Creating Care Partnerships Evaluation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing Research Practice Partnerships to deliver novel, sustainable collaborations between adult social care research and practice in the UK.
IRAS ID
300848
Contact name
Juliette Malley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
London School of Economics and Political Science
Duration of Study in the UK
4 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
There are many challenges delivering social care that meets the needs of people who use care and support and their families and friends. Research has the potential to play a bigger role in improving these services. The purpose of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate an approach called Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in adult social care. RPPs are long-term collaborations between researchers and people working in social care that focus on doing and using research in practice. This approach has been tried and tested in the US, Australia and New Zealand with promising results.
The study will be based in care homes, as care homes face particular challenges to doing and using research - this has been brought into the spotlight by the current COVID crisis. Important work is already underway in care homes to build support for producing and using research. However, this work has not always made a big difference to how research is done or whether it is used to improve the experiences of people who use care and support. The study will create three RPPs between researchers and three providers in different parts of England. It will also seek to learn from these RPPs by conducting a rigorous evaluation of the implementation of the RPP model in the three sites. The evaluation will investigate the impact of the partnerships on a range of outcomes including building research capacity, informing decision making in adult social care and preparation of joint research bids.
The LSE team is responsible for delivering the evaluation component of the CCP project. In this application the REC is asked to review only the evaluation component of the project.
REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/PR/1612
Date of REC Opinion
22 Dec 2021
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion