Patrick is an Embedded Research Fellow, working closely with West Midlands ADASS to facilitate research engagement across Adult Social Care departments.
He has been working in and thinking about social care for nearly two decades. He is the co-author of ‘Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations’ with Catherine Needham which tracked the development of adult social care policy in the devolved administrations. He is a former fellow of The King’s Fund and Demos.
He recently completed his thesis ‘The Ideas and Institutions of Adult Social Care Commissioning’, which explores the tensions between key paradigms of adult social care and their impact on practice. His research interests are the history of social care, realist cultural theory and male carers.