Dr Maria Cheshire-Allen

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Social Care Research Fellowship Scheme (2023 - 2026)

Project title: DISC  Delivering Innovation in Social Care – The Role of the Social Enterprise Organisations in Supporting Family Carers 

Biography

Maria is a Social Care Fellowship award holder.  Her research interests include unpaid care, ageing, care inequalities, and social care markets, with a particular focus on the role of community and social enterprise organisations in the social care sector.  Her mixed methods Fellowship study aims to explore the contribution of social enterprise organisations in supporting unpaid carers.  

She has established and Chairs the Care Research Interest Group in Wales (CRIG) and is a member of the Welsh Government’s Cross-Party Group on Ageing and Older People, the British Society of Gerontology and the European Social Policy Network on Ageing.  
Prior to her Fellowship award, Maria was a Co-Investigator for the Health and Care Research Wales funded COSMO study (COVID-19 Impact on the Support and Management of COVID-19 on Older People in Wales) at Swansea Centre for Health Economics (SCHE) and worked as a Research Officer at the Centre for Ageing and Dementia (CADR). 

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