The NIHR have produced “Learning from PPI in Action: a collection of webinars” which includes a chapter reporting on the fifth webinar in a series of PPI webinars hosted by NIHR. This focuses on inclusive involvement in Adult Social Care Research, drawing on the experiences from the SCRiPT study. It aims to highlight tips to develop and support meaningful and inclusive public involvement in social care research.
One of the Research in Practice Teams has had a paper published:
March 2025
Tooke, S., Warrener, J., Leah, T., Ward, J. and Dearling, J., 2024. Is the Morriston Occupational Therapy Outcome Measure (MOTOM) an appropriate tool for reablement services?. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 87(12), pp.760-771.
This is an open access paper so freely available: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080226241269255
Older people’s experiences of returning home from hospital to receive social care support.
March 2025
Toby who led the Research in Practice team exploring older people’s experiences of returning home from hospital to receive social care support has produced an animation of the findings from this project – helped by one of the team’s lived experience partners, Hammed Khan.
SCRiPT and ASCENT conference – hybrid mode, London
November 2024
The SCRiPT team and guests met for a final time in London. We also shared the plans for the ASCENT work, which started in July 2024.
Our Research in Practice Team lead Chris Metcalf tells us about his experience in SCRiPT
August 2024
Understanding older people’s perspectives on sharing their Activity Monitoring Data with Social Care Services
Our RiPT leads completed an ARC fellowship as part of their training. Read more about Chris’ experience published in the ARC East of England website
SCRiPT conference – hybrid mode, London
March 2024
RiPT leads present their projects at the NIHR ARC East of England Showcase
March 2024
The whole team met face-to-face again in London
November 2023
We had a vibrant meeting with the whole project team
March 2023
Lifting the veil: Removing the invisibility of adult social care
The SCRiPT study team worked with partners to contribute written evidence to the House of Lords ASC Committee inquiry: ‘Lifting the veil: Removing the invisibility of adult social care’. Read the enquiry here.
Shaping Our Lives and SCRiPT have their first meeting!
In July 2022, Shaping Our Lives brought researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, service users and members of the SCRiPT Research in Practice Teams together for a workshop to discuss how best to come together and ensure the service user voice is included throughout a research project. Shaping Our Lives have written a blog about the day that you can see here.
Introduction To Research In The Social Care Settings learning programme
Researchers from the SCRiPT study were commissioned by the Clinical Research Network (CRN) Eastern to develop a learning programme designed to increase understanding of research in a social care setting.
The programme is for:
- Those in the social care setting who are new to research
- Anyone who is working in research and would like to know about how research works in the social care or social work setting.
You can find out more and register here.
The National Adult’s Commissioning and Contracting Training Conference
The SCRiPT team was invited to run a workshop at the National Adult’s Commissioning and Contracting Training Conference (NCCTC) on 12th November 2021. This provided us with an early opportunity to engage with adult social care commissioners in a national forum and hear how the SCRiPT study can support the commissioning cycle. Jennifer Lynch, Senior Research Fellow in the core project team and Nichola Lee, Senior Public Health Evaluation Officer at Hertfordshire County Council and SCRiPT Advisory Group member presented the workshop focusing on how commissioners can harness the potential of practitioner-led research to improve quality of care. The workshop showcased SCRiPT as an example of successful collaborative working between academics and local authorities with the aim of generating and mobilising evidence that can support strategic commissioning and service delivery.
More information about the NCCTC can be found here
