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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.
In this study we will create a decision support tool that aims to help older people make decisions about paying for social care.
This study will develop a learning package to enable specialist support workers to better engage older people with mental health needs in social care.
This study aims to explore the role of complex social care systems in delayed transfers of care.
To develop and evaluate a regional capacity building network: facilitating greater understanding, use and production of research in adult social care.
The project is developing a situational judgement test to assess the person-centredness of domiciliary care workers.
This study is testing a service improvement approach from healthcare in which people using and providing a service co-design changes.
Investigating the preferences and decisions of older self-funders of community social care as they navigate the system.
This study aims to understand how support workers help older adults with mental health needs to accept and receive social care.
How can we translate a person-centredness score into something meaningful for understanding service quality?
A study to explore the unique contribution of social workers to community mental health teams.