Join Nightingale Hammerson, leading experts in residential, nursing, dementia and palliative care, as we explore the future of care and the importance of research in care homes.
Hammerson House, Wohl Campus
50A The Bishops Avenue, London N2 0BE
Our speakers
Raphael Wittenberg
Paying for social care: different approaches and public preferences
Raphael Wittenberg is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Until 2024 he was also Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation (CHSEO) at the University of Oxford. At CPEC, he leads a programme of research on financing long-term care, which aims to make projections of future demand for long-term care and associated expenditure. He also leads research on provision of unpaid care and attitudes to caring and modelling work for studies of dementia care.
Professor Laura Shallcross
The VIVALDI Social Care project
Laura Shallcross is Professor of Public health and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Informatics.  She led the national VIVALDI (COVID-19 in care homes) study which informed the public health response to COVID-19 in care homes,  and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) Social Care working group. 
Professor Kate Hamblin
Digital technologies in Care Homes: challenges and opportunities
Kate Hamblin is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Care. She joined the University of Sheffield in 2018 to work on the Sustainable Care programme. She also currently leads the Centre for Care’s Digital Care research theme and is the UK Networks and geographical lead for the North and East-Midlands in the IMProving Adult Care Together (IMPACT) evidence implementation Centre. She is also the Policy and Practice Liaison lead for the NIHR School for Social Care Research at the University of Sheffield. Her research has focused on technology and its role in the care of older people with complex needs.
Michelle Dyson CB
Michelle Dyson worked as the Director General of Adult Social Care in the Department of Health and Social Care between September 2020 and July 2025. As the top civil servant leading on adult social care, she was responsible for advising Ministers on policy, for delivering reform into the adult social care system and for operational oversight of the adult social care system. Prior to this Michelle worked as a senior civil servant in different roles in the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Education, always with a focus on social policy/delivery particularly as regards disadvantaged groups. Michelle is a qualified solicitor and spent the first part of her Civil Service career as a government lawyer.
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