This publication
Miyanji, H. & Samsi, K. (eds) (2024) The Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit Annual Report 2023, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London.
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