Health and Social Care Cluster

Description

The Health and Social Care Cluster investigates a diverse array of issues drawing on expertise from law, criminology, sociology and social work.

Research in the Health and Social Care Cluster focuses on three general themes:

• The political, legal, ethical and institutional contexts of health and social care—looking at areas such as professionals and professionalism, regulation and compliance, human rights, safeguarding, approaches to the reform of the health, social care and welfare systems, the relationship between practice and judgements, spirituality and virtues
• Care—particularly around chronic conditions and informal care within families, care in typical settings (care homes, own home, hospitals), as well as atypical settings (prisons and hostel accommodation) and the role of self-care and self-management;
• Marginalised communities in health and social care—particularly in relation to ethnicity, mental health (including people with dementia), disability, sexuality, self-neglect, homelessness, prisons

The Cluster provides a forum for members to exchange ideas, share information and support one another's research through collaboration and peer review, and acts as a catalyst for funding, outputs and impact.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham