Ailsa Cameron
- Senior Lecturer - BSc (Exon) MSc
- Centre for Research in Health and Social Care
- Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6707
- Email: A.Cameron@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Ailsa Cameron is Head of the Centre for Research in Health and Social Care. She is primarily a qualitative researcher working in the areas of health and social care. Ailsa is currently working with colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a Department of Health funded project, "Evaluation of Community Foundation Trusts" and is also part of the team evaluating the use of Healthy Start vouchers for the Department of Health. Ailsa is also part of the ESRC funded project "Maintaining dignity in later life".
Ailsa's previous research projects include:
- Making the most of policy evaluations (funded by Department of Health)
- An evaluation of the supporting people health pilots (funded by Office of the Deputy Prime Minister now Communities and Local Government)
- An evaluation of choice based lettings pilot programme (funded by Office of the Deputy Prime Minister now Communities and Local Government)
- A systematic review of the factors promoting and obstacles hindering joint working between health and social care (funded by the South and West NHS Executive R&D programme)
- An evaluation of Housing Corporation and Anchor's 'Crossing the Housing and Care Divide' programme
- A review of information on the health of Travellers in the South West Region, (funded by South West Public Health Observatory).
In 2000 she completed a national evaluation of the development of new professional roles for nurses and the professions allied to medicine on behalf of the Department of Health.
Ailsa is a member of an NHS Local Research Ethics Committee.
Teaching interests
Research methods, research ethics, theories of joint working, inter-professional practice.
Research interests
Changing professional roles and the emergence of new professions within welfare services. Health and social care interface and the development of the mixed economy of care. The housing contribution to community care. Joint working within public policy.
Research projects
Current
- The Bristol TARA project: a longitudinal study of the service use and need of homeless women
- Evaluation of Community Foundation Trust Programme
- Exploring family experiences of services for disadvantaged two-year-olds in children's centres in Bristol
- Healthy start - understanding the use of vouchers
- Maintaining dignity in later life: A longitudinal qualitative study of older people’s experiences of supportive care
Completed
- Women's mapping project and evaluation of the Women's Night Centre (2010)
- Making the most of policy evaluations: Overview and synthesis of evaluation of the white paper 'Our health, Our care, Our say' (2009)
- Supporting people health pilots evaluation (2007)
- Monitoring and evaluation of the choice based lettings pilots (2003)
- Promoting gender equality in health (2003)