Professor Ailsa Cameron
B.A.(Exon.), M.Sc.(Lond.)
Expertise
Primarily a qualitative researcher focusing on health and social care provision. I have particular expertise in conducting longitudinal research, in-depth case studies and mixed method studies.
Current positions
Professor of Health and Social Care
School for Policy Studies
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Biography
Research interests
I have a long-standing interest in the integration of services, particularly how agencies and professionals work together. The work has been conducted within and across the social care, health and housing sectors, in partnership with non-academic collaborators. My work has focused on the structures and process of joint working between agencies; the impact on outcomes for those drawing on support and organisations and, the role of professions and professional boundaries. In recent years the focus of my research has been on the provision of social care services, particularly for older adults. Recent studies have explored collective day care for older adults as a means to consider its current and potential role in Integrated Care Systems, as well as considering the role of volunteers in the provision of social care support.
Recent research projects
2021-2023 Reimagining collective forms of day care for older people. NIHR SSCR £375,745 PI
2021-2024 Connecting evidence with decision making. NIHR £2,073,812, CI
2021–2023 A patient reported questionnaire to measure the use of informal care, social care and personal expenses. NIHR, RfPB £186,100 CI (with BMS)
2020 – Exploring the significance of home delivered meals among clients of meals on wheels services. NIHR SSCR, £23,000, CI
2020 - Delivery of meals to self-isolating adults during COVID-19. EBI, £4,941, CI
2020 Bereavement support during COVID-19. EBI, £4,800, CI
2017-2019 Exploring the role of volunteers in care settings for older people. NIHR SSCR
2016-2018 Support for Older Carers of Older People: the Impact of the 2014 Care Act. NIHR SSCR
2015-2017 The Provision of Adult Social Care for Older People in Extra Care Housing (ECHO). NIHR SSCR
2015 – 2017 The role of local authorities in the provision of Appropriate Adults for vulnerable adults in police custody. NIHR SSCR
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The significance of home-delivered meals among Meals on Wheels service users and their referrers: co-producing knowledge translation tools to add value to qualitative findings
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/05/2023 to 31/07/2023
Models of Meals on Wheels provision in England: a rapid review
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
The aim of the proposed NIHR Research Capability Funding project is to conduct a rapid review of the grey literature, in order to document existing models of provision of the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
27/03/2023 to 31/07/2023
ConnectED: Connecting Evidence to Decision Making
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
ConnectED is a project that aims to help decision-makers in Adult Social Care make better decisions by growing their ability to use research.Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
05/01/2022 to 31/12/2024
Connecting Evidence with Decision Making in Adult Social Care
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Connected aims to help decision-makers in Adult
Social Care (ASC) make better decisions by growing their ability to use
research evidence. We are a partnership of Local Authority ASC departments,…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2021 to 28/02/2025
Exploring Meals on Wheels as a service provided to vulnerable adults in South-East Asia: establishing food safety, nutritional, social care, psychological and policy implications
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project is a cross-country collaboration between the University of Bristol, the National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) and Universitas Airlangga (Indonesia). The aim is for the working group to explore…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
19/07/2021
Thesis supervisions
The Public Service Ethos: a Case Study of its Meaning in a Strategic Partnership Board
Supervisors
Decision making about sex and relationships education policy by English primary schools' governing boards
Supervisors
Policy Making about Relationships and Sex Education in English Primary Schools
Supervisors
‘It's just not what I dreamed society should be'; examining autistic adults’ narratives of homelessness
Supervisors
Exploring ‘nested’ problematizations of Universal Credit payment to couples
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2024Accessing Meals on Wheels
Health Expectations
Identification and prioritisation of items for a draft participant-reported questionnaire to measure use of social care, informal care, aids and adaptations
PharmacoEconomics - Open
“Shooting in the dark”
Evidence and Policy
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on older residents’ social connections and everyday wellbeing within housing schemes that provide care and support in England and Wales.
Journal of Aging Studies
‘There isn’t anybody else like me around here’
Frontiers in Sociology
Teaching
For many years I led or contributed to research methods teaching at post graduate level and was Programme Director of the Masters in Policy Research.
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