Dr Mark Wilberforce
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- mark.wilberforce@york.ac.uk
- +44 (0)1904 321297
- Social Policy Research Unit, Church Lane Building, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5ZF
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Mark is a social care researcher, with a particular interest in homecare and the workforce supporting older people. His recent work includes the Curious about Care platform which uses psychometric methods to promote values-based recruitment. Mark is also Director of the RSS Specialist Centre for Social Care (York & Partners), and the Curiosity Partnership, both of which seek to build capacity and capability for social care research. He is co-editor of the Journal of Long-Term Care, and a member of various funding committees. His earlier career was as a labour market economist in the civil service.
- PhD (Social Work), University of Manchester
- MSc (Economics and Social Policy), University of York
- BA (Economics and Politics), University of York
External roles
- Committee Member, NIHR 3 Schools Dementia Programme
- Committee Member, NIHR Local Authority Fellowships
- Specialty Lead for Social Care (Yorkshire & Humber Research Delivery Network)
- Co-editor, Journal of Long-Term Care
- Non-Executive Director, Homecare Workers' Group CIC