Nic Brimblecombe is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research mainly focuses on unpaid care, unmet need, and inequalties in care. Recent projects include studies of unmet need for services and the impact on carers, and barriers to support for younger carers. Other work to date has included studies of unpaid care and paid employment, young adult carers, attitudes to providing care, and support for unpaid carers.
James is currently working on the Department of Health-funded Quality and Outcomes Research Unit programme. He is lead researcher on the Engagement strand.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/pssru/pssru-research/caiels-james.html
J.F.Cartagena-Farias@lse.ac.uk
Javiera is an economist that has worked across a spectrum of policy areas using several micro-econometrics techniques and policy evaluation methodologies. Based at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE, her research focuses on geographical inequalities in health, wellbeing and social care, and the economic evaluation of social care services. She is currently working on the analysis of local authority records to assess the effect of prevention strategies in long-term care and employs underused data to help provide information about the pressures facing the publicly-funded social care system in England.
Michael is Associate Professorial Research Fellow within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. He has worked at local, regional and national levels undertaking and managing research. His research interests include mental health, dementia, public involvement in research, and arts and care. Michael also has an interest in the interfaces between research, policy and practice and issues of implementation.
Adelina is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE and Director of the Global Observatory on Long-term Care (GOLTC). Her main research interests are economic aspects of care, treatment and support of people with dementia, and long-term care financing, both in the UK and globally. She has extensive experience in developing simulation models of the future resources required to address long-term care needs and needs arising from dementia.
Jacqueline Damant is a Research Fellow within the Care and Policy Evaluation Centre at LSE. Her main research interests include the digital inclusion of older people, integrated care systems, and the quality of services of residential care for older adults.
Prior to joining the LSE, Jacqueline worked as a Research Nurse in clinical epidemiology at University College London and the Westminster Primary Care Trust. Jacqueline has also worked as a Registered Nurse in acute psychiatry, neonatal intensive care (Montreal, Canada), geriatric (Tuebingen, German) units and in rehabilitation services for older adults at a community hospital (Oxford, UK).
Emily is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Emily carries out multi- and inter-disciplinary research to understand behaviours, expectations and experiences related to demographic phenomena and their consequences in low- and middle-income settings. Concern for equity underpins all her research.
Katerina is a Research Associate at the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) and the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent. Her research interests are in the areas of applied microeconometrics, health economics, competition and regulation.
Daniel is ASCRU’s Administrator. Daniel has previously held positions as an administrator for the LSE Directorate and as a project administrator/personal assistant at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London. He has a degree in Biochemistry (BSc Hons) from the University of Nottingham.
Chris is a Professor of Social Care in the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Faculty of Health and Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. For over 30 years he has been involved in research with people with learning disabilities, focusing on the pervasive inequalities that people experience and evaluating the impact of policies and service practices on people’s lives.
Chris previously worked at the Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester, and at Lancaster University, and was previously Co-Director of the the Public Health England Learning Disabilities Observatory.
Bo is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow based within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Bo’s research focuses on the utilisation and financing of long-term care for older people. His research interests include: social determinants of long-term care utilisation, inequality in unmet long-term care needs, life outcomes of unmet needs, and healthy ageing from the life-course perspective. Bo uses a variety of quantitative methods (econometric analysis, structural equation modelling, and machine learning) in his research.
Gintare is a health economist within CHSS and PSSRU. Her current research interests include youth unemployment and consequences on health, well-being and poverty later in life; substitution between formal and informal care; determinants of delayed transfers of care; Better Care Fund evaluation; alcohol consumption habits in Eastern and Western Europe; health derived optimism measure in Europe.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/chss/staff/research/Malisauskaite.html
Joaquin is a Research Assistant within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE and a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. His research explores the effects of disabilities and related policies on well-being, focusing on individuals, families, and caregivers. With a background in economics, he has experience in policy evaluation, data analysis, and teaching, particularly in Chile’s welfare programs and initiatives.
