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NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

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NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce

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26 June 2025

Volunteers in Adult Social Care

Final report from Kalpa Kharicha and colleagues

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19 June 2025

Built for Zero: Community data driven solutions to end rough sleeping

Innovative practice in the London Borough of Brent

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17 June 2025

Unit work discussed at local authority safeguarding learning event

Jess Harris presented findings from the safeguarding, homelessness and self-neglect study

10 Sep

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Homelessness & multiple disadvantage: responses to address women's trauma

10 September 2025

Pippa Hockton; Carolin Hess

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6 November 2024

Connecting with the Unit

We have added Bluesky to the ways you can stay in touch

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9 April 2025

King's co-leads £5m investment into social care workforce research

New research partnership: ‘Care Work’ project

26 March 2024

The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce Programme of Work

The Policy Research Unit announces seven new studies commencing in 2024

What is the social care implementation resource

3 April 2025

New tool supports implementation research in social care

Unit researcher Antonina Semkina co-led development of new guide

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Informing policy debates on the health and social care workforce.

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Dementia Community Research Network engagement event