Funder: Nuffield Foundation
Value: £184,129
Project Team
- Professor Rick Hood, Kingston and St George's
- Mr Allie Goldacre, Kingston and St George's
- Mr Keith Clements, National Children's Bureau
- Dr Calum Webb, University of Sheffield
Dates: 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2023
More about this project: Studying the outcomes of different types of demand in children's social care
Studying the link between household benefits, financial precarity and child welfare
Funder: Nuffield Foundation
Value: £298,770
Project Team
- Rick Hood, Professor of Social Work, Kingston University
- Deven Ghelani, Chief Executive, Policy in Practice
- Magda Rossetti-Youlton, Senior Analyst, Policy in Practice
- Jiangnan Liao, Analyst, Policy in Practice
- Liam Berriman, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex
- Keith Clements, Senior Researcher, NCB
- Ava Berry, Policy and Research Manager, NCB
- Chao Wang, Associate Professor, Kingston University
Dates: 1 September 2023 to 28 November 2025
More about this project: Financial precarity and child welfare
What kinds of children's homes work well for which children? A mixed methods study of stability and outcomes using national administrative data
Funder: National Institute for Health and Social Care Research
Value: £355,539
Project Team
- Rick Hood, Kingston University
- Allie Goldacre, Kingston University
- Chao Wang, Kingston University
- Caroline Coady, National Children's Bureau
- Keith Clements, National Children's Bureau
- Dustin Hutchinson, National Children's Bureau
- Ava Berry, National Children's Bureau
Dates: 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2026
More about this project: Children in Children's Homes
Funder: Nuffield Foundation
Value: £317,659
Project Team
- Professor Rick Hood, Kingston and St George's
- Professor Paul Bywaters, University of Huddersfield
- Mr Allie Goldacre, Kingston and St George's
- Dr Sarah Gorin, Kingston and St George's
More about this project: Identifying and understanding the link between system conditions and welfare inequalities in children's social care services
- Chief investigators: Professor Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, Professor Priscilla Harries, Dr Tushna Vandrevala
- Lead organisation: Kingston University and St George's, University of London
- Dates: 2019–2022
- Funder: Wellcome Trust
- Value of award at KU: £180,000
TORR is a mixed methods study that aims to understand how peer reviewers use and combine the information in grant applications to make their recommendations. A key objective is to contribute to the development of evidence-based training to support peer-reviewers' work.
- Lead organisation: King's College London – Director: Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft
- Investigators at KU: Professor Fiona Jones (Deputy IS Theme Lead) and Dr Richard Bolton
- Dates: 2019–2024
- Funder: NIHR
- Value of ARC themes award at KU: £83,888
Research being carried out under this theme aims to generate tools that can be used by health and social care stakeholders to plan and evaluate implementation of complex health and social care programmes and interventions.
More about the project: Implementation science
- Lead organisation: King's College London – Director: Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft
- Theme leader: Professor Mary Chambers, Kingston University
- Dates: 2019–2024
- Funder: NIHR
- Value of ARC themes award at KU: £83,888
There are currently two research projects being undertaken under this theme. The first is a mixed-methods study to identify existing approaches to PPI in health and social care commissioning; and the second, a study of the role of PPI leads in research.
Taken together, these projects aim to deepen understanding of various aspects of PPI such as the embedding of PPI national standards in research context, the impacts of PPI, and the barriers and facilitators to PPI engagement of underserved groups.
Learning from both projects will help strengthen PPI practice in all aspects of health and social care and in collaborative research environments.
More about the project: Patient and public involvement research
- Lead organisation: King's College London – Director: Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft
- Investigators at KU: Professor Priscilla Harries and Dr Kirstie Coxon (Deputy Theme Leads)
- Dates: 2019–2024
- Funder: NIHR
- Value of ARC themes award at KU: £83,888
The theme's core project focuses on research capability for non-researchers and is carried out in partnership with ARC colleagues, the AHSN (Health Innovation Network) and Health Education England.
Under the theme, an online module in implementation science will be developed as a partnership between ARC South London Academic Partners (King's College London, Kingston University and St George's, University of London) and the University of East Anglia.
It is expected that this will provide a valuable resource to inform implementation of applied research and is intended for local, national and international delivery.
More about the project: Our core ARC team
- Lead organisation: King's College London – Director: Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft
- Investigator at KU: Professor Rick Hood
- Dates: 2019–2024
- Funder: NIHR
- Value of ARC themes award at KU: £83,888
This research theme is dedicated to designing and testing new and better ways of improving care and health outcomes for two groups of often overlooked children, namely: children with disabilities and/or more than one long-term condition; and children who experience adverse conditions that make them less likely to develop optimally by the time they start school.
More about the project: About our children and young people research
