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Poster with wording NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Two postdoctoral fellowships awarded to support social care research

Tom Ryan, from the School of Education, and Louis Stokes from the Neuroscience Institute will be joining the SSCR in Sheffield as SSCR Post-Doctoral Research Fellows.
Participants in the SSCR easy read workshop

SSCR hosts workshop to create Shared Easy Read Glossary Through Collaboration

Read our accessible summary, and workshop reflections from our SSCR summer intern Miranda!
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Sheffield Awardees attend the SSCR Career Development Day!

Research Trainee Elsie Ledger and PhD Student Ben Vass reflect on recent SSCR training on change and taking control of your career.

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SSCR Research Trainees sharpen their skills in evidence synthesis methods

Elsie and Mari-Liis gained a valuable introduction to conducting systematic literature reviews and the principles behind searching for evidence in a thorough and transparent way.
Atttendees of the SSCR host National Care Forum Away Day

SSCR hosts the first in-person away day for the National Care Forum (NCF)

The Sheffield School for Social Care Research (SSCR) were very happy to host the National Care Forum’s Learning Disability Community of Practice Forum Away Day.

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Sheffield colleagues take their findings to Parliament

Sheffield SSCR Capacity Building Lead Dr Liz Croot and colleagues take their work on Individual Service Funds (ISFs) to parliament and urge MPs to take action.

University of Sheffield's Centre for Care Hosts Baroness Casey Commission

Our Centre for Care colleagues Host Baroness Casey Commission

51²è¹Ý¶ù's Centre for Care, alongside Sheffield City Council, recently hosted Baroness Louise Casey and her team as part of the independent Casey Commission, which aims to create a better and fairer adult social care system.
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SSCR Awardee Conference Day

On October 21, the PhD students and research trainee for the School for Social Care Research visited Leeds for a conference and training day, meeting over 20 other SSCR Awardees from partnering universities and learning more about the School.
Group photograph of Sheffield’s NIHR SSCR team

EasyRead Photosymbols Training for SSCR!

On October 1st, a group of colleagues from Sheffield’s NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) got together in the Wave to receive some training from the Co-Founder of the EasyRead Photosymbols Library, Pete Le Grys.