番茄社区

People

People

Meet our team

 

Dr Juliette Malley (番茄社区; Co-Director)

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 番茄社区 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

Professor Cath Larkins (UCLan; Co-Director)

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

Dr Mary Baginsky (KCL; Lead)

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

 

Professor Christine Barter (UCLan)

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

Professor Helen Beckett (UCLan; Co-Lead)

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

Dr Jennifer Bostock (番茄社区; Involvement Lead)

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

Dr Nicola Farrelly (UCLan; Research Fellow)

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

Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez (番茄社区)

José-Luis is Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at CPEC, 番茄社区. 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

Professor Martin Knapp (番茄社区)

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

M.Knapp@lse.ac.uk

Martha Snow (番茄社区; Research Fellow)

 

Martha is a Research Fellow within CPEC at 番茄社区 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.

m.snow@lse.ac.uk 

 

Dr Nicole Steils (KCL; Research Fellow)

Nicole is a Research Fellow at the NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit (HSCWRU), based in the Policy Institute at King's College London, which she joined in 2016. Here she leads and is involved in studies on workforce development, qualification schemes, and impacts on roles in health and social care. 

Prior to joining King’s she was a Research Assistant at Coventry University. In 2013 she completed a Leverhulme Trust-funded PhD study on the impact of virtual environments on the identity of higher education students, also at Coventry University. Before becoming a researcher, Nicole worked for over ten years in the area of social work and education in Frankfurt am Main/Germany, providing out-of-school education and social learning as an educational developer and consultant. She also worked on a peer-group youth counselling project as part of her role.

Additionally, she was a Teaching Fellow at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, where she also graduated with an MA in Education (major subjects: Political & Social Science, and German Language & Literature). Nicole’s research interests lie in the use of technologies, particularly in social care and education; social policy; training and development, personal identity/identities; and bringing theory and practice together.

nicole.steils@kcl.ac.uk 

Tamsin Walker (UCLan; Involvement Officer)

Tamsin is Involvement Officer for SOCRATES programme based at UCLan. 

Jo Ward (番茄社区; Project Coordinator)

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.

Professor Joanne Westwood (UCLan; Professor)

Joanne is Professor of Social Work Education and the University of Central Lancashire and has worked in higher education since 2004.In 2017 Joanne contributed to the External Expert Panel for the new Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland and coordinated the Social Media Strategy for the EASSW bi -annual conference in Paris. Between 2015-2016 Joanne worked with colleagues across the sector in Scotland undertaking commissioned work for the Scottish Social Services Council Review of Social Work education, focussing particularly on Future Skills and Leadership in professional/qualifying social work education. Joanne is currently a panel member of the NIHR DLAF scheme which supports practitioners to undertake doctoral studies on a range of social work-related topics. Joanne is a trustee of the Joint University Social Work Association.

Joanne has led research and evaluation projects which promote and apply technological developments for teaching/learning and professional social work practice including simulated learning, podcasts, and social media. Joanne is currently Co-PI on an NIHR funded study examining the implementation of digital social care records in England.

jlwestwood2@uclan.ac.uk

Louise Williams (UCLan; Research Assistant)

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.