Dr Jane Marriott is working on constitutional rights to healthcare, human rights in care settings and older person abuse.
Karl Mason has been working with the Local Government Association (LGA) and the charity Research in Practice (Dartington Trust) in relation to Safeguarding Adults and Discriminatory Abuse policy and practice. Having been invited to join an advisory group consisting of national safeguarding adults board managers and chairs, he has co-authored a literature review on the subject, has written a briefing for practitioners and a webinar for the LGA and delivered three knowledge exchange workshops, a blog and a podcast for RIP in June/July 2022. He is currently working with academics in Bournemouth University to develop a bid to fund future work in this area.
Recent research, led by Prof Frank Keating, found that socially oriented recovery from mental ill-health was for men from African and Caribbean backgrounds bound up in intersecting questions of identity. More information about the study is available here.
Dr Serena Wright has worked as a co-investigator on a project funded by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, which critically explored ideas of trauma-informed care and practice and 'healthy' prisons for women. She was also part of a study led by Dr Emily Glorney and funded by The Disabilities Trust, which evaluated a Linkworker service for women with traumatic/acquired brain injury at HMP Drake Hall. Her most recent project was a longitudinal follow-up of 147 men and women serving life imprisonment for murder from a young age in England and Wales. The original study, undertaken in 2013/14, was published as a co-authored monograph entitled 'Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Trauma and Time' (2020, Palgrave Macmillan).
Professor Robert Jago, Dr Anna van der Gaag CBE, Professor Kostas Stathis, Dr Ivan Petaj, Dr Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Dr Juan Caceres Silva and Dr Michelle Webster conducted an investigation into the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to support regulatory decision making in complaints about nurses in the US, UK and Australia. This work also involved Professor Zubin Austin (University of Toronto) and Professor Ann Gallagher (University of Exeter). This project was funded by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and developed a prototype of an AI tool that if used by the regulators could improve the quality and consistency of decision-making in nurse regulation nationally and internationally.
Dr Niina Manninen has recently been studying Finland-based social care students’ moral virtues and how these are often intertwined with ethical dimensions of their religious beliefs. Further, she studied these students’ views on social justice to develop a related research-informed pedagogical model. These studies have been presented at international Association for Moral Education conferences.
Dr Rich Moth has been involved in several recent research projects related to social work, mental health and welfare policy/provision. He was part of a team studying the impact of austerity and welfare state transformation on access to mental health services and the benefits system in England (2016 – 2019) (see http://www.re-invest.eu/). This was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). He was also involved in a comparative study of the impact of neoliberal policy reform on social work practice in Switzerland and England funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2017-2020). He is currently lead researcher on a follow-up to the H2020 study: Mental Distress and Welfare State Transformation: Social Harms in the Mental Health and Benefits System, which critically examines the implications of the increasing integration of an active labour market policy agenda within statutory mental health services.
