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Stacey RandStacey is a Senior Research Fellow at the PSSRU, University of Kent and is the ASCOT programme lead. She led the development of ASCOT-Carer and was also involved in developing ASCOT-ER, ASCOT-Proxy, ASCOT-ER (OP) and ASCOT-Workforce. She has led psychometric studies of a number of ASCOT measures and was involved in the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of ASCOT into Japanese, Finnish, Dutch and German. Stacey’s ongoing research interests include the application of QoL outcome measures in policy and practice, whether in national datasets, or regional or local collection and use by care providers or local authorities.
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Nick SmithNick is a Research Fellow at CHSS, University of Kent and is the ASCOT implementation lead. As part of this role, Nick leads on supporting care providers to implement ASCOT into practice, including the delivery of training for staff and organisations. Nick is also involved in researching how ASCOT can be applied to inform care practice in care homes.
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Lizzie WelchLizzie is the ASCOT Support and Engagement Officer at the PSSRU, University of Kent. Lizzie is involved in the day-to-day running of ASCOT, from licensing to delivering support and advice to ASCOT users. Lizzie was involved in the translation and cross-cultural validation of ASCOT into Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish and most recently Basque. She has also researched how ASCOT can be applied and used in care homes and has been involved in various research projects that fed into the ASCOT development.
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Ann-Marie TowersAnn-Marie is Deputy Director of the Health and Social Care Research Unit (HSCWRU) at the Policy institute, King’s College London. She is particularly interested in using ASCOT to measure the outcomes of people with cognitive impairment and communication difficulties, as well as its application by social care providers for use in care planning. Ann-Marie currently leads the development of a new ASCOT-Workforce measure, which has been piloted in a national adult social care workforce employee wellbeing survey in England. The ASCOT-workforce is designed to capture care work-related quality of life. |
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Juliette MalleyJuliette is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at LSE. Juliette was involved in the initial development of the ASCOT (SCT4/INT4), and has since led on the development of preference weights for ASCOT measures. Juliette’s main interests are in using ASCOT to research and evaluate innovations in care and the quality and performance of long-term care systems. The EXCELC project, which used ASCOT/-Carer to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of long-term care provided in private households in Austria, England and Finland, is an example of her work. |
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James CaielsJames is a Senior Research Fellow at the PSSRU, University of Kent. He led the development of the ASCOT-ER and ASCOT-Proxy. More recently, he was involved in the development of ASCOT-ER (OP), a version designed for older adults with mild-to-moderate dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and other age-related needs. Additionally, he was involved in the translation and cross-cultural validation of ASCOT-ER into German and Japanese. James’s main interest is in widening participation in social care research through the use and development of different methods. |
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Stephen AllanStephen is a Senior Research Fellow at the PSSRU, University of Kent and has been involved in a number of projects using ASCOT to assess the relationship between national quality ratings of care homes and social care outcomes of their residents. Steve is particularly interested in the use of ASCOT in economic evaluations of long term care services. |