Marcello is a Senior Research Associate within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Marcello was based at the University of Manchester from 2018 until 2023. Prior to this, he was a full-time researcher at the Health Economics Group based at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.
Marcello research fields are the economics of health and social care and the policy evaluation of service delivery and organisation. Marcello specialises in studying: the public costs, the distributive implications and the targeting efficiency of health and long-term care policies; the personal costs that disability brings in later life; the empirical (ex-ante/ex-post) evaluation of policies aiming at influencing (un)healthy behaviours, health and social care services design, financing, delivery, integration and utilisation; and improving methodological approach to mixed methods research.
Madeline is Research Assistant at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent. She previously worked as a qualified Occupational Therapist in social care and mental health services. Madeline was awarded the prestigious NIHR Academy Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in 2019. The MA research study ‘Reporting harassment and sexual assault by LGBTQ+ staff and students’ was completed during the fellowship and presented at the British Sociological Association Conference 2023. Madeline’s work involves research in marginalized groups, welfare state, social care, older people, mental health, gender and sexuality. Her research has used feminist theory approach, queer methodology, explored gender equality, diversity and social justice.
Olena is a joint Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics in CHSS and the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent. Her research interests are in applied economics on the interrelation between individual health and informal care behaviour and labour market outcomes, policy evaluations of health care interventions and other government initiatives.
Chiara is a Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. Her current work focuses on dementia care, informal care, and social/long-term care. She specializes in qualitative research methods, collaborative approaches such as co-creation and participatory action research, and the design and evaluation of complex interventions, particularly involving vulnerable groups.
Amritpal Rehill is a Research Officer within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. With expertise in unpaid care, dementia, and econometrics, he focuses on the economic impacts of dementia and unpaid caregiving. Holding an MSc in Statistics and a BSc in Mathematics and Economics from LSE, he is pursuing a PhD in Health Policy, exploring carer identification and dynamics.
Sam is a research officer based within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE. He is a qualified social worker with over ten years’ experience managing and working in adult social care services in hospitals and the community. He is interested in the use of machine learning and natural-language processing.
Sarthak is a PhD candidate in Health Economics and Health Policy at LSE and a social data scientist specialising in applying quantitative and computational techniques to answer social science questions. Their research focuses on understanding coordination between healthcare providers and social care authorities in the context of integration of health and social care in the UK. Using administrative data, Sarthak investigates social networks involved in planning discharge for older patients and explores their impact on health outcomes.
Sarthak is also a Research Assistant within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE, They began working with CPEC during their MSc in Applied Social Data science from LSE, following which they have taken up a full-time role working on projects like London LA market reports, and analysis of lifetime costs in social care etc.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/health-policy/people/PhDs/Sarthak-Saluja
Kritika Samsi is a Senior Research Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce at King’s College London. She has worked in dementia care research for over 10 years using qualitative methodology to investigate a wide range of topics. She has also conducted studies related to the social care workforce.
Hansel Teo is a Research Officer at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. He joined the PSSRU in October 2021. He is trained as a microeconomist and works on projects in both the ASCRU and RESSCW units. More broadly, Hansel is interested in applying both empirical and theoretical analysis to study issues in health and social care as well as social insurance policy.
Michela is an Associate Professor Research Fellow within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE, and a health and care economist. Her research interests are centred around two main areas: economic evaluation for adult social care, including hard-to-reach populations with complex needs, and development and application of choice modelling and contingent valuation to social care.
Lizzie is Research Officer at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. She is currently working on the the Department of Health, Policy Research Programme funded national programme evaluation of the new models of care Vanguard programme in England. Since joining the unit in 2007, she has worked on a number of projects exploring personalisation in health and social care. Most notably, she worked on the Personal Health Budgets Evaluation and its bolt on substance misuse evaluation, both of which were funded by the Department of Health. Lizzie has also been involved in the Ascot Feedback Intervention Study (AFIS) which examined whether structured feedback about quality of life can have an impact on care home residents’ daily lives.
