Grace Collins

Research Officer

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Research Interests

Grace is currently working on two NIHR School for Social Care Research-funded projects: Measuring outcomes of care homes (MOOCH); and Shared lives costs and effectiveness (SLEE). She also supports the public involvement work of the Policy Research Unit in Quality and Outcomes of Person Centred Care (QORU), as well as providing such support to other PRUs.

Grace Collins' Publications

Journal Articles

Journal Article

The quality of life of older carers and the people they support: An international scoping review (2022)

Wenjing Zhang, Stacey Rand, Alisoun Milne, Grace Collins, Barbora Silarova,

Journal Article

Applying a dyadic outcomes approach to supporting older carers and care-recipients: A qualitative study of social care professionals in England (2022)

Stacey Rand, Wenjing Zhang, Grace Collins, Barbora Silarova, Alisoun Milne

Journal Article

Care home residents' quality of life and its association with CQC ratings and workforce issues: the MiCareHQ mixed-methods study (2021)

Ann-Marie Towers, Nick Smith, Stephen Allan, Florin Vadean, Grace Collins, Stacey Rand, Jennifer Bostock, Helen Ramsbottom, Julien Forder, Stefania Lanza & Jackie Cassell.

Health Services and Delivery Research Volume

Journal Article

Quality of life in older adult care homes: Comparing office hours with out-of-office hours (2019)

Smith N, Towers AM, Palmer S, Collins G,

Journal of Long-Term Care

International Long-Term Care Policy Network

Journal Article

Exploring the views of being a proxy from the perspective of unpaid carers and paid carers: developing a proxy version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) (2019)

Caiels J, Rand S, Crowther T, Collins G, Forder J,

Springer Nature

Journal Article

A cross-sectional study exploring the relationship between regulator quality ratings and care home residents’ quality of life in England (2019)

Towers A, Palmer S, Smith N, Collins G, Allan S,

BMC, Springer Nature

Journal Article

Developing a proxy-report version of the Adult Social Care Outcome Toolkit (ASCOT) (2017)

Rand S, Caiels J, Collins G, Forder J

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes , 15:108

Journal Article

Adapting the adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) for use in care home quality monitoring: conceptual development and testing (2015)

Towers A, Holder J, Smith N, Crowther T, Netten A, Welch E, Collins G

BMC Health Services Research 15, 15:304

Project Outlines

Project Outline

Measuring Outcomes of Care Homes (MOOCH) (2016)

Towers A, Smith N, Palmer S, Collins G, Forder J

Conference presentation outputs

Conference presentation output

Developing and testing a Talking Mats symbol set to support conversations about social care-related quality of life with care home residents (2018)

Naick M, Towers A, Smith N, Palmer S, Collins G

Conference presentation output

Developing a care home quality indicator based on social care-related quality of life (2014)

Towers A, Holder J, Smith N, Crowther T, Welch E, Collins G

Blogs

Blog

Public Involvement: the benefits of a research advisory group (2016)

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Blog

MOOCH – the start of a project, from the perspective of someone who has never started a project (2016)

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