Bronte Heath
University of Leeds
Bronte Heath
I am an Early Career Researcher currently employed at University of Leeds as a Research Fellow in Applied Social Care Research and Development. Working with this applied team provides me with the most suitable environment to flourish. I am part of the NICHE-Leeds partnership between care homes and academia, leading the way for shaping questions that matter with and for the sector. The role offers the opportunity to work on and apply for social care grants. This includes, joining the NIHR Adult Social Care Workforce Research Partnership (CARE-WORK), and leading on the review for the partnership’s first project exploring how social care employers attract, recruit, and retain younger people. I also support NIHR HSDR (NIHR163155) project evaluating person-centred ‘neighbourhood-based, integrated health and care’ models of home care. Additionally, I am a co-applicant on a small NIHR SSCR bid (£50K): Social Care Data And Staff engagement approacH (Social Care DASH), exploring the facilitators and barriers to social care involvement and engagement with a planned ‘learning workforce system’.
Prior to this, I worked in front-line caring roles in care homes, before moving into community outreach and research translation roles at Alzheimer’s Society. In my Senior Research Evidence Officer role, I developed policy and practice translation skills and research communication expertise. I deepened my understanding of applied research through also studying a part-time MSc in Dementia Research (UCL).
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | United Kingdom; United Kingdom (England); |
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| Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Care and social protection in Southern Africa; Care economy; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care management; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Care work and migration; Co-production in LTC; Complex interventions; Costs of LTC; Day Care; Demand for Long-Term Care; Digital Technology; Ecosystems of care; Epidemiology and ageing trajectories; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Healthcare access in LTC; Housing Adaptations; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC and younger people; LTC Policy; LTC Systems; LTC utitilisation; Minorities and LTC; Neurodegenerative conditions; Outcome measurement in LTC; Risk in Long-Term Care; Science communication; Social connection; |
| Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Assessment tool development; Case studies; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Co-production methods; Comparative policy analysis; Cost analysis; Creative research methods; Data science and LTC research; Document analysis; Economic evaluation; Ethnography; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Implementation science; Instrumental variables; Interviews; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal qualitative studies; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Observational studies; Participatory research methods; Pilot study; Policy analysis; Practice-based approaches; Prevalence study; Projections; Qualitative studies; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Research diaries; Science communication; Scoping reviews; Service mapping; Simulation models; Social media text analysis; Social Return on Investment; Surveys; Systematic Review; Taxonomy development; Text Mining; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; Time series analysis; Training materials; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; Trials and other evaluations; Vignettes and narratives; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Care home markets and regulation; Climate Change and LTC; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Continence Care in Long-Term Care; Economics of Long-Term Care; Innovation in Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Migration Mobility and Care Workers; Pain in Care Homes; Qualitative Research; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Quasi-experimental methods; Social Care Reform in England; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| ORC.ID | 0009-0003-3779-3833 |
| X (Twitter) | https://x.com/heath_bronte |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/bronte-heath-9466511b4/?originalSubdomain=uk | |
| Other 1 | https://stride-dementia.org/people/bronte-heath/; |
| Research interests | My personal research interests are in care homes, management practice, quality, recruitment and retention, and dementia. From my frontline experience, Senior Research Evidence Officer role, and current Research Fellow role, I have honed my passion into leadership in care homes, and the impact it has on the outcomes and processes that shape quality: staff retention and recruitment, resident wellbeing, CQC scores, overall satisfaction of residents and relatives, and financial and business stability. |
| Key publications | Selected publications A 3-UK-nation survey on dementia and the cost-of-living crisis: contributions of gender and ethnicity on struggling to pay for social care; Giebel, Heath[i]. Pre-implementation planning for a new personalised, dementia post-diagnostic support intervention: exploring the perspective of professional stakeholders, Dar et al[ii]. A systematic review on the evidence of misdiagnosis in dementia and its impact on accessing dementia care, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Giebel et al.[iii] Because we’re human too: Why dementia training for care workers matters, and how to deliver it. Policy evidence report, Alzheimer’s Society. [i]Giebel, C., & Heath, B. (2023). A 3-UK-nation survey on dementia and the cost of living crisis: contributions of gender and ethnicity on struggling to pay for social care. Aging & Mental Health, 27(12), 2368–2376. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2023.2197845 [ii] Dar A, Budgett J, Zabihi S, et al. Pre-implementation planning for a new personalised, dementia post-diagnostic support intervention: exploring the perspective of professional stakeholders. BJPsych Open. 2024;10(5):e139. doi:10.1192/bjo.2024.733 [iii] http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gps.6158 |