Membership - WM ADASS
Pete Jackson – Improvement Director
Mark Godfrey – Associate
Kathryn Hudson – Associate (Research)
Catherine Nolan – Associate & Lead for LDA Commissioning Network
Keymn Whervin – Associate and Chair of Coproduction Advisory Group
Sandra Simpson – Research Engagement Lead
Andrew Errington – Social Work Research Associate & Chair of Principal Social Work Network
Lynne Bowers – Associate (Workforce) & Lead for Principal Occupational Therapy Network
Paul Johnston – Associate & Lead for Commissioning Network
Membership - University of Birmingham
Robin Miller – Professor of Collaborative Learning in Health & Social Care
Catherine Needham – Professor in Public Policy and Public Management & Co-investigator ESRC Centre for Care
Patrick Hall – Embedded Research Fellow
Surrinder Bains – Research Champion (Inclusion & Diversity) Birmingham Voluntary Community Services
Alicia Ridout – Research Champion (Occupational Therapy)
Jane Clark – Research Champion (Occupational Therapy)
Aims and objectives
To facilitate the partnership between WM ADASS and University of Birmingham and to continue to develop a sustainable research culture and infrastructure for adult social care in the West Midlands. The group will aim to:
- Develop a WM social care research culture, capacity & infrastructure development plan.
- Co-ordinate, monitor, and report progress on actions and outcomes of the development plan to WM ADASS Branch.
- Develop research governance and policies for consideration by WM ADASS Branch.
- Facilitate partnership between universities, research bodies, local authorities, practitioners, and people with lived experience across the West Midlands region.
- Encourage a range of perspectives from directors, citizens, people with lived experience, social care practitioners, with particular emphasis on improving the inclusivity and diversity of perspectives, to inform the development of priorities for research in adult social care.
- Facilitate the identification of priorities for social care research through professional networks and communities, to inform and advise WM ADASS Branch and influence research partnerships.
- Provide a forum for exchange of ideas, discussion of challenges and development of solutions.
- To facilitate 2 social care research studies over the next 3 years that will build upon the early research experience in the region and support the expansion of research capabilities.
- Facilitate consistent approaches and good practice to build research capacity and culture.
- Connect with other regional health and social care research groups and national bodies.
- Bring more research funding for social care into West Midlands.
- Consider requests for engagement in new research initiatives until a new research governance process is agreed.