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Melika Malone-Lee

National Children's Bureau (Research in Practice, adults)


Melika Malone-Lee

I manage a team of colleagues writing and commissioning sector experts, practitioners and people with lived experience to deliver and support evidence informed social justice focused programmes of work. With a focus on policy development and its practical application, equality and human rights are at the heart of this work designed to support policy, systems and practice improvement across a range of health and social care organisations.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries United Kingdom; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales);
Topics Access to care; Ageing in place; Artificial Intelligence; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; Costs of LTC; Culturally appropriate LTC; Day Care; Deinstitutionalisation; Dementia care and support; Eligibility for public LTC; Employment education and family carers; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; Gender and care; Housing and care; Loneliness among older people; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC and younger people; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC Workforce; Minorities and LTC; New models of care; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Parent carers; Perinatal mental health; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Priority setting in LTC; Quality of care; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Protection; Stigma and discrimination; Universal design and LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; Workforce capability; Workforce pay and conditions; Younger carers;
Methods Case studies; Focus groups; Interviews; Knowledge-exchange; Legal analysis; Participatory research methods; Policy analysis; Practice-based approaches; Scoping reviews; Theory of Change; Training materials; Vignettes and narratives;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Employment Education and Family carers; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Social Care Reform in England; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability;
Websitehttps://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/melikamalone-lee.bsky.social
LinkedInhttps://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/events-learning/2025/july/children-s-information-project-using-generative-ai-in-case-recording/
Research interests

Our organisation works with researchers and other experts to create materials and events that disseminate and triangulate research findings, evidence from the wider sector and what we know from the experiences of people with lived experience.

Key publications

Research in Practice has a range of publications available: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/publications/