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Dr
Paul is a specialist social care academic and researcher and Deputy Director, Social Care and Society. He leads on research capacity development in social care through: management and supervision of staff; ensuring grant funding; and strategic planning and managment.
Paul's research portfolio has included: service evaluation for adults with serious and longstanding mental health problems; older people and long-term care; psychological and social care services for military veterans; cost-effectiveness analyses (with a particular focus on social care); policy evaluations; preference elicitation studies; dementia home support; preventative assessment in adults and older people.
Paul works actively with user and carers groups in public participation and in particular evidencing new and inovative ways to promote public involvement and engagement in research. He is part of the Greater Manchester Public Community Involvement and Engagement Forum, and organisations supporting recruitment of participants to research studies. Paul is a member of the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Greater Manchester, Healthy Ageing Co-Investigator team.
For Teaching & Learning:
NURS60016 MRes Unit Quantitative design and analysis: Experimental Design 1 & 2.
Paul graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 1989 with a First Class Honours degree in Applied Social Science and worked in social care, and as a psychiatric and medical social worker, including statutory work and assessment of cases of deliberate self harm of patients attending Accident & Emergency departments. He has held research appointments previously at the Institute of Psychiatry, London and St James's Hospital, Leeds and holds an MSc in Psychiatric Social Work and a PhD in Community Medicine (Psychiatry)
Paul is an active collaborator; with university researchers internationally, local authority and health staff and third-sector organisations. Paul's current work is in the use of social care routine data, digital assessments and solutions for social care organisations, integrated data (between social care and the NHS), mental health support and mental health social work; dementia support, improving social care research capacity and supervising post-graduate students in social care research. He is a specialist senior social care research advisor for the NIHR Research Support Service and its national Specialist Centre for Social Care. And is Social Care Specialty Lead for the NIHR Northwest Regional Research Delivery Network (RDN)
Analysis of routinely collected data; home support and community initiatives for dementia; measurement of outcomes and well-being in dementia, particularly utility measurement for economic evaluation; evaluating integrated care; measurement of risk, frailty and social vulnerability in older people; cost-effectiveness analysis, with particular reference to social care; evaluating inovative public participation and involvement initatives.
Professor Catherine Robinson, Director Social Care and Society, University of Manchester
Manchester City Council
Sight & Mind CIC (Cecilia Toole, CEO), Merseyside
Professor Paul McCrone, University of Greenwich, London
Professor Will Dixon, Chair in Digital Epidemiology, University of Manchester
Made by Mortals CIC, Ashton, Greater Manchester
Professor Ian Philp, Age Care Technologies
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member, Public and Community Involvement and Engagement Champions Network BMH Athena SWAN | Public Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) Champions Network (manchester.ac.uk)
Chair, Research Sub-Group, Social Care Innovators, Institute of Health and Social Care Management
Member (social care) Mental Health Implementation Network Advisory Board, ARC South London (June 2022 – present).
Member of Senior Leadership Team, British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Ageing Business & Society Special Interest Group
Review Panel Member, NIHR Pre-doctoral Local Authority Fellowship (PLAF) scheme.
Member, National Skills for Care Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy Academic and Research Panel (January 2024 - present).
Research Partner, Age Care Technologies International ACT Assessment: ACT-ICOPE International Research Network (https://agecaretechnologies.org/); Professor Ian Philp, CEO. Winner of the 2021 Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize of the United Nations World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS).
Honorary member, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA)
Member, DEMON Network: an international network applying data science to dementia and dementia trials (DEMON | DEMON Network (demondementia.com)
Accredited Safe Researcher (41258), Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Multivariate and multivariable statistical models, including relative weights metrics, prediction analytics, calibration indices; measures of agreement; cost-effectiveness evaluation; cost-utility measurement; data envelopment analysis; performance measurement techniques; policy analysis.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External Examiner PhD, London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London)
1 Jan 2025 → …
External Examiner PhD, Southern Cross University
26 Jun 2024 → …
Social Care Specialty Lead, Clinical Research Network Greater Manchester
1 Feb 2022 → 1 Oct 2024
External Examiner MSc Global Aging, The University of Stirling
10 Sept 2020 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
Vail, A. (PI), Clarkson, P. (CoI), Edge, D. (CoI), Peters, S. (CoI), Robinson, C. (CoI) & Elliott, R. (CoI)
1/10/23 → 30/09/28
Project: Research
Clarkson, P. (PI) & Philp, I. (CoI)
16/06/20 → 15/06/25
Project: Other
Robinson, C. (PI), Clarkson, P. (PI), Mcphillips, R. (Researcher), Sharma, V. (PI), Batool, S. (Researcher), Forsyth, K. (Researcher), Murray, C. (Researcher), Malik, B. (Researcher), Hargreaves, C. (Researcher), Roberts, A. (Researcher), Allen, R. (Researcher), Pearson, A. (Researcher), Wood, D. (PGR student), Ramesh, P. (PGR student), O'Neill, A. (Researcher), Davies, S. (Researcher) & Stalker, K. (Researcher)
4/10/19 → …
Project: Research
Clarkson, P. (PI), Davies, S. (CoI), Robinson, C. (CoI) & Stalker, K. (Researcher)
1/01/24 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
Clarkson, P. (PI), Hine, P. (PI), Morbey, H. (CoI), Halliday, E. (CoI), Wheeler, P. (CoI), Majeed, S. (CoI) & Kaye, S. (CoI)
1/08/23 → 31/07/24
Project: Research
(Participant), (Participant), Clarkson, P. (Participant), (Participant) & (Participant)
Impact: Health impacts
Clarkson, P. (Creator), Davies, S. (Creator), Shields, G. (Creator), Toole, C. (Creator), Sheriff, I. (Creator) & Kaye, S. (Creator), University of Manchester, 8 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.48420/22010672, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_from_the_Evi-Dem_Study_Effective_Home_Support_in_Dementia_Care/22010672 and one more link, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_from_the_Evi-Dem_Study_Effective_Home_Support_in_Dementia_Care/22010672/1 (show fewer)
Dataset
Clarkson, P. (Creator) & Davies, S. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 29 Apr 2024
DOI: 10.48420/25703187, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/software/_b_Developing_a_Social_Care_Strengths_and_Vulnerability_Index_SC-SVI_for_older_people_b_Code_for_prediction_analysis_in_local_authority_Adult_Social_Care_organisations_to_inform_analysis_and_tool_development/25703187
Dataset
Clarkson, P. (Creator), Butt, A. (Creator), Malik, B. (Creator), Eley, R. (Creator), Toole, C. (Creator), Sanders, C. (Creator) & Sheriff, I. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 28 Mar 2024
DOI: 10.48420/25483270, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_and_anonymised_case_vignettes_from_the_study_Judgements_about_carer_assessments_for_carers_of_people_with_dementia/25483270
Dataset