People

Juliette has 20 years of experience researching adult social care to inform policy and practice in England and the Global North. She is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE and a Senior Fellow of the NIHR School for Social Care Research. Juliette has worked closely with members of the public, practitioners and policymakers on many projects and advised various governmental and non-governmental bodies, including the Department of Health and Social Care, Social Care Wales, OECD, NICE and NIHR. Her research examines contemporary developments in social care, including the evaluation of service developments and innovations. Her current projects are evaluating digital care technologies and research-practice partnerships.

j.n.malley@lse.ac.uk

Cath is a Professor in the School of Health, Social Work and Sport within UCLan and co-director of the SOCRATES programme. She innovates in participation, activism and knowledge exchange with children and young people, and their allies, across the UK and Europe. She conducts co-research, particularly with marginalised children and young people which is focused on challenging discrimination and improving policy and practice. Working with a wide range of child and adult colleagues, she co-authors guidance to inspire social change. Her scholarship advance theories and methodologies for participation and citizenship. Her collaborative work with children and young people has led to impact on policy and practice internationally. 

clarkins@uclan.ac.uk

Mary is a Reader in Social Care at Kings College London and Lead of the SOCRATES programme at KCL. She is a leader in social work research and evaluation. She has led major projects on social work training, the impact of COVID-19 on practice, and the role of adult social care. Currently, she works on various projects, including those funded by the NIHR, and collaborates internationally on social care workforce issues. Baginsky is also involved in international collaborations and has presented her research at conferences worldwide, contributing significantly to the advancement of social work education, research, and practice.

mary.baginsky@kcl.ac.uk

Christine is Professor of Interpersonal Violence Prevention and Co-Director of the Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm. Christine is a nationally and internationally recognised expert in child and family welfare having led and managed over 20 research projects over the last 20 years.  

cabarter@uclan.ac.uk

Helen is an applied researcher at UCLan and co-lead of the SOCRATES programme, with 25 years’ experience of involving children and young people in research around issues that impact their lives. Helen has worked in the fields of child protection and children’s rights across the voluntary and statutory sectors, and academia. For the last 15 years, her research has particularly focused on children and young people’s experiences of abuse, their associated needs and service responses to these (including by social care), and supporting policy and practice development in this field. She also leads work on trauma-informed approaches to research and researcher wellbeing.

hlbeckett@uclan.ac.uk

Jennifer leads public involvement and is the involvement lead of the SOCRATES programme. Jennifer’s background is in public involvement, ethics, mental health law and the healthcare inspectorate. She chairs a Research Ethics Committee and is ethics advisor and trainer to a number of organisations. She sits on a number of funding and advisory panels and chairs an NHS ICB wellbeing board.

j.l.bostock@lse.ac.uk

Nicola has been a researcher for over 20 years.  Before that, she worked for several years supporting children and young people living in residential care away from home.   This included children with learning disabilities and looked after children and young people.  Since then, her research has mainly focussed on the needs and experiences of children and young people, particularly those who have experienced harm and abuse, and she has undertaken several large-scale evaluations of services for children and families.  More recently, her research has focussed on interventions aiming to prevent harm and abuse for children through school-based programmes.  As a children’s rights researcher, she supports the inclusion and participation of children and young people as co-researchers to impact research on issues that affect them.  She contributes to several projects across SOCRATES.

nfarrelly@uclan.ac.uk

José-Luis is Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at CPEC, LSE. A health and social care economist, José Luis specialises in ageing-related policies, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care systems and services.

j.fernandez@lse.ac.uk

Martin is Professor of Health and Social Care Policy at the LSE, based in the Health Policy Department. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow in CPEC at the LSE. Much of his work uses economic arguments and evidence to inform policy discussion and influence practice development.

M.Knapp@lse.ac.uk

Martha is a Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE and for the SOCRATES programme. She currently specialises in evaluations of health and social care programmes. Martha is a mixed-methods researcher and her professional background has spanned various areas of the non-profit sector. Martha holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Granada and the University of York. She received her BA degree in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies from Newcastle University.

Nicole is a Research Fellow at the NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit (HSCWRU), based in the Policy Institute and for the SOCRATES programme. At the Unit, Nicole worked on an NIHR SSCR-funded study on telecare/assistive technology and the UTOPIA study. Currently, as part of HSCWRU activities, she works on an evaluation of Nursing Associates and the Global Migration in the Health and Care Workforce Observatory project.  

nicole.steils@kcl.ac.uk 

Tamsin is Involvement Officer for SOCRATES programme based at UCLan. 

Jo provides project management for the project and deals with central administration and communications. As part of this, she works closely with the Public Advisory Group members and the individual project teams, as well as central SOCRATES Management Staff. She leads on SOCRATES’ network development work, including coordinating our newsletter and blog, along with supporting our range learning events and engagement activities. She is the Involvement Officer for CPEC so, more generally supports people to engage with the Centre’s research activities as public advisors.

Before SOCRATES she worked in variety of research support and project management roles, across programmes related to social equity, health and social care, and mental health within a number of different universities in the UK. Across her career, she has placed a strong focus on coproduction and lived experience involvement with research, and has worked particularly in areas related to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

Before her work in research management, Jo studied for an English degree at the University of Nottingham, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Justice and Education at the Institute of Education, UCL. 

Alongside her role on SOCRATES, she is the Involvement Officer for CPEC.

Louise is a research assistant at the University of Central Lancashire and is currently involved in a project focusing on young people's experiences of working with a young person's independent domestic violence advocate. Louise is also in her final year of a PhD which is exploring the narratives of victim/survivors and police investigators in cases of police perpetrated domestic abuse.  Previous projects include identifying best practice in multi-agency safeguarding hubs, trauma-informed research and the experiences of non-offending partners of people arrested for IIOC offences. Louise’s research interests are: violence against women and girls, domestic abuse, police culture and police misconduct.