Funding opportunities - Vivensa Foundation We know that there’s a huge amount to do, so we need to prioritise.  We will be focusing on some key themes for support for our current plan period (which you can find in our Strategic Framework 2025-...

📢 Our Joint British Geriatrics Society / Vivensa Foundation Doctoral Training Fellowship is open. Applicants can apply for up to £350,000 to carry out ageing-related research. The deadline is 20 March 2026, 5pm. More information: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu...
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#Socialworkers for #olderpeople #olderadults in South London: are you free to join an online roundtable to discuss prevention (& living alone) on 20th or 29th Jan or 11th Feb? See more in the string below.
@basw-uk.bsky.social

Strengths-based approaches in social care and community services | King's College London From October 2024 to March 2026, our work continues to focus on strengths-based approaches in social care and community services.

See: kcl.ac.uk/research/str...
#london #health #socialcare #olderpeople #prevention #occupationaltherapy #commissioning #GPpharmacist #integratedneighbourhoodteam #housing
@SELondonICS @SWLNHS
@ARC_S_L

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We will explore the value & role of monitoring work to stakeholders in their own work in roundtables on:
1) Tue 20 Jan (10-12)
2) Thu 29 Jan (1-3)
3) Wed 11 Feb 2026 (10-12).
If you're SOUTH LONDON-based, free & want to know more, please let us know forms.office.com/e/W3s70xknPt
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We are researching the health & wellbeing monitoring often routinely done by people working & volunteering in these services. We now want to find out how useful this work is for people working elsewhere in #socialcare, #health & #housing (stakeholders).
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Do you work in #socialcare, #health or #housing in #southLondon?
Are you interested in the preventive role of home care, lunch clubs, men’s sheds or befriending services for #olderpeople #livingalone?
Do you interact with people providing these services in your work?
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New tool supports implementation research in social care Social care and implementation researchers at ARC South London have produced a new guide to designing and conducting implementation research within social care.

New tool, co-developed by IoPPN researcher Dr Antonina Semkina, supports implementation research in social care, in collaborations with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London

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Why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility US President Donald Trump has launched a series of Executive Actions1 to dismantle diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts; defund scientific research; and freeze federal funds and pro...

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Our reflections on several decades of regulatory reform that have aimed to address failings in the provision of care for children and young people and develop the children's residential care workforce @hscwru.bsky.social
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A systematic narrative review of the research evidence of the impact of intersectionality on service engagement and help-seeking across different groups of women, trans women, and non-binary individua... Background Women with experience of homelessness face severe health inequalities, with their average age at death being nearly half that of the general population. Recent research emphasises the compo...

A systematic narrative review of the research evidence of the impact of intersectionality on service engagement and help-seeking across different groups of women, trans women, and non-binary individuals experiencing homelessness and housing exclusion
By Carolin Hess et al
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Recognizing the contribution of older people's day centres to prevention agendas New article by Kritika Samsi and Katharine Orellana

📢 NEW ARTICLE
Recognizing the contribution of older people's day centres to prevention agendas
by Kritika Samsi & @katitao.bsky.social - under the @arc-southlondon.bsky.social social care theme at the Unit #OpenAccess
News & blog introducing the article 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/recogni...

text on a light pink background reads "Social Care Theme: Oct 2019 – Sep 2024, End of programme highlights and overview summary of work ‘Adult social care covers social work, personal care and practical support for adults with a physical disability, a learning disability, or physical or mental illness, as well as support for their carers.’ National Audit Office, 2018. Adult social care at a glance)"

🎉ARC South London's social care theme are marking the end of a successful five year programme (October 2019 to September 2024).

View the highlights 👇

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Working across housing, social care and safeguarding to tackle long-term rough sleeping: webinar Webinar to share research and best practice with colleagues across the homelessness and safeguarding adults sectors, to support effective multi-disciplinary working to help resolve rough sleeping for ...

Now up on the MHCLG website:
Strengthening adult safeguarding response to homelessness and self-neglect, with Jess Harris, part of the Nov 2024 webinar - www.gov.uk/guidance/wor...

Are you preparing to #commission local #olderpeople’s #daycentre provision? How much do you know about these services? Read about the research #evidence on the Day Centre Resources Hub arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/day-centre-r... @arc-sl @hscwru

Evaluation of Community Led Support receives European Social Services Award
Unit researcher Chloe Waterman was co-investigator
#ESSN2024
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/evaluat...