
Dr Monica Leverton
Research Associate
Biography
Dr Monica Leverton joined the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health & Social Care Workforce in December 2020. She is Principal Investigator of the NIHR SSCR-funded ‘DemChamp’ study, looking to define and develop the role of Dementia Champions in the homecare sector. Monica is also a co-investigator on the NIHR Three Schools in Dementia project – Forward with Dementia – a collaborative study between researchers from King’s College London, University College London, and the University of Newcastle, as well as an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Research Fellow, focusing on social care research priorities in South London. She also chairs the quarterly Home Care Research Forum, attended by national and international groups of stakeholders interested in home care research, and is an editorial board member for BMC Geriatrics.
Monica’s area of expertise is dementia care, completing her Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence PhD at UCL in 2021, which explored homecare for people living with dementia using a qualitative ethnographic approach. This work informed the development of a coproduced training and support programme for the homecare workforce. As a qualitative researcher, her methodological interests are innovative ethnographic and visual methods, with the aim of making research more accessible to audiences beyond academia.
Monica has a background in psychology and has worked on several large mental health research trials across the NHS, University College London and Queen Mary University of London. She has also conducted research within the Mental Health Policy Research Unit at UCL, including studying early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health care and service use. She has taught and supervised Clinical Mental Health MSc students, focusing on qualitative research methods and ethical practice.
Monica Leverton: ORCID iD
Research

Volunteers in Adult Social Care (VASC): An evaluation of the national volunteer responders scheme
Evaluating an online system that aims to ‘match’ potential volunteers with care providers and organisations who wish to recruit more volunteers.
Project status: Ongoing

Developing the role of Dementia Champions in the homecare sector
Defining, refining and evolving the role.
Project status: Ongoing

Employing Personal Assistants during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for social care practice
What happened to people employing their own care workers or Personal Assistants (PAs) during the Coronavirus pandemic?
Project status: Ongoing

Forward with dementia
Supporting people living with dementia and carers to live well after a dementia diagnosis and helping people in social care who are working with them.
Project status: Ongoing

Social care Personal Assistants in a COVID era [PA-3]
This study of a sample of Personal Assistants is exploring what the pandemic's enduring impact has been for them.
Project status: Ongoing

NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London: Social Care Theme
Researchers at HSCWRU are working on the Social Care theme as part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London.
News
Celebrating the King's Parliamentary Research Programme at the House of Lords
Unit researcher Dr Monica Leverton has been working on a Policy Research Translation project

At the Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology 2023
King's researchers were a strong presence at this year's conference at UEA

At the NIHR School for Social Care Research annual conference
Unit researchers were a strong presence at the conference – held at The Law Society

At Alzheimer's Disease International
Monica Leverton was part of a panel looking to the future of care

'Having time and space to reflect is a rare opportunity'
New Interventions for Independence in Dementia Study – putting it into practice

Events

Home Care Research Forum September 2023
Cat Forward, King's College London. Mark Wilberforce, University of York.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum May 2023
Dementia Champions in homecare. Supporting continence care.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum September 2022
Mouth and teeth care. Forward with dementia.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum February 2023
Care initiatives & homecare reviews. Human resource management during COVID.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum May 2022
Looking at the impacts of COVID-19.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
Research priorities in homecare for older people.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
COVID-19, Personal Assistants and Individual Employers. Incontinence-associated dermatitis.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
Needs of home care workers. 360-degree view on adult social care.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
Home care in the time of COVID-19 and beyond.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research

Volunteers in Adult Social Care (VASC): An evaluation of the national volunteer responders scheme
Evaluating an online system that aims to ‘match’ potential volunteers with care providers and organisations who wish to recruit more volunteers.
Project status: Ongoing

Developing the role of Dementia Champions in the homecare sector
Defining, refining and evolving the role.
Project status: Ongoing

Employing Personal Assistants during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for social care practice
What happened to people employing their own care workers or Personal Assistants (PAs) during the Coronavirus pandemic?
Project status: Ongoing

Forward with dementia
Supporting people living with dementia and carers to live well after a dementia diagnosis and helping people in social care who are working with them.
Project status: Ongoing

Social care Personal Assistants in a COVID era [PA-3]
This study of a sample of Personal Assistants is exploring what the pandemic's enduring impact has been for them.
Project status: Ongoing

NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London: Social Care Theme
Researchers at HSCWRU are working on the Social Care theme as part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London.
News
Celebrating the King's Parliamentary Research Programme at the House of Lords
Unit researcher Dr Monica Leverton has been working on a Policy Research Translation project

At the Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology 2023
King's researchers were a strong presence at this year's conference at UEA

At the NIHR School for Social Care Research annual conference
Unit researchers were a strong presence at the conference – held at The Law Society

At Alzheimer's Disease International
Monica Leverton was part of a panel looking to the future of care

'Having time and space to reflect is a rare opportunity'
New Interventions for Independence in Dementia Study – putting it into practice

Events

Home Care Research Forum September 2023
Cat Forward, King's College London. Mark Wilberforce, University of York.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum May 2023
Dementia Champions in homecare. Supporting continence care.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum September 2022
Mouth and teeth care. Forward with dementia.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum February 2023
Care initiatives & homecare reviews. Human resource management during COVID.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum May 2022
Looking at the impacts of COVID-19.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
Research priorities in homecare for older people.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
COVID-19, Personal Assistants and Individual Employers. Incontinence-associated dermatitis.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
Needs of home care workers. 360-degree view on adult social care.
Please note: this event has passed.

Home Care Research Forum
Home care in the time of COVID-19 and beyond.
Please note: this event has passed.