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Research interests
As a member of the Centre for Research in Health and Social Care, Demi has maintained a primary interest in the effects of an ageing population on policy development and on the capacity of the health and social systems to respond to these needs. He has conducted research into the roles and responsibilities, interactions and linkages between the market, the state, the voluntary sector and informal sector in meeting the needs of older people.
He is a member of the Faculty Research Group - Ageing Futures which examines changing life course patterns have influenced health and wellbeing, retirement and pension income, family structure, and social, economic and political participation of older people in society. He is also interested in how experiences, choices, opportunities, and constraints earlier in the life course influence quality of life and wellbeing in older age.
He is also member of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and is examining the plight of poorer pensioners in the UK, Northern Ireland and Channel Isles. As part of the PSEUK 2012 research team, Demi has lead the development of a Living Standards Index for the UK, as well as looking into changes in the prevalence and incidence of pensioner poverty and social exclusion in the UK.
Research projectsCompleted
- The distribution and dynamics of economic and social wellbeing in the UK
- Think Ahead Independent External Evaluation
- DfE Longitudinal Evaluation of the Step Up to Social Work Programme
- The first years in children’s social work: National evaluation of the Newly Qualified Social Worker and the Early Professional Development Pilot programmes
- Evaluation of early professional development pilot programme for children's social workers
- Liberty, equality, capacity: The impact of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) on human rights and social care practice
- Poverty and social exclusion in the UK
- Understanding the social impacts of UK climate change policies
- Understanding social exclusion across the life course: Working age adults without dependent children (2009)
- Fuel poverty indicator for Wales
- Trends in the receipt of formal and informal care by older people with functional dependencies living at home in Britain (2007)
- Updating the Fuel Poverty Indicator for England (2007)
- Review of the multi-dimensional measurement of social exclusion (2006)
- Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey Northern Ireland Dataset (2003)
- Guernsey Survey of Relative Poverty (2002)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Follow-on Evaluation of the Drive Project – a Flagship Intervention to Address High-risk, High-harm Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Following the successful rollout of the Drive Project – a Flagship Intervention to Address High-risk, High-harm Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse, we are now evaluating three years’ of DRIVE implementation to…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/09/2023 to 30/08/2025
Models of Meals on Wheels provision in England: a rapid review
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
The aim of the proposed NIHR Research Capability Funding project is to conduct a rapid review of the grey literature, in order to document existing models of provision of the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
27/03/2023 to 31/07/2023
Unrestricted programme support on Understanding and Responding to Coercive Control
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The project addresses a series of important issues in tackling domestic violence and abuse that have not previously been dealt with to any extent, relating specifically to emerging forms of…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/10/2020 to 30/09/2022
The distribution and dynamics of economic and social wellbeing in the UK: An analysis of the recession using multidimensional indicators of living standards
Principal Investigator
Description
Income based measures of standards of living do not capture the full extent of economic advantage and disadvantage in society. Analyses using multidimensional indicators of economic and social well-being…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
13/02/2017 to 12/10/2018
Think Ahead Independent Evaluation
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
A team from the Universities of Durham and Bristol has been commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the early implementation of the Think Ahead fast-track social work training scheme with…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/04/2016 to 31/03/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
17/04/2019INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE THINK AHEAD PROGRAMME
INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE THINK AHEAD PROGRAMME
The distribution and dynamics of economic and social wellbeing in the UK
The distribution and dynamics of economic and social wellbeing in the UK
“Strivers”, “doers”, and “seekers”
Child and Family Social Work
Cognitive impairment and homelessness
Health and Social Care in the Community
Evaluation of Step Up to Social Work, Cohorts 1 and 2: 3-years and 5-years on
Evaluation of Step Up to Social Work, Cohorts 1 and 2: 3-years and 5-years on
Recent publications
30/08/2024"I never thought I’d see the day that I would be doing things on Zoom"
Health and Social Care in the Community
Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: an analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data
Policing and Society
Need for comprehensive management of frailty at an individual level
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England
Criminology and Criminal Justice
INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE THINK AHEAD PROGRAMME
INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE THINK AHEAD PROGRAMME