Research theme: Population health and social care
Population Health
We help local authorities (LAs) to decide the best ways to provide services to promote health and wellbeing. We look at persistent problems such as child and young people health inequalities, impacts of multiple disadvantage, pollution, and sustainable social care, and emerging issues such as gambling, addiction and knife crime.
Our systems approach addresses multi-level risk factors and worsening inequalities within the context of organisational and financial constraints.
We are working with communities, health and social care practitioners, commissioners and local government to respond to their most pressing issues, and co-produce interventions designed for rapid application locally, and more widely across our region and beyond.
Social care
We work to identify and implement evidence-based approaches that improve social care services and outcomes.
Our research tackles long-standing challenges such as supporting people with dementia, reducing health inequalities linked to housing and mental illness, and improving access to care for people with limited informal support.
We also explore pressing and emerging issues like the integration of digital interventions, the impact of environmental and social conditions on care needs, and equity in service delivery.
Using a systems lens, we assess the costs, benefits, and feasibility of care models and guidelines, working with practitioners, commissioners, and communities to co-design solutions that can be rapidly tested and scaled across diverse settings.
