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Health, Wellbeing & Social Care
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Academic Social Care Research Collaboration
Overview Working in partnership across Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Universities and funded by the NISCHR, the All Wales Academic Social Care Research Collaboration (ASCC) sought to strengthen the capacity of HEIs and their partner agencies to deliver on an agreed and
Research Team:
Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Dianne Seddon, Judith Phillips, Nick Andrews, Martin O'Neill (Cardiff University), Victoria Macfarlane, Luke Cowie (Cardiff University), Karel Williams (University of Manchester), Julie Froud, Paula Hyde, Sukhdev Johal, Catherine Robinson
Change in Alcohol Outlet Density and Alcohol-Related Harm to Population Health
Overview The research sought to directly address the NIHR commissioning brief by firstly developing a new method of measuring alcohol outlet density in Wales using Geographical Information System (GIS) methods which include a more realistic and robust measure of population
Research Team:
David Fone, Scott Orford (Cardiff University), Frank Dunstan, Chris Webster, Shin Lee, Narushige Shiode, Sarah Rodgers, Ronan Lyons
Evaluation of the Accommodation Needs of Rough Sleepers on Anglesey
Description This Council-led research project explored the multiple needs and risk factors presented by the rough sleeper population on Anglesey, and the extent to which these needs are matched by the current services provided by voluntary, private, and public sector
Research Team:
Martina Feilzer (Bangor University), Alexandra Plows (Bangor University), Bethan Judge, Fiona Stratford
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Swansea Night-Time Economy Co-ordinator
Description This project examined the role of a new kind of institutional actor in crime and disorder reduction, the ‘night-time economy co-ordinator’ (NTEC), appointed in Swansea and funded out of the Home Office Tackling Violent Crime Programme. The NTEC was appointed
Research Team:
Adam Edwards, Clair Wilkins
Grandparenthood in Bilingual Families: A Welsh Case Study
This project aimed to provide new understandings of the dynamic relationship between the generations in Welsh-English bilingual families in Wales. In particular, the research considered how the experience and enactment of relationships associated with being a grandparent
Research Team:
Sarah Harper, Robin Mann (Bangor University)
Improving the experience of dementia and enhancing active life: living well with dementia
Overview: This longitudinal cohort study, using a mixed methods approach, focuses on the potential for living well with dementia from the perspective of people with dementia and their primary carers. By living well, we mean maximising life satisfaction, reaching one's
Research Team:
Linda Clare, Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Alexandra Hillman (Swansea University), Josie Henley (Cardiff University)
Productive Margins
Overview Community engagement needs radical re-design. All too often decision-making is top-down and decision makers do not adequately engage, deeming ‘community engagement’ a passive exercise. Communities are often only invited to comment on decisions which have already
Research Team:
Martin Innes, Emma Renold (Cardiff University), Eva Elliott (Cardiff University), Gabrielle Ivinson (Aberdeen University)
Representing Communities: Developing the Creative Power of People to Improve Health and Well-being
Funding: £1.5 million The Project is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Communities, Cultures, Health and Wellbeing Research Grant. The aim of this project was to establish how community representations produced through creative arts practices (e.g
Research Team:
Gareth Williams, Eva Elliott (Cardiff University), Pete Seaman, Qulsom Frazil, Clare Barker, Roiya Saltus, Issie MacPhail, Joanna Skelt, Claire Mckechnie-Mason
Strong Communities Healthier People
Funding: £343,384.25 This Engagement project will build on a legacy of social science informed community-based research over the last 10 years in two of the Welsh Government’s Communities First Clusters. The aim is to build on these past and current research projects and
Research Team:
Gareth Williams, Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Eva Elliott (Cardiff University), Martin O'Neill (Cardiff University)
Civil Society Research Centre Projects
See a full list of our research projects funded under this centre between October 2014 and September 2019.
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