THE ALL WALES ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL CARE COLLABORATION BLOG
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School of Social Care Research Annual Conference 2013: London School of Economics and Political Science:
27th march 2013 ASCC attended the 4th School of Social Care Research Conference
(SSCR) at the London School of Economics.
The School was originally established
in 2009 via funding from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR)
and today is one of the leading funders into adult social care practice in
England, and aims to improve adult social care practice in England through
conducting and commissioning research.
The welcome and introduction to the conference was provided by Professor
Martin Knapp Director of SSCR who provided an overview of the School
achievements to date with over 53 research studies commissioned and of their
developing links with practice and policy.
The first morning plenary was provided by Think Local Act Personal
( http://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/
) which is a national multi sector agency aimed at improving adult social care
in the UK. This presentation addressed a very salient issue in the
field of social care at the moment, that of
personal budgets for older people. Detail of the presentation can be
found here: http://bit.ly/ZCnpDP
The second of the mornings presentation was a fascinating
exploration of the problems and potential of user controlled research by
Professor Peter Beresford from Brunel University. As the name suggests
“User Controlled” research poses particular challenges to more traditional,
particularly positivist, approaches to research
which tend to prioritise and valorise the knowledge and perspective of
the professional and academic. Professor
Beresford argued that there was a need to fundamentally challenge traditional
approaches to research but to do so within a robust methodology. A more
detailed exploration of Professor Beresford’s presentation can be found
here: http://bit.ly/Zb8mRz
The afternoon parallel sessions covered a number of research
initiatives supported by the SSCR. For
example Marcus Jebson from the University of Bristol produced his findings of
the social process involved in the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards process
(DOLS) This is particularly of interest to people who are working in the field
of elderly care and is a field that tends to be characterised by uncertainty
and lack of clarity. A more detailed account of the study can be found here: http://bit.ly/12n14hh
One paper I found particularly interesting, based on my
experiences of participatory film making, was presented by Dr Andrea Capstick
from the University of Bradford who has
just commenced a project exploring the use of participatory video production
with people with dementia. This
presentation posed some interesting
questions in relation to producing narrative with people with dementia which I
am sure will lead to some interesting findings for this research. More details can be found at: http://bit.ly/17fN6l8
There were a number of different papers covering various
aspects of social care and for those of you with access to Twitter if you use
the hashtag #SSCR13 you can find links to resources and links to outlines of
many of the other papers.
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