The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London ran from October 2019 to March 2026 (including an 18-month extension). It conducted research to help the NHS and social care services offer excellent care based on evidence across south London and beyond.

Staff at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce in the Policy Institute at King’s College London led the Social Care Themed programme. Our aim was to strengthen social care services in South London, highlight their strengths in communities, support them in capturing and communicating their outcomes, develop social care research capacity, and identify new research priorities for future work.

Involvement and engagement work underpinned our work throughout the programme. We engaged with the social care sector, identified new groups in south London to invite to become involved in research, built on the strong relationships we already had, and continued our involvement in local initiatives, our training and dissemination formats, ongoing seminar series and forums, and with local and national stakeholders.

Read more about our work:

• Prevention
• Day centres
• Dementia
• Building social care research capacity
• Social care research methodology
• London Councils priorities

See highlights of our work and an overview summary (October 2019 to September 2024).

Research interns on the theme:

• Manjot Brar 
• Aisha Nizam