Dr Monica Leverton is a Research Fellow in the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health & Social Care Workforce. Her areas of expertise are in homecare for older people and people affected by dementia, using primarily qualitative, creative, and co-production methods. Monica is Principal Investigator of the NIHR HSDR-funded ‘Pro-Health’ study, looking at delegated healthcare interventions in homecare, working closely with the DHSC and Skills for Care. She previously led the NIHR SSCR-funded ‘DemChamp’ study, which conceptualised and developed the role of Dementia Champions in the homecare sector.

Monica is a Co-I on a number of health and social care projects covering a range of health and social care topics, including racial abuse of staff, long-distance care, end-of-life care, dementia interventions, and workforce roles and training in homecare and care home settings. Completed projects looked at areas such as volunteering in adult social care, Personal Assistants during Covid-19, and web-based dementia support. Monica was previously involved in the King’s Parliamentary Research Programme, working on a policy research translation project to build a two-way knowledge exchange path between King’s researchers and parliamentarians. She obtained her PhD at UCL, on the topic of homecare for people living with dementia using an ethnographic approach.

Monica is a Co-I on the EMPOWER Dementia Network+, a large network of people dedicated to co-producing a better future for people living with dementia. She was previously a Fellow of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London.

Monica chairs the 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 is on Bluesky and LinkedIn.

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