People

Catherine is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC. Catherine’s research interests include psychosocial interventions for people with dementia, the cost-effectiveness of assistive technologies in managing long-term health and social care needs, intermediate care, residential care provision, and resource allocation within residential and nursing homes.

c.henderson@lse.ac.uk

Fiona is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Research. She is based in the NIHR ARC North Thames as 'Senior Research Associate in Qualitative Methods Applied to Organisational Research in Health' where, as part of the ARC North Thames' Research Partnership Team, she helps facilitate and support health and social care research with local, regional and national relevance. She is also the social care research lead for NIHR LCRN North Thames.

f.aspinal@ucl.ac.uk

Jennifer leads public involvement and steers involvement for REABLE-M. Jennifer’s background is in public involvement, ethics, mental health law and the healthcare inspectorate. She chairs a Research Ethics Committee and is ethics advisor and trainer to a number of organisations. She sits on a number of funding and advisory panels, and chairs an NHS ICB wellbeing board. She sits on the editorial board of Health Expectations and has worked for the medico-legal and regulatory inspectorate and assessment for the CQC, RCGP and currently for the Royal College of Surgeons. Jennifer’s interest in social care comes from living with a complex long term condition and caring for parents with complex health and social care needs.

j.bostock@lse.ac.uk 

Nicola is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC. Nicola's interests focus on unpaid care, youth mental health, health inequalities, and children’s and young people’s services. Other work includes an economic evaluation of youth mental health services, a study of the benefits and potential cost savings of early years’ prevention services and support and a study on the long-term economic impacts of bullying in childhood.

n.s.brimblecombe@lse.ac.uk

Javiera is Research Fellow within CPEC. Javiera is an economist who has worked across a spectrum of policy areas using several micro-econometrics techniques and policy-evaluation methodologies. Her research at CPEC focuses on geographical inequalities in health, wellbeing, and social care, as well as the economic evaluation of social-care services.

J.F.Cartagena-Farias@lse.ac.uk

Jose-Luis is Director of CPEC. He is a health and social care economist specialising in ageing-related policies, the analysis of health and social care funding systems, service productivities, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care services. He has contributed to key health and social care evaluations.

j.fernandez@lse.ac.uk

Jayeeta is Research Officer within CPEC. Her key research interests include ageing and social care, mental health and measuring health system performance. 

j.rajagopalan@lse.ac.uk

Madeleine is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE. Madeleine is a mixed-methods researcher in the fields of social care and mental health. Her research interests are in services for adults, children, and young people; community and family support; unpaid care; children’s behaviour problems; parenting; youth mental health; social exclusion; and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

m.stevens@lse.ac.uk

Edmund is Research Officer within CPEC at LSE. 

e.stubbs@lse.ac.uk

Phillip is Senior Research Fellow within the School for Business and Society at the University of York. He is an occupational therapist by professional background and his experience of practice in social care underpins his research. As an occupational therapist Phillip worked in a variety of roles including in community neurological services, older peoples' team, mainstream community team and rapid response. He began his career in social care as a homecare worker and therefore has a thorough and experiential understanding of front line social care provision.

phillip.whitehead@york.ac.uk

Gerald is Visiting Professor within CPEC at LSE. 

g.wistow@lse.ac.uk