Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall

Department of Social Work and Social Care
Embedded Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
Health Services Management Centre
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Patrick is an Embedded Research Fellow with West Midlands ADASS, facilitating engagement with research in social care. With 15 years of experience, he focuses on social care history and cultural-institutional dynamics in the field.

Qualifications

PhD in Social Policy and Society, University 麻豆精选 (Ongoing)

MA, Social Research Methods, University 麻豆精选, 2021

PG Cert, Governance and Public Policy, University of York, 2016

Biography

Patrick is an Embedded Research Fellow, working closely with West Midlands ADASS (Association of Directors of Social Services) to facilitate research engagement across Adult Social Care departments. He has been working in and thinking about social care for 15 years. He is the co-author of ‘Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations’ with Catherine Needham which tracked the development of adult social care policy in the devolved administrations. He is a former fellow of The King’s Fund and Demos. He recently completed his thesis ‘The Ideas and Institutions of Adult Social Care Commissioning’, which explores the tensions between key paradigms of adult social care and their impact on practice. His research interests are the history of social care, applying realist cultural theory and the interaction between ideas and institutions in adult social care.

Research

Evidence-Based Commissioning? Investigating ideas about evidence in adult social care commissioning. West Midlands Applied Research Collaboration, NIHR. 

Is Commissioning Dead? Ideas and institutions of adult social Care commissioning in England. ESRC PhD 

Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations. Devolution and adult social care policy. ESRC Sustainable Care Programme.