Care Initiative
Green Templeton College’s Care Initiative explores issues associated with care of older people by bringing together people from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds.
The Initiative engages in informed debate and research around the complex issues involved in caring for and with older people. Its general field of interest lies in explicating the policy dimensions of care for older people and developing understanding of the linkages between social care and health care.
The aims of the Initiative are rooted in Green Templeton’s engagement with and commitment to human welfare as a foundational college interest and common concern.
Membership of the Initiative reflects the disciplinary orientations of Green Templeton, drawing together especially scholars and students from the medical sciences, the social sciences and the business and management divisions at Oxford.
The Initiative’s events are designed to appeal to people in the public service and NGO sectors in Oxford (as well as academics from other units in Oxford) and the Initiative has been very successful in assembling a wide community of interest.
The Initiative was launched on Monday 27 October 2014 with a lecture by Sir Andrew Dilnot, Chair of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.
Activities centre around exploration of the wide ranging issues associated with the challenge of caring in an increasingly ageing society. The Initiative’s signature approach is to view these issues from a multi-faceted perspective, considering philosophical, institutional, resource and policy/service dimensions.
The topics that the Initiative has identified as key include:
- investments in and costs of social care;
- innovations in social and health care (with particular reference to online and digital, technological innovations);
- reimagining and remodelling care;
- philosophies of care and caring;
- and the degree to which physical, social and personal environments enable people to live out their lives in the place or places which they consider home.
A ‘state of the art’ interdisciplinary review of the literature on social care for older people in the UK was undertaken in 2016, resulting in the report by Dr Sue Westwood entitled ‘Social care and older people in home and community contexts: a review of existing research and evidence’. Governing Body Fellow Professor Mary Daly and Dr Westwood have written an academic paper (submitted for journal publication) based on findings from the review.
In 2018/19, the Care Initiative undertook a literature review looking at long-term care in a global context. A report by researcher Christina Petsoulas called ‘Thinking about long-term care in a global context – a literature review’ is now available.
Forthcoming events
Future events will appear here
Full list of past events
Human Rights in Care Homes for Older People: From Rhetoric to Reality
Thursday 2 November 2023
Dr Caroline Green
Professor Mary Daly
Developing a rights-based approach in long-term care
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Dr Magdi Birtha, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
Professor Jonathan Herring, DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law, Exeter College, Oxford
Chaired by Professor Mary Daly, Governing Body Fellow, Green Templeton College and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
What matters is what works? Understanding and implementing evidence-based changes in adult social care
Monday 31 October 2022
Professor Jon Glasby, Director IMPACT (Improving Adult Care Together), University of Birmingham
What Changes has the Pandemic Brought to Long-term Care Organisation in OECD Countries?
Thursday 31 March 2022
Dr Ana LLena-Nozal, Senior Economist, OECD
Chaired by Professor Mary Daly, Governing Body Fellow, Green Templeton College and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
The regulation of social care: Improving the treatment of workers through regulatory law
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Professor Lydia Hayes
End-of-life care and bereavement in the pandemic
Thursday 11 February 2021
Professor Keri Thomas, Founder and Clinical Lead of The National GSF Centre and Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham
Dr Lucy Selman, Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School
Professor Mary Daly, Governing Body Fellow, Green Templeton College and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford (Chair)
Innovation in home care
Thursday 21 November 2019
Dr Cate Goodlad, Research Associate, Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities, University of Sheffield
Dr Kate Hamblin, Co-Investigator, Sustainable Care Research Fellow, Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities, University of Sheffield
Dr Karla Zimpel-Leal, UKRI Innovation Fellow, Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities, University of Sheffield
Challenges of implementing an ethic of care in law and social policy
Thursday 17 October 2019
Professor Jonathan Herring, DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law, Exeter College, University of Oxford
*Cancelled* Innovating home care
Thursday 30 May 2019
Dr Diane Burns and Dr Kate Hamblin, Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Inequalities, University of Sheffield.
Preventing falls and frailty
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Jane McDermott, Programme Manager, Centre for Ageing Better, University of Manchester
Dr Lis Boulton, Research Fellow, Policy Research Unit Older People and Frailty, University of Manchester
Contact the Care Initiative
Further information can be requested from:
Professor Mary Daly, University of Oxford
Email: mary.daly@spi.ox.ac.uk
or
Naomi Benson, Green Templeton College
Email: naomi.benson@gtc.ox.ac.uk
