Caroline Southgate

Managing Director, Doris Jones Ltd

Caroline Southgate MCSP is a physiotherapist and founder of Doris Jones Ltd, a home care company named after her grandmother. In 2019, Doris Jones achieved an Outstanding CQC rating and has grown within the Southend on sea area to care for over 120 older adults with a team of 70. Caroline had a Fellowship with NICE and is a Board Member of the Home care Association. Caroline is interested in how the future of care at home will develop and is keen to bring physiotherapists into the sector as he legacy to her own profession.

Professor Miriam Johnson

Professor of Palliative Medicine, Hull York Medical School

Miriam Johnson is Professor of Palliative Medicine at Hull York Medical School, Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and at the Manipal Academy for Higher Education, Karnataka, India. Her interests include palliative care service provision at the end-of-life, and is Co-Chief Investigator of an National Institute for Health and Care Research funded project exploring the experience, training and support needs of social homecare workers providing end-of-life care.

Professor Carol Atkinson

Professor of Human Resource Management, Manchester Metropolitan University

Carol is Professor of Human Resource Management, based in Manchester Metropolitan University Business School’s Centre for Decent Work and Productivity. Carol’s research interests centre on creating decent work, particularly for the adult social care workforce, and she is currently working on a number National Institute for Health and Care (NIHR) funded projects around this. Carol’s most recent NIHR report was on pay in adult social care (Research: Investigating variation in pay in adult social care | Manchester Metropolitan University) and she has also written reports for Welsh Government, Skills for Care and Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

Professor Jane Murphy

Professor of Nutrition and Deputy Dean for Research, Bournemouth University

Jane is Professor of Nutrition, Registered Nutritionist and Dietitian, and Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University. Her primary research interests are committed to promoting healthy ageing through better food and nutrition in older people, leading studies working with collaborators in the UK and internationally including Uppsala University in Sweden.

Jane has funded projects to improve food and nutritional care for people with dementia receiving home care (TOMATO project (nuTritiOn and deMentia AT hOme), older people living in care homes (REFRESH trial) and older people from diverse ethnic communities across the country (TANGERINE study).

Dr Florin Vadean

Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent

Dr Florin Vadean is Senior Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), University of Kent. He has a PhD in economics and has led or co-led studies on geographic differences in social care needs, the relationship between wages and labour supply in Adult Social Care, as well as the impact of social care services and staff employment conditions on care outcomes. Currently he is part of the management teams of the NIHR Adult Social Care Policy Research Unit and the NIHR Workforce Research Partnership in Social Care, and social care co-lead of the Health Foundation funded REAL Supply Research Unit.