
Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King's College London. Director: @AnnetteBoaz. Also at: @hscwru.bsky.social
London, England
Joined March 2012
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NEW
Evaluation of the Adult Social Work Apprenticeship Fund
Report & blog - by Nicole Steils and colleagues
kcl.ac.uk/news/evaluation-of…
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Check out our upcoming webinar: "Probation work is not a branch of social work" exploring Post-1995 probation and social work. 24 February 2027, 1pm-3pm (chaired by @CarolineJBald). For more details & full list of speakers: kcl.ac.uk/events/probation-w…
International interdisciplinary perspectives in homelessness
Meeting hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) at King’s
kcl.ac.uk/news/international…
Social Work History Network
Next meeting:
“Probation work is not a branch of social work”: Post-1995 probation, social work and the making of separate professions
Wednesday, 24 February 2027 13:00 to 15:00 (UK)
Webinar #SWHN
More details & registration: kcl.ac.uk/events/probation-w…
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Care worker qualification rates continue downward trend, reveals report - Community Care communitycare.co.uk/content/…
📣 Are you part of the dementia care workforce? 📣
Please join us for a creative workshop on the 27th of November!
kcl.ac.uk/events/the-highs-t…
We've opened lots of funding opportunities in the last week!
Find them in the thread below, or visit: nihr.ac.uk/funding-opportuni…
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National social care assessment service should be created to tackle 'postcode lottery', says report - Community Care communitycare.co.uk/content/…
"DfE revising 'out of date' residential family centre standards following concerns over rapid growth of sector" - Community Care article cites report (June this year) by Mary Baginsky and Rick Hood.
communitycare.co.uk/content/…
NEW in our "LGBTQ+ life courses – health and social care research" webinar series
Chemsex, homelessness, and deep social exclusion within LGBTQ+ communities.
Presenters: Emily Porro and Matt Trew
Date: 25th November 2026
Time: 13:30 GMT
Location: online
kcl.ac.uk/events/chemsex
Coming up
Navigating surveillance: The experience of prenatal women who use or who are in treatment for using drugs
Webinar with @PollyRadcliffe
24 November 2026 14:00 to 15:15
All welcome
kcl.ac.uk/events/navigating-…
Research from our Homelessness Research Programme was presented at the 20th European Research Conference on Homelessness, Europe’s leading research conference on homelessness and housing exclusion.
Carolin Hess (left) + Alí Ruiz Coronel were in Lisbon
kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-researc…
At the next Home Care Research Forum - 18 Nov. 2-4:
Building relationships to support complex homecare for people with MND
Eleanor Wilson (Nottingham)
Delegated healthcare activities in homecare – The Pro-Health study
Cat Forward & Abi Burgess (KCL) #hcrf
kcl.ac.uk/events/home-care-r…
On the Unit blog:
How NHS support staff support learning in the workplace
a preview of forthcoming research findings by our colleague at King's Business School, Professor Richard Griffin
blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcarewo…
Unit Director was on the Policy Institute panel at the Green Party conference
@AnnetteBoaz was in Brighton on Friday discussing ‘From Workforce to Careforce’ from King's Better Health & Care Hub - illustrating the idea of careforce with Unit work
kcl.ac.uk/news/unit-director…
NEW at the Unit:
Racial Abuse of Care workers from minority Ethnic groups – in Dementia (RACE-D)
A three-year study starting this month led by @KritikaSamsi
Project page: kcl.ac.uk/research/race-d
Unit to have knowledge mobilisation and implementation role in new Applied Research Collaboration
➡️Unit Director @AnnetteBoaz, and Senior Research Fellows Liz Such and Anna Numa Hopkins are leading HSCWRU's contribution in the new initiative kcl.ac.uk/news/unit-to-have-…
King's co-leads £22m London health and social care partnership
King’s College London is co-leading a new partnership uniting London’s health and care community, underpinned by a significant investment in the city’s research infrastructure.
kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-joins-l…
▶️ Starting today
NEW STUDY: first in England to examine specialist homelessness residential care
led by Jess Harris (KCL) and Michelle Cornes (Salford)
with @AmmTowers @karlsw8 Stephen Martineau Michela Tinelli
kcl.ac.uk/news/new-study-fir…
Coming up on Monday:
Agenda for Action – digging deep on the origins and impact of the Griffiths’ Community Care report for social work
05 October 2026 13:00 to 15:00
Jill Manthorpe Robin Means Jon Glasby @SocWkHistory
kcl.ac.uk/events/griffiths-r…
Care Work Community of Practice webinar: AI-powered Optimisation in Homecare
22 October 2026 12:30 to 13:30
Details 👇
kcl.ac.uk/events/care-work-c…






