Centre for Care V2.0 - Planning meeting 1: Time to Reflect by

What's worked?

centreforcare — 2025-09-30 15:56:02 UTC

What do we want to build on?

centreforcare — 2025-09-30 15:56:02 UTC

What's 'done'?

centreforcare — 2025-09-30 16:02:19 UTC

What hasn't worked?

centreforcare — 2025-09-30 16:02:27 UTC

Expert-led tech sessions

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:38:42 UTC

In-person days

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:39:15 UTC

Summer school (broadly) and the next generation of (international) care researchers

lfoster91 — 2025-10-02 08:39:47 UTC

Dedicated impact capacity and resource

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:40:03 UTC

Central PS team

2025-10-02 08:40:07 UTC

Dedicated ops team

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:40:19 UTC

Opportunities for research staff

nkbrookes — 2025-10-02 08:40:20 UTC

Theory-building sessions

2025-10-02 08:40:25 UTC

Establishing a brand with policy audiences - routes to policy engagement and some early signs of impact

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:40:39 UTC

'Overplanning', without a bit of capacity to be responsive

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:40:56 UTC

Opportunities and involvement of RAs - (generally) a collegiate and supportive environment.

lfoster91 — 2025-10-02 08:41:23 UTC

Flexibility of research pans

nkbrookes — 2025-10-02 08:41:30 UTC

The Capacity Building Fund has been a little haphazard - more targeted calls and strategic goals needed?

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:41:48 UTC

Building of community partnerships

2025-10-02 08:41:51 UTC

Permissive and trusting culture - saying yes to things (unless there's a good reason)

2025-10-02 08:41:52 UTC

PGR community

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:42:42 UTC

2025-10-02 08:43:10 UTC

Building connection and links between disciplinary approaches and fields of study

Hard to keep a handle on what other RGs/Ths are up to

2025-10-02 08:43:13 UTC

Research Groups & Themes structure

nkbrookes — 2025-10-02 08:43:34 UTC

Developing 'global south' partnerships

2025-10-02 08:43:40 UTC

Coproduction of research

2025-10-02 08:43:40 UTC

And dedicated coproduction resource

Responsiveness to parl consultations and impact opportunities

2025-10-02 08:43:46 UTC

We've struggled to build on international partnerships in a coherent way

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:43:47 UTC

Issues with data ownership

lfoster91 — 2025-10-02 08:43:50 UTC

capacity building — drawing in and developing PDRAs, PhDs and academic staff with little or no background in care into the discipline.

2025-10-02 08:44:02 UTC

RAs as cohesive cohort (+) but (-) is that they are perhaps in-ward looking

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:44:04 UTC

identification of major areas of evidence deficit and larger long term ambitions

2025-10-02 08:44:24 UTC

Differential levels of support/leadership in themes

lfoster91 — 2025-10-02 08:44:35 UTC

— development and application of cutting edge methods to major gaps in evidence around unpaid care

2025-10-02 08:44:53 UTC

Not 'leave behind' but we have some work to do on the website...

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:44:54 UTC

Keeness to collaborate within and without

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:45:03 UTC

2025-10-02 08:45:20 UTC

Keeping values central to what we do and how we do it

Podcasts and commentaries

2025-10-02 08:45:23 UTC

Community engagement

2025-10-02 08:46:06 UTC

Good links to Sheffield City Council

2025-10-02 08:46:32 UTC

The Voice Forum hasn't worked - but we are on it!

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:46:36 UTC

All our PhDs - hear more about their work

2025-10-02 08:46:48 UTC

The Advisory Board hasn't always advised...

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:46:52 UTC

While elements of uncertainty have been unavoidable and flexibility is important, it has felt as though quite a bit of time/energy has been spent on re-planning/paperwork.

lfoster91 — 2025-10-02 08:47:12 UTC

Hard to keep consistently updating/ meeting the original P&P partners

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:47:19 UTC

Policies/guidance that can't be applied across HEIs

nkbrookes — 2025-10-02 08:47:21 UTC

some great engagement with stakeholders and policymakers -- HoC Policy breakfast, widelyly circulated CarersUK reports etc

2025-10-02 08:47:34 UTC

2025-10-02 08:47:58 UTC

Moving away from hierarchical approaches that concentrate decision-making at the centre

Need to try to avoid the risk of constantly re-planning in context of funding uncertainty

2025-10-02 08:48:38 UTC

Some heavy handed and quite negative micromanagement in the early phases of the centre

2025-10-02 08:48:59 UTC

The creative outputs (comics, dashboards, board games) alongside the briefings for policy, practice and public engagement. How do we ensure we retain funds for/staff with this creativity?

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:49:34 UTC

weak accountability e.g. when policies and guidance are ignored

2025-10-02 08:49:53 UTC

centreforcare — 2025-10-02 08:50:11 UTC

Was everybody "all in" for our community building activities?

2025-10-02 08:50:32 UTC

Having lived experience embedded at executive and non-executive levels, and finding ways to recognise lived experience among staff

Seminars / outward facing sessions?

nathanhughes2 — 2025-10-02 08:52:35 UTC

2025-10-02 09:19:58 UTC

More diversity across all role levels across different axes/intersections