Team
Senior Team
The senior team oversees and guides the strategic development of the programme’s two main strands, assuring quality standards, excellence in all programme arrangements, and sustained commitment to impact and international engagement.
Professor Sue Yeandle
Director of CIRCLE
Principal Investigator for the Sustainable Care Programme
Madeleine Starr MBE
Sustainable Care Senior Team
Professor Norah Keating
Sustainable Care Senior Team
Professor Jon Glasby
Sustainable Care Senior Team
Professor Jill Manthorpe
Sustainable Care Senior Team
Co-Investigators
Co-Investigators include our work package leaders and other academics based at collaborating universities.
Work package leaders are responsible for oversight and guidance of their work package team; and ensuring they contribute to the programme’s capacity building, impact and academic publication strategies.
Co-Investigators without leadership roles contribute to specific work packages.
Professor Janet Fast
Co-Investigator
Work Packages: Modelling care system costs and contributions and Combining work and care
Dr Kate Hamblin
Co-Investigator, Sustainable Care Research Fellow
Work Package: Achieving sustainability in care systems
Professor Jason Heyes
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Combining work and care
Professor Shereen Hussein
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Migrant care workers in the UK
Professor Majella Kilkey
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Care 'in' and 'out of' place
Professor Catherine Needham
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Comparing UK care systems
Professor Jenny Phillimore
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Comparing UK care systems
Dr Alasdair Rutherford
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Comparing UK care systems
Research support
Kelly and Dan support the academic activities of programme, manage budgetary, planning and reporting mechanisms and programme communications.
Dr Kelly Davidge
Programme Manager
Dan Williamson
Programme Administrator
Researchers and Partner Collaborators
Our Sustainable Care researchers have designated roles in specific work packages, working within teams to deliver research and impact. They are an important part of our wider early career researcher network.
Maria Cheshire-Allen
PhD Student, Swansea University
Work Package: Delivering care at home
Jacquie Eales
Research Associate, University of Alberta
Work Package: Combining work and care
Duncan Fisher
Research Associate, the University of Sheffield
Work Package: Delivering care at home
Dr Cate Goodlad
Research Associate, the University of Sheffield
Work Package: Delivering care at home
Patrick Hall
Research Associate, University of Birmingham
Work Package: Comparing UK care systems
Dr Kelly Hall
Research Associate, University of Birmingham
Work Package: Care 'in' and 'out of' place
Dr Agnes Turnpenny
Research Associate, University of Kent
Work Package: Migrant care workers in the UK
Katherine Wilson
Researcher, Carers UK
Work Package: Combining work and care
UKRI Innovation Fellows
Our UKRI Innovation Fellows are resourced through the National Productivity Investment Fund and linked to the UK’s Industrial Strategy. Their focus is on Positioning Care to Support Innovation, Growth and Upskilling.
Each Fellow has an individual research programme linked to Sustainable Care, and works in partnership with industrial and care sector partners.
Dr Mandy Cook
UKRI Innovation Fellow
Enhancing organisational effectiveness by modernising support for working carers
Dr Matthew Lariviere
UKRI Innovation Fellow
Accelerating implementation and uptake of new technologies to support ageing in place
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Dr Karla Zimpel-Leal
UKRI Innovation Fellow
Advancing business innovation in the home care sector
PhD Students
Our PhD students are linked with specific work packages, and form an important part of our early career researcher network. They address vital research questions linked to the Sustainable Care programme.
Camille Allard
PhD Student
Employers’ voluntary care leave schemes in the UK: a comparative analysis
Work Package: Combining work and care
Alice Spann
PhD Student
Combining care and paid work; how can technology help?
Work Package: Combining work and care
Obert Tawodzera
PhD Student
The role of new technologies in mediating long distant aged-care relationships between UK-based migrants and their overseas family members
Work Package: Care 'in' and 'out of' place
Previous team members
Dr Annie Austin
Research Associate
Work Package: Combining work and care
Dr Magdolna Lőrinc
Research Associate, the University of Sheffield
Work Package: Care 'in' and 'out of' place
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Professor Allister McGregor
Sustainable Care Senior Team
Dr Sarah Smith
Research Associate
Work Package: Achieving sustainability in care systems
Professor Louise Ryan
Co-Investigator
Work Package: Care 'in' and 'out of' place
Dr James Wright
Research Associate
Work Package: Achieving sustainability in care systems
Dr Yanan Zhang
Research Associate, University of Birmingham
Work Package: Modelling care systems costs and contributions
Sustainable Care Visitors
Visitors to the Sustainable Care Programme make a variety of contributions. Visits range from extended periods of sabbatical leave to short visits in which they share their experiences in special seminars, workshops and meetings organised with the SC team.
Frida Andréasson
Visiting Academic, PhD Student
Professor Loretta Baldassar
University of Western Australia
Richard Humphries
The King's Fund
Katja Knauthe
Visiting Academic, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
Dr Fiona Macdonald
RMIT University
Andrew Magnaye
Visiting Academic, University of Alberta
Professor Mao Saito
Visiting Academic, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
Stecy Yhgemonos
Executive Director, Eurocarers and Sustainable Care Advisory Board member
Collaborating Research Groups
Our team delivering the ESRC-funded Sustainable Care programme draws together, in a collaboration agreement, the expertise of academics in leading academic research centres and senior staff at Carers UK.
University of Alberta
RAPP – Research on Ageing Policy and Practice
University of Birmingham
HSMC – Health Service Management Centre
IRIS – Institute for Research into Superdiversity
University of Kent
PSSRU – Personal Social Services Research Unit
King's College London
SCWRU – Social Care Workforce Research Unit
The University of Sheffield
CDW – Centre for Decent Work
CIRCLE – Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities
MRG – Migration Research Group
CarersUK
EfC – Employers for Carers
Sustainable Care programme co-investigators and collaborating researchers in the UK also include scholars in the following research groups:
University of Ulster
Institute for Research in Social Sciences
University of Swansea
Centre for Innovative Ageing
University of Leeds
Legal Entitlements and Problem-Solving
University of Stirling
Scottish Network for Third Sector data
Advisers
Our advisers work with key members of the team to support our impact activities and advise on specific areas. They keep the Sustainable Care team informed of developments in their field such as new publications and related research.
Professor Luke Clements
Legal Expert on Care and Disability
Professor Mark Hawley
