Dr Catherine Robinson - Director of AWARD N Wales

Catherine Robinson is Director of AWARD's North Wales section. She is based in the Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, University of Wales Bangor. Her research experience spans a range of research methods with particular emphasis on participative and qualitative research. The research team she leads in North Wales is involved in a programme of carer research, funded by the Big Lottery, the Department of Health and the Wales Office of Research and Development. Her current research builds upon previous work concerned with assessment and care management, domiciliary care and the interface between health and social care. Her research benefits from strong and effective relationships with managers and practitioners in statutory and voluntary health and social care agencies in Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom.

Other roles
Visiting Lecturer, North East Wales Institute of Higher Education

Qualifications
Psychology BA (Hons), Wales, 1987. Sociology, PhD, Wales, 2003.

Contribution to Grant Capture (£5,010,077 since 1999)

Current Grants
All Wales Alliance for Research and Development (with University of Wales Bangor, Swansea and Cardiff University) Welsh Assembly Government (£3,000,000) [£1,000,000 UWB]. Principal Investigator.

Carers for people with mental health problems: needs assessment to service provision. (with Seddon and Bowen) Community Fund (£297,000). Principal Investigator.

The modernisation of social care services: a study of the effectiveness of the National Strategy for Carers in meeting carer needs. (with Seddon, Cheung, Gaze, Jones, Phillips, Russell, Woods, Williams, and Youren) Department of Health (£331,570). Co-applicant .

A study of the effects of the Carers’ Strategy in Wales on the needs of carers and the services they receive. (with Seddon, Russell and Woods) WORD (£189,941). Co-applicant.

Selected Recent Grants
Carers in employment: Towards an integrated system of support. (with Seddon) WORD (£99, 593). Co-applicant.

Right to Respect. - with (Humphreys and O’Connell SHARP scheme National Assembly Wales) start date October 2000 (£335,000) held by Wrexham County Borough Council. Research lead.

Meeting the needs of children and young people: a multi-sectoral perspective (with Tommis and Seddon) Conwy Local Authority (£31, 501) Principal Investigator.
Integrated working with Local Health Groups. (with Elliston, Miles, Parry-Jones and Williams) WORD (£97,000) Co-applicant.

Domiciliary Social Care: Monitoring and Evaluating Standards of Provision ( with Parry-Jones and Wenger) WORD (£83,000). Co-applicant.

Assessment and Care Management: The needs of older people with a sensory impairment (with, White, Webb, and Wenger) WORD (£87,000). Principal Investigator.

Selected Publications
MacCulloch, M. J.; Bailey, J. and Robinson, C.A. (1995): Mentally disordered attackers and killers: Towards a taxonomy. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 6, 41-61.

McGrath, M., Caldock, K., Grant, G., Parry-Jones, B., Ramcharan, P. and Robinson, C.A. (1997) Care Management in Wales - Perceptions of Front-line Workers. Community Care Management and Planning Review, 5(1), 5-13.

Parry-Jones, B.; Grant, G.; McGrath, M.; Caldock, C.; Ramcharan, P. and Robinson, C.A. (1998): Stress and job satisfaction among social workers, community nurses and community psychiatric nurses: implications for the care management model, Health and Social Care in the Community, 6, 271-285.

Ramcharan, P., Grant, G., Parry-Jones, B. and Robinson, C.A. (1999) The roles and tasks of care management practitioners in Wales - revisited. Managing Community Care., 7(3), 29-37.

Ramcharan, P.; Grant, G.; Parry-Jones; B. and Robinson C.A. (1999): The perceptions of frontline workers. Community Care Management and Planning, 5, 5-13.

Robinson, C.A. (1999) "Hospital discharge planning and implementation: perceptions of older people and practitioners" 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, California, USA, November.

Robinson C.A., Seddon, D., Webb, V., Hill, J. and Soulsby, J. (2003) 'Older people with a sensory impairment: The assessment and management of care', Quality in Ageing, 4 (1) :22-31.

Robinson, C.A., Seddon, D. and Hill, J. (2002) Community Reablement: Perspectives of Older People and their Carers. Signpost, 7 (1), 17-19.

Seddon, D. and Robinson C.A. (2001): Carers of elderly people with dementia: assessment and the Carers Act. Journal of Health and Social Care in the Community, 9(3):151-158

Seddon, D. and Robinson, C.A. (in press) ‘Carers and Caregiving in the Context of Intermediate and continuing Care’ in Roe, B. and Beech, R. (Eds.) Intermediate and Continuing Care: Policy and Practice. Oxford Blackwells.

Seddon, D. and Robinson, C.A. (2004) ‘Supporting carers in paid employment: needs assessment and service provision’ Working with Older People (June 2004 edition).