Sinead Palmer

Research Officer

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Research Interests

Sinead Palmer is a Research Officer at PSSRU, and has a background in Psychology. She has worked in Social Care Research for eight years, and her expertise and interests focus mainly on quality of life, both in users of social care and frontline care staff. She has experience in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and her research usually involves mixed method approaches, including observational, interview and survey designs.

Sinead is a co-applicant on the current RfPB study, Developing a scale of work-related quality of life for adult social care staff (ASCOT-STAFF): Phase One. This measure will form part of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT), with which she has worked extensively in research, in addition to being an ASCOT trainer.

Sinead Palmer's Publications

Journal Articles

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

Encouraging managers of care homes for older adults to participate in research (2019)

Smith N, Towers AM, Collins G, Palmer S, Allan S, Beecham J

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

Emerald Publishing

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

Being Occupied: Supporting ‘meaningful activity’ in care homes for older people in England (2017)

Smith N, Towers A, Palmer S, Beecham J, Welch E

Ageing and Society

Journal Article

Why are relatives of care home residents reluctant to ‘rock the boat’? Is there a culture of acceptance? (2017)

Welch E, Palmer S, Towers A, Smith N

Working with Older People 21, 2, 124-132

Journal Article

Older people receiving family-based support in the community: A survey of quality of life amongst users of ‘Shared Lives’ in England (2017)

Callaghan L, Brookes N, Palmer S

Health and Social Care in the Community

Journal Article

The acceptability and feasibility of using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) to inform practice in care homes (2016)

Towers A, Smith N, Palmer S, Welch E, Netten A

BMC Health Services Research 16, 16:523

Journal Article

‘I live with other people and not alone’: a survey of the views and experiences of older people using Shared Lives (adult placement) (2016)

Brookes N, Palmer S, Callaghan L

Working with Older People 20, 3, 179-186

Project Outlines

Project Outline

Measuring Outcomes of Care Homes (MOOCH) (2016)

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

DP or working papers

DP or working paper

Developing an outcome measurement tool for Shared Lives (2015)

Callaghan L, Brookes N, Palmer S

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

Living in a care home for older adults: The family members’ experience (2014)

Welch E, Palmer S, Towers A, Smith N

British Society of Gerentology

Conference presentation output

Can feedback to care home staff help improve residents’ quality of life? (2014)

Towers A, Rider S, Smith N, Welch E

Manuscripts

Manuscript

Giving care home staff feedback on residents’ outcomes: can it be used to inform practice and improve residents’ quality of life? (2016)

Towers A, Smith N, Palmer S, Welch E