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Diane has taken a leading role in developing a successful social care research programme and has an excellent record of accomplishment, attracting research grants totalling over £11 million. Diane has led a successful carer research programme and has an established reputation for completing policy relevant research that has impact. She has led reviews of national policy implementation, including evaluations of the National Carers Strategies in England for the Department of Health and in Wales for the Welsh Government. Diane is a member of the Welsh Government Ministerial Advisory Group on Carers. She has previously acted as a Specialist Advisor on Domiciliary Care to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, House of Commons.
Diane contributes to the development and delivery of the Welsh Government’s Research Infrastructure Support System. As Co-Investigator and Social Care Research Lead for the Wales Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research, she leads initiatives to better integrate research, policy and practice. She is an Advisory Group Member, Wales School for Social Care Research, advising on the strategic direction of the School, and member of the School’s PhD Fellowship Committee. Diane is Deputy Chair for the Welsh Government’s Social Care Research Grants and Fellowship Committees. She has been actively involved in developing opportunities for social care managers and practitioners to undertake applied social care research and recruiting doctoral students to Wales.
Diane is taking forward several research development initiatives including:
- Social Care Innovations Lab (#SCIL)
- UK Meaningful Short Breaks Research and Practice Development Group
Social Care Innovations Lab (#SCIL)
Recognising the importance of public and professional involvement in social care research, #SCIL is an initiative hosted by the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research that is designed to support creative approaches to research development and knowledge exchange. #SCIL is underpinned by three key principles that are essential to generating robust research evidence that informs the realisation of policy and practice objectives – involving, innovating and improving. Acting as a connecting hub, #SCIL also facilitates knowledge exchange between people, enabling them to share ideas and evidence that contributes towards the achievement of well-being outcomes, continual professional development and quality improvement of services
Meaningful short breaks for carers and people with complex care needs
Building on an established carer research programme at Bangor, the meaningful short breaks research stream is addressing an area of international concern as policy makers and practitioners seek to develop flexible approaches to service provision that support positive, sustainable caring relationships. Having mapped the evidence base for short breaks for carers for older people (https://www.sharedcarescotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/05615-Shared-Care-Scotland-research-report.pdf), current research projects include Co-creating, Commissioning and Delivering Meaningful Short Breaks – integrating research, policy and practice funded by the Welsh Government. Diane has played a key role in establishing a UK-wide Short Breaks Research and Practice Development Group that is shaping a future research agenda and supporting capacity building and research excellence in an under-researched area. The Group acts as the UK link for the International Break Exchange Network.
Diane is involved in several social care projects addressing how to improve the quality of care and services. These projects address some of the key principles underpinning the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, including multiagency working, voice and control and prevention and early intervention:
- Multi-agency working – The application of systems thinking approaches to support the development of integrated care services for adults with complex care needs involves a systematic review of the evidence base and collaborative working with a local authority to develop be-spoke recommendations for their organisation.
- Multi-agency working - Rewriting Scripts: Promoting multi-disciplinary teams for users of methadone prescription programmes involves a policy evaluation and interviews with key stakeholders.
- Prevention and early intervention – Night Owls: exploring unscheduled care at night involves a scoping review, theanalysis of routinely collected data on an innovative service (providing unscheduled support during the night-time to relieve pressure on the 999 service) and interviews with older people. Outputs include be-spoke satisfaction and outcomes tools.
- Voice and control – Everyday lives: exploring the experiences of people with a learning disability in the early stages of the new Social Services and Wellbeing Act (2014) Wales involves a systematic review and narrative interviews with people living with a learning disability and their families as well as key professionals in the statutory and independent sectors.
Cyfleoedd Project Ôl-radd
I welcome the opportunity to supervise PhD work that addresses social care issues as they relate to older people, including those living with dementia, their un-paid carers and those employed in the social care sector. I particularly welcome qualitative or mixed-methods studies about:
- Assessment and support planning for people with complex care needs and their un-paid carers
- Meaningful short breaks (sometimes called respite care) that support positive, sustainable caring relationships
- Experiences and support needs of un-paid carers in employment or in higher education
- Ways to help individuals achieve personal well-being outcomes, with a focus on:
- Voice and control
- Prevention and early intervention
- Co-production of services
- Integrated, multi-agency working
- Ways to help individuals achieve personal well-being outcomes, with a focus on:
- Nursing and residential care home provision
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
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Gweithgareddau
2022
- online seminar sharing the research process and Cruse report
Effective partnership working to deliver pre bereavement support for feelings of loss and grief along the journey with dementia
Cruse Bereavement Support Cymru, have been supporting people affected by dementia with feelings of loss along the journey with dementia, in partnership with Alzheimer’s Society Cymru through their innovative project funded by Gwent Integrated Care Funding until March 2022.
Following on from the success of the first project of the partnership, Bereaved by Dementia, which supported people with dementia and their families following a bereavement, this new project has its focus on improving access to pre-bereavement support.
The webinar will share how the training was developed and the benefits of working together to offer innovative support to people during Covid-19. The session will also include stories and discussions with volunteers and clients including Teresa Davies and Margaret Carmen who worked with the partners to share the importance of discussing loss and grief openly after a diagnosis or death of loved on with dementia. Bangor University’s research team, led by Dr Catrin Hedd Jones, conducted an independent evaluation of the project and will be sharing the report at the event.
15 Maw 2022
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
2013
- Supporting carers for people with mental health problems: the caring journey.
Invited presentation ESRC seminar: Carers in the 21st century - developing the evidence base
3 Meh 2013
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Adult survivors & their families: current needs & service responses
Invited presentation: Bradford Specialist Sexual Violence & Abuse Advisory Group, Emerging Science and voices. A conference exploring recovery opportunities & evidenced outcomes.
23 Ion 2013
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
2010
- Unified Assessment in Wales: older people with complex needs & their families
New frontiers in caring: 2010 and beyond. 5th international carers conference.
9 Gorff 2010 – 11 Gorff 2017
Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
Projectau
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Embedding and sustaining creatiity in social care practice with older people
01/01/2022 – 01/08/2022 (Wedi gorffen)
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KESS II MRes with Anglesey County Council- BUK2192
01/04/2020 – 30/04/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)
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01/05/2019 – 30/06/2022 (Wedi gorffen)
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Shared Care Scotland Scoping Review: Short Breaks for Carers
01/02/2019 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)
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KESS II MRes with Cyngor Gwynedd- BUK2151
01/12/2018 – 30/09/2020 (Wedi gorffen)
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KESS II PhD project with Mencap Cymru BUK243
01/07/2016 – 31/07/2020 (Wedi gorffen)
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Infrastructure for Social Care Research (extension)
01/04/2015 – 29/09/2016 (Wedi gorffen)
Cysylltau:
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Explore the experience of Huntingdon's Disease.
05/11/2012 – 04/11/2013 (Wedi gorffen)
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Gwent Carers Support Evaluation
01/04/2011 – 30/06/2012 (Wedi gorffen)
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Adult survivors and their families: current needs and service response
31/03/2010 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)
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Unified Assessment Process In Wales
31/03/2008 – 30/10/2011 (Wedi gorffen)
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Word - Carers Strategy In Wales
01/03/2003 – 01/10/2009 (Wedi gorffen)