Sustainable Care: connecting people and systems

我们的计划侧重于生活在家中的慢性健康问题或残疾的成年人的护理需求，并寻求可持续的解决方案，以英国当代的“护理危机”。它是独特的调查可持续性和福祉在照顾全面跨护理系统，工作和关系;解决护理理论之间的脱节在不同学科;并定位其所有的研究在国际奖学金的背景下，积极与政策合作伙伴。 它将填补知识空白，贡献新的理论思想和数据分析，并提供有用的，准确的证据，为护理规划，提供和经验提供信息。它发展并批判性地参与有关以下方面的政策和理论辩论：（系统、网络、伙伴关系、标准）;护理劳动分工/护理的政治经济学（不平等、剥削）;护理伦理、权利、承认和价值观（框架、标准、权利、福利成果）;护理技术和人与技术的互动;我们的团队由来自7所大学的20名学者组成，与遍布15个国家的国际网络建立了联系。我们的方案包括综合活动，整个团队共同努力，制定一个新的概念框架，可持续的护理和福祉，和两个工作链，每个有4个相关的项目，对“护理系统”和“护理工作和福利”。“护理系统”将：（i）研究在英格兰、新泽西州运营的四个护理系统的前景、发展和差异。爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士，比较它们对市场、私有化和依赖无酬照护的做法; ㈡照护成本和贡献模式，包括照护者和雇主的成本和贡献以及照护方面的公共支出; ㈢评估新兴技术在加强照护系统可持续性方面的潜力; ㈣在动态政策背景下，分析移徙照护工作者在家庭照护可持续性方面的作用。“护理工作与关系”将：㈠对新出现的家庭护理模式进行个案研究，评估其对可持续福祉的影响; ㈡重点关注将联合收割机就业与无酬护理相结合的护理人员，填补在以下方面的知识空白：工作场所支助的有效性，以及护理假和工作场所标准计划可以促进可持续护理安排;（iii）探讨如何整合护理技术，以支持工作的护理人员，确保整个护理网络的福祉成果;（iv）随着系统适应人口多样性和流动性，或面临与人口多样性和流动性相关的压力，调查"在“和”不在“的护理。每个项目都将与我们的国际合作伙伴合作。这些学者，在26个合作机构，将确保我们从其他人了解如何理解，测量或解释护理的组织和经验的发展，并跟上最新的研究和奖学金的方式学习。我们的能力建设战略将建立在可持续性和福祉的护理研究未来的学术专长，并确保我们的概念，方法和研究成果达到卓越的国际标准。我们合作的大学提供了5个英国和12个海外博士学位，使我们能够在我们的高级团队和合作伙伴的支持下，形成一个关于可持续护理的国际早期职业学者网络。我们的影响力战略由英国护理人员领导，涉及英国和国际政策合作伙伴。为政策，实践和辩论提供信息，我们将共同制作分析和指导，提高数据质量，促进良好做法，并吸引决策者，政策制定者，公共，私营和志愿部门的从业人员，护理人员，有护理需求的人和媒体。我们的咨询委员会的领先学者，政策/实践数字和舆论领袖将指导我们的所有工作。

Our programme focuses on the care needs of adults living at home with chronic health problems or disabilities, and seeks sustainable solutions to the UK's contemporary 'crisis of care'. It is distinctive in investigating sustainability and wellbeing in care holistically across care systems, work and relationships; addresses disconnection between theorisations of care in different disciplines; and locates all its research in the context of international scholarship, actively engaging with policy partners. It will fill knowledge gaps, contribute new theoretical ideas and data analyses, and provide useful, accurate evidence to inform care planning, provision and experience. It develops and critically engages with policy and theoretical debates about: care infrastructure (systems, networks, partnerships, standards); divisions of caring labour/the political economy of care (inequalities, exploitation); care ethics, rights, recognition and values (frameworks, standards, entitlements, wellbeing outcomes); care technologies and human-technological interactions; and care relations in emotional, familial, community and intergenerational context.Our team comprises 20 scholars in 7 universities, linked to an international network spanning 15 countries. Our programme comprises integrative activities, in which the whole team works together to develop a new conceptual framework on sustainable care and wellbeing, and two Work Strands, each with 4 linked projects, on 'Care Systems' & 'Care Work & Relationships'. 'Care Systems' will: (i) study prospects, developments and differentiation in the four care systems operating in England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales, comparing their approaches to markets, privatisation and reliance on unpaid care; (ii) model costs and contributions in care, covering those of carers and employers as well as public spending on care; (iii) assess the potential of emerging technologies to enhance care system sustainability; and (iv) analyse, in a dynamic policy context, migrant care workers' role in the sustainability of homecare. 'Care Work & Relationships' will: (i) develop case studies of emerging homecare models, and assess their implications for sustainable wellbeing; (ii) focus on carers who combine employment with unpaid care, filling gaps in knowledge about the effectiveness of workplace support and what care leave and workplace standard schemes can contribute to sustainable care arrangements; (iii) explore how care technologies can be integrated to support working carers, ensuring wellbeing outcomes across caring networks; and (iv) investigate care 'in' and 'out of' place, as systems adapt or come under pressure associated with population diversity and mobility. Each project will collaborate with our international partners. These scholars, in 26 collaborating institutions, will ensure we learn from others about ways of understanding, measuring or interpreting developments in how care is organised and experienced, and keep up to date with latest research and scholarship. Our capacity-building strategy will build future scholarly expertise in the study of sustainability and wellbeing in care, and ensure our concepts, methods, and research findings achieve international standards of excellence. Universities in our partnership are contributing 5 UK & 12 overseas PhD studentships, enabling us to form an international early career scholar network on sustainable care, supported by our senior team and partners. Our impact strategy, led by Carers UK, involves leading UK and international policy partners. Informing policy, practice and debate, we will co-produce analyses and guidance, enhance data quality, promote good practice and engage decision-makers, policymakers, practitioners in the public, private and voluntary sectors, carers, people with care needs, and the media. Our Advisory Board of leading academics, policy/practice figures and opinion formers will guide all our work.