Social Care Capacity Development Programme

Introduction

ARC West Midlands is one of 15 ARCs nationwide to have been awarded £260,000 to grow social care research capacity in the region.

This funding will support a two-year programme of work to encourage and support more research engagement with social care. This will build on our extensive work already being carried out in the region with various partners.

For more details of these projects, or ARC WM engagement with social care, please contact Professor Robin Miller, Social Care Theme Lead: r.s.miller@bham.ac.uk

Projects

Key projects within the programme are:

An embedded researcher who works across the University of Birmingham and West Midlands Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to build a better infrastructure to coordinate and plan for adult social care research in the region.

Two research champions who will encourage colleagues and their organisations to consider opportunities for social care research and to develop the associated skills, knowledge and capacity. These will focus on research by occupational therapists and by voluntary and community organisations within black and minority ethnic communities.