Our funded projects and awards

Health and Care Research Wales supports a range of personal research awards for health and social care researchers across professions and at different stages of their careers.

To find out more about the awards and projects Health and Care Research Wales have funded please see below.

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‘Evaluating the quality of social work judgements: What happens to children and families following an assessment?’.

Lead Researcher: Dr David Wilkins

Amount: £73,852

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2026

Host Institution: Cardiff University

‘Welsh Basic Income for Care Leavers Pilot: What are the needs, experiences and outcomes for minoritized groups?’

Lead Researcher: Dr Louise Roberts

Amount: £75,000

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2026

Host Institution: Cardiff University

Compassionate care for people from ethnic minority backgrounds: What is it and how can it be applied in social care settings?’

Lead Researcher: Dr Juping Yu

Amount: £75,000

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2027

Host Institution: University of South Wales

Identifying and tackling inequalities for people with severe mental illness needing palliative care: Knowledge needs for addressing barriers across care systems.

Lead Researcher: Professor Michael Coffey

Amount: £74,991

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2026

Host Institution: Swansea University

‘Feeling loved and appreciated: a mixed methods study to examine care-experienced children and young people’s relationships and their association with mental health and wellbeing’.

Lead Researcher: Dr Rebecca Anthony

Amount: £344,426

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2027

Host Institution: Cardiff University

‘What affects the chances of children’s successful reunification from care?’

Lead Researcher: Dr Nell Warner

Amount: £360,749

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 18/11/2026

Host Institution: Cardiff University

‘ DISC Delivering Innovation in Social Care – The Role of the Social Enterprise Organisations in Supporting Family Carers’.

Lead Researcher: Dr Maria Cheshire Allen

Amount: £281,946

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2026

Host Institution: Swansea University

‘PREDicting risk of entry and re-entry Into CAre and risk of placeMENT instability from early life experiences amongst children in Wales: An ecological, multi-domain approach (PREDICAMENT)’.

Lead Researcher: Dr Laura Elizabeth Cowley

Amount: £298,071

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2026

Host Institution: Swansea University

‘Online and Big Data in Social Care Research: Exploring risk factors for increasing rates of suicide and self-harm in children and young people’.

Lead Researcher: Dr Amanda Marchant

Amount: £300,7111

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2027

Host Institution: Swansea University

Severe Period Pain Is Not Normal: A Realist Evaluation of Severe Period Pain Management in Primary Care Across the Reproductive Life Course in Wales

Lead Researcher: Dr Robyn Jackowich

Amount: £269,577

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2025

Host Institution: Cardiff University

PRECIOUS (PREterm Caesarean/vaginal birth & IVH/OUtcomeS) Study: Does mode of birth reduce the risk of death or brain injury in very preterm babies?

Lead Researcher: Dr David Odd

Amount: £183,738

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/04/2025

Host Institution: Cardiff University

Developing Peer Led Movement-based Intervention to Improve Physical and Psychological Outcomes for Survivors of Torture and Trauma in Wales and Beyond (Peer-MIST)

Lead Researcher: Dr Paula Foscarini-Craggs

Amount: £218,626

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2025

Host Institution: Cardiff University

Early detection of anastomotic leak after colorectal surgery

Lead Researcher: Professor Matthias Eberl

Amount: £145,684

Start date: 01/01/2024

End date: 31/12/2025

Host Institution: Cardiff University

Investigations into Cold Stored Platelets for Pre-Hospital Emergency Resuscitation

Lead Researcher: Dr Jamie Nash

Amount: £74,546

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2024

Improving the Long Term Immune Response to the Flu Vaccine (IRFLUVA)

Lead Researcher: Dr Lucy Jones

Amount: £274,618

Start date: 01/09/2023

End date: 30/11/2025

Host Institution: Cardiff University

Feasibility of developing personalised treatment pathways for relief of plantar heel pain using a sequential multiple assignment randomised trial (SMART) study design.

Lead Researcher: Dr Nia Jones

Amount: £195,131

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2025

Host Institution: Cardiff & Vale University Health Board

Hospital to Community; The value to stakeholders of community Low Vision Optometrists providing certification of visual impairment in cases of Dry Age Related Macular Degeneration

Lead Researcher: Mrs Rhianon Reynolds

Amount: £230,000

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 30/09/2025

Host Institution: Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Just in Case' medicines use by ambulance paramedics Responding to End of Life Care In the Community: a mixed methods study of the Experiences of Paramedics, Doctors, Family and Carers (RELIEF).

Lead Researcher: Dr Chris Moore

Amount: £226,729

Start date: 01/10/2023

End date: 31/05/2025

Host Institution: Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust

What are the service outcomes for criminally exploited children? A case study of criminally exploited children’s service journeys in two local authorities in Wales

Lead Researcher: Dr Nina Maxwell

Amount: £370,063

Start date: 01/10/2022

End date: 30/09/2024

Host Institution: Cardiff University

Development and feasibility randomised controlled pilot study of HD-DRUM - a novel motor sequence training app for people with Huntington's disease

Lead Researcher: Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley

Amount: £917,217

Start date: 01/01/2022

End date: 30/09/2026

Host Institution: Cardiff University