
Caroline Norrie
Senior Research Fellow
Biography
Caroline is a Senior Research Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce. She has over fifteen years’ experience of working in health and social care research. She has investigated a wide range of areas including care homes, gambling-related harms, nursing and social care workforce, adult safeguarding, inter-professional working and international professional migration.
She is principal investigator (PI) on an NIHR study which is developing a question for identifying individuals affected by gambling harms and piloting it in three LAs. Caroline has led on several studies about gambling harms including implications for vulnerable adults and migrants. (See portfolio of gambling studies.)
Caroline is currently PI on a study exploring the awareness and attractiveness of Occupational Health careers. She was co-investigator on an NIHR study exploring catering and cleaning staff working in care homes during COVID-19 - experiences and policy implications. She also recently contributed to a series of studies about social care Personal Assistants’ work, including during the pandemic; and an international comparison of care home policies in response to COVID-19.
Caroline is also Deputy Lead of the Social Care Theme of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) in South London; Senior Fellow of the NIHR School for Social Care Research; Advisor (Social Care Lead) for NIHR, Research Design Service (RDS) London; HSCWRU PCIE Advisory Group Lead; Convenor of the HSCWRU International seminar series; and Supervisor for MA Public Health dissertations.
Previously Caroline worked at St George’s, University of London.
Caroline Norrie: ORCID iD | Research Profile at King's
Research

Social science and Urban public health institute
Working with collaborators around the theme of urban public health

Research on Gambling Harms Group
Research studies focusing on gambling and potential related harms

Meaningful volunteer involvement in adult social care (ASC): Perspectives from diverse ASC providers, key informants, and evaluation of the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders scheme
Evaluating volunteering in adult social care (ASC) within the ‘NHS and Care Volunteer Responders’ scheme
Project status: Ongoing

Developing a question to identify gambling harms to individuals or affected others and piloting it in three local authorities
We will test a question that we hope will enable people identified as affected by gambling harms to help to get the support they need.
Project status: Completed

Exploring "what works" in creating infrastructures and engagement methods for people with lived experience within public health, health and social care, and addiction research
Infrastructures and engagement methods for people with lived experience within public health, health and social care, and addiction research.
Project status: Completed

Gambling-related harm among recent migrant communities in the UK: Responses to a 21st century urban phenomenon
This project investigated migrant gambling in the urban settings of Leeds and London.
Project status: Completed

Examining the nature of gambling-related harm for adults at risk
This project examined the incidence of gambling-related harm for adults at risk.
Project status: Completed

The other keyworkers in care homes: Implications of including domestic staff in social care workforce strategies and practices relating to COVID-19 recovery
Housekeeping staff in care homes – cleaners, those working in kitchens, laundries, maintenance – are often forgotten but are the backbone of many care homes.
Project status: Completed

To what extent does GamCare initial assessment data provide insights into factors associated with help-seeking?
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of client assessment data from GamCare – the UK’s largest support provider for problem gamblers.
Project status: Completed

Personal Assistants and Personal Budgets: Describing this emergent group and its relationship to the wider social care and health workforce [PA-1]
Reaching a better understanding of the Personal Assistant role to inform policymakers and the wider social care sector.
Project status: Completed
News
Volunteers in Adult Social Care
Interim report from Kalpa Kharicha and colleagues

What are the intrinsic rewards of working in Occupational Health?
New article from one of two OH studies at the Unit

At HSR UK Conference 2024
Ian Kessler, Caroline Norrie, Jess Harris and Annette Boaz were in Oxford

Southwest London ICS Digital Fellowship
Caroline Norrie reports on fellowship opportunity

Expanding the concept of 'ageing in place' to include 'dying in place'
Professor Linda Yin-King Lee, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, visited the Unit

At the NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference 2024
The Unit was a strong presence at the annual conference in Birmingham

At ARC South London's Knowledge Exchange Event
Caroline Norrie and Antonina Semkina represented the Unit

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

Unit research feeds into consultations on gambling policy and practice
Caroline Norrie and Cat Forward have responded to calls from NICE, the London Assembly, and DHSC

Involving community groups in the research process
Antonina Semkina and Caroline Norrie were at an event organised by Mabadiliko CIC
Events

Gambling-related harms seminar: Adult social care and gambling harms
Professor Heather Wardle, University of Glasgow
Please note: this event has passed.

