Jose-Luis is a health and social care economist specialising in ageing-related policies, the analysis of health and social care funding systems, service productivities, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care services. In addition to directing ASCRU2, he directs the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE and the International Long-term care Policy Network. He was assistant director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Economics of Social and Health Care (ESCHCRUII), and is part of the Management Team for ESHCRU III. He has contributed to key health and social care evaluations.
Karen is Director (Fixed Term) and Senior Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. Karen’s research interests include costing methodologies, quality and outcomes in health and social care and economic evaluations.
Stephen is a social and health care economist with a particular interest in the English care homes market for older people. Stephen’s recent research includes: analysing the impact of competition and its effects on price, quality and closure; explaining care home fees and differences between private and public payers; analysing the impact of funding reforms on the care homes market; and examining the impact of staffing on care home quality.
Jennifer co-leads ASCRU2’s public involvement and steers involvement across the unit. 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. She sits on the editorial board of Health Expectations and has worked for the medico-legal and regulatory inspectorate and assessment for the CQC, RCGP and currently for the Royal College of Surgeons. Jennifer’s interest in social care comes from living with a complex long term condition and caring for parents with complex health and social care needs.
Ruth is a Professorial Research Fellow within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Her research interests include the economic, health and social policy implications of individual and population ageing with a particular focus on financial provision for later life, long-term care funding for older people, and the extra costs of disability in later life.
Juliette is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Her research interests include the measurement of outcomes and quality in long-term care, performance and quality of long-term care systems, regulation of long-term care and financing of long-term care systems.
Raphael is Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE and Deputy Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Economics of Social and Health Care (ESHCRU III). His research interests focus on financing long-term care, care for older people, projection modelling, and costs and outcomes for dementia.
Anji is Centre Manager for the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE, and Finance and Impact Manager for the NIHR School for Social Care Research. She manages administration for ASCRU2.
