Alan is project manager for the European Commission-funded SPRINT study on social investment in long-term care. He has worked for over 21 years as Senior Research Liaison Officer within the Research and Development Directorate at the UK Department of Health (DH), project managing a large portfolio of DH-funded research contracts with universities and academics and acting as coordinator between external research teams and internal customers. Prior to this, he held a number of positions in the health field (Senior Research Officer/Operations Manager, Health Education Authority; Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London; Evaluation Officer, Turning Point [Voluntary Sector]; Research Officer, Birkbeck College, University of London).