Care Poverty: When older people’s care needs remain unmet
Professor Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Please note: this event has passed.

Experiences of people affected by dementia from diverse backgrounds in South Africa
Dr Adele Van Wyk, NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: Money and mental health
Chris Lees, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: Women and gambling harms
Kelsey Beninger, Sharon Collard, and Dominique Webb
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: May 2021
Presentations by Dr Heather Wardle and Dr Emma Ryan - Chair: Dr Emily Finch
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: November 2021
Dr Steve Sharman – Gambling and links to suicide.
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: September 2021
Conversation with Frankie Graham and other experts by experience of Betknowmore gambling support charity on lived experience of Gambling harms.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research

Social science and Urban public health institute
Working with collaborators around the theme of urban public health

Research on Gambling Harms Group
Research studies focusing on gambling and potential related harms

Meaningful volunteer involvement in adult social care (ASC): Perspectives from diverse ASC providers, key informants, and evaluation of the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders scheme
Evaluating volunteering in adult social care (ASC) within the ‘NHS and Care Volunteer Responders’ scheme
Project status: Ongoing

Developing a question to identify gambling harms to individuals or affected others and piloting it in three local authorities
We will test a question that we hope will enable people identified as affected by gambling harms to help to get the support they need.
Project status: Completed

Exploring "what works" in creating infrastructures and engagement methods for people with lived experience within public health, health and social care, and addiction research
Infrastructures and engagement methods for people with lived experience within public health, health and social care, and addiction research.
Project status: Completed

Gambling-related harm among recent migrant communities in the UK: Responses to a 21st century urban phenomenon
This project investigated migrant gambling in the urban settings of Leeds and London.
Project status: Completed

Examining the nature of gambling-related harm for adults at risk
This project examined the incidence of gambling-related harm for adults at risk.
Project status: Completed

The other keyworkers in care homes: Implications of including domestic staff in social care workforce strategies and practices relating to COVID-19 recovery
Housekeeping staff in care homes – cleaners, those working in kitchens, laundries, maintenance – are often forgotten but are the backbone of many care homes.
Project status: Completed

To what extent does GamCare initial assessment data provide insights into factors associated with help-seeking?
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of client assessment data from GamCare – the UK’s largest support provider for problem gamblers.
Project status: Completed

Personal Assistants and Personal Budgets: Describing this emergent group and its relationship to the wider social care and health workforce [PA-1]
Reaching a better understanding of the Personal Assistant role to inform policymakers and the wider social care sector.
Project status: Completed
News
Volunteers in Adult Social Care
Interim report from Kalpa Kharicha and colleagues

What are the intrinsic rewards of working in Occupational Health?
New article from one of two OH studies at the Unit

At HSR UK Conference 2024
Ian Kessler, Caroline Norrie, Jess Harris and Annette Boaz were in Oxford

Southwest London ICS Digital Fellowship
Caroline Norrie reports on fellowship opportunity

Expanding the concept of 'ageing in place' to include 'dying in place'
Professor Linda Yin-King Lee, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, visited the Unit

At the NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference 2024
The Unit was a strong presence at the annual conference in Birmingham

At ARC South London's Knowledge Exchange Event
Caroline Norrie and Antonina Semkina represented the Unit

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

Unit research feeds into consultations on gambling policy and practice
Caroline Norrie and Cat Forward have responded to calls from NICE, the London Assembly, and DHSC

Involving community groups in the research process
Antonina Semkina and Caroline Norrie were at an event organised by Mabadiliko CIC
Events

Gambling-related harms seminar: Adult social care and gambling harms
Professor Heather Wardle, University of Glasgow
Please note: this event has passed.

Care Poverty: When older people’s care needs remain unmet
Professor Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Please note: this event has passed.

Experiences of people affected by dementia from diverse backgrounds in South Africa
Dr Adele Van Wyk, NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: Money and mental health
Chris Lees, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: Women and gambling harms
Kelsey Beninger, Sharon Collard, and Dominique Webb
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: May 2021
Presentations by Dr Heather Wardle and Dr Emma Ryan - Chair: Dr Emily Finch
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: November 2021
Dr Steve Sharman – Gambling and links to suicide.
Please note: this event has passed.

Gambling-related harms seminar: September 2021
Conversation with Frankie Graham and other experts by experience of Betknowmore gambling support charity on lived experience of Gambling harms.
Please note: this event has passed.