Patrick Hall In 'staff' StaffEmeritus ProfessorsHonorary staff Back to 'Department of Social Work and Social Care' Department of Social Work and Social CareEmbedded Research Fellow Contact details Emailp.j.hall@bham.ac.uk AddressHealth Services Management CentreUniversity 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.
Department of Social Work and Social CareEmbedded Research Fellow Contact details Emailp.j.hall@bham.ac.uk AddressHealth Services Management CentreUniversity 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.