School for Social Care Research
The national home of research excellence for social care.
The School for Social Care Research (SSCR) is the national centre for adult social care research in England.
Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), its internationally-leading research aims to work with practice, partners and the public to identify how best to deliver affordable, high quality and sustainable social care that meets the needs of a diverse and ageing population.
Ensuring adult social care is effective and fit-for-purpose is an urgent and complex challenge which impacts us all. The NIHR SSCR’s research aims to improve the evidence base in adult social care in its widest sense by generating new knowledge that will ultimately result in better quality of life for people delivering and receiving social care.
The NIHR SSCR’s research covers all aspects of adult social care including later life care; services for people living with physical disabilities; learning disabilities; or physical and mental ill health.
The SSCR is a partnership between seven leading academic centres, each with excellence in applied social care research in England. Professor Yvonne Birks, of the University of York, is its national Director.
Other SSCR members
Social care research at York
The University of York is a leading institution in applied health and social care research, dating back to its foundation in the 1960s.
The SSCR team of applied researchers based here at York have a broad range of expertise in areas including:
- Partnership working
- Dementia
- Social policy
- Occupational therapy
- Mental health
- Health economics
- Values-based recruitment
- Self-funding social care
Our team
- Professor Yvonne Birks, SSCR Director
- Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole, SSCR Deputy Director
- Dr Phillip Whitehead, SSCR Deputy Director
- Jen Hill, Programme Manager
- Sophie Caswell-Jones, Academic Capacity Development Coordinator
- Laura Haviland, Knowledge Exchange, Impact and Communications Manager
- Teresa Frank, SSCR Programme Administrator