Andrew Harding

Andrew Harding

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  • Doctoral Researcher
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Biography

I am currently undertaking a doctoral research project with Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC). Based in London, EAC coordinate the FirstStop service which provides information and advice to older people (and other stakeholders) on housing and care issues. My research is focused on older people's agency practices around use of FirstStop telephone information and advice on housing and what impact it has on their decision-making and associated outcomes.

This project reflects my wider research interests, on UK welfare markets/agency and builds on previous work on patient choice in the NHS and the personalisation agenda in social care.

After my MSc from the University of Southampton I was a research assistant in HSC from 2010 to 2013. I have experience in writing (and in some instances leading on) research proposals, research grants and undertaking research on informing health and social care practice. I also lead seminars on the MSc Public Health programme.

I am also the Founder, Journal Manager, Editor and a Section Editor of eBU: Online Journal - an internal BU working paper journal that works on the basis of immediate publication and open peer review...

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Research

I am currently undertaking a doctoral research project with Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC). Based in London, EAC coordinates the FirstStop service which provides information and advice to older people (or their family) on housing and care issues. My research is focused on the impact of the FirstStop information and advice service.

Journal Articles

Conferences

  • Harding, A., 2016. Agency and the welfare consumer: efficacy of information and advice on housing for older people. In: Social Policy Association: Social Policy: Radical, Resistant, Resolute 4-6 July 2016 Belfast Metropolitan College.
  • Harding, A., 2016. Efficacy of telephone information and advice on housing for older people: a realist evaluation. In: Housing Studies Association: Housing at the extremes: austerity, prosperity and systems change 6-8 April 2016 University of York.
  • Rosser, E., Hemingway, A., Harding, A., Cooper, K., Donaldson, I., Heaslip, V., Jack, E., Phillips, J., Scammell, J. and White, S., 2013. Do students enter nursing programmes with a caring disposition? An exploration of the qualities and values held by students entering pre-registration nursing in one English University. In: 24th International Networking for Healthcare Education 3-5 September 2013 Cambridge, UK. 3.9.13.
  • Phillips, J., Cooper, K., Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., Hemingway, A., Jack, E. and Harding, A., 2013. To explore the impact of a humanising curriculum on new nursing recruits' personal beliefs about the core values of nursing. In: 24th International Networking for Healthcare Education 3-5 September 2013 Cambridge, UK.
  • Rosser, E., Hemingway, A., Harding, A., Cooper, K., Donaldson, I., Heaslip, V., Jack, E., Phillips, J., Scammell, J. and White, S., 2013. Putting patients at the heart of nursing care: an exploratory study of student values entering pre-registration nursing in one UK University. In: Inaugural Phi Mu Chapter conference 20-21 June 2013 Bournemouth UK. 20.6.13.

Reports

  • Hean, S., Harding, A. and Cash, M., 2013. Identification Of Key Characteristics Of A Care Coordination Model And Potential Service Models Of Delivery. School of Health and Social Care: Bournemouth University.
  • Parker, J., Crabtree, S.A. and Harding, A., 2013. Ignite: Independent Evaluation of a Bournemouth Churches Housing Association Social Programme. Centre for Social Work & Social Policy, Bournemouth University.

Internet Publications

Theses

Posters

  • Harding, A., 2016. Efficacy of Third Sector Telephone Housing Options Service For Older People:A Realist Evaluation. In: The 2nd International Conference on Realist Evaluation and Synthesis: Advancing Principles, Strengthening Practice.
  • Harding, A., 2015. Telephone Information & Advice on Reassessing the Home in later life - Efficacy: why, how, for whom & in what context? In: The state of the art of realist methodologies conference.

Profile of Teaching PG

  • MSc Public Health

Grants

  • Promoting Dignity through understanding Narratives (Economic Social Research Council, 02 Nov 2013). Awarded
  • The power of narrative and stories in enabling learning for professional practice (Higher Education Academy, 16 Apr 2013). Completed
  • Ignite: Evaluation of a social project (British Churches Housing Association (BCHA), 01 Aug 2012). Awarded

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • ESRC Festival of Social Science 2015 (14 Nov 2015)

Conference Presentations

  • Social Policy: Radical, Resistant, Resolute, Agency and the welfare consumer: efficacy of information and advice on housing for older people, 04 Jul 2016, Belfast
  • Housing at the extremes: austerity, prosperity and systems change, Efficacy of telephone information & advice on housing for older people: A Realist Evaluation, 06 Apr 2016, University of York
  • PGR Conference, Instrumentally rational older people’s agency around use, impact and outcomes of information and advice on housing: Conceptual, methodological & research considerations, 20 Jan 2014, Bournemouth

Qualifications

  • MSc in Governance & Policy (University of Southampton, 2011)
  • BA (Hons) in History & Politics (University of Leicester, 2007)

Honours

  • Politics & International Relations Best MSc Dissertation Prize 2010/11 (University of Southampton, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2012)

Memberships

  • Housing Studies Association, Member,
  • Social Policy Association, Member,