Grace Collins

Research Assistant

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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

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,

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes , 17-22

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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