Kerry Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7661-2340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating of mortar has long been an intriguing yet challenging field of research. The key issue involves distinguishing archaeologically meaningful carbon, which reflects the original setting of the mortar, from various types of contaminant carbon. Recent applications of the ramped pyrolysis method, which allows for the separation of carbonates based on their thermal decomposition behaviour, have shown significant potential to overcome …
Understanding older people’s experiences of care home closure through the lenses of precarity and transition
This article addresses a gap in current evidence by examining the experiences of older people and families when care homes close. We adopt the dual lenses of the precarity of ageing and adaptation to transition to facilitate understanding of the structural and experiential dimensions of care home closure. We argue that the experiences of older people and their families of care home closure are a largely hidden example of the increasing precarity …
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating of lime lumps
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating was carried out on lime lumps from what was believed to be the oldest remains of Turku Cathedral, Finland, the first sacristy. Lumps extracted from bulk mortar from five sampling locations were analysed. For each sample, 5–6 fractions of CO2 from different temperature fractions were radiocarbon dated. One of the five samples exhibited significant contamination for its lowest temperature fractions. For the remai…
‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care
This article seeks to understand the challenges of combining the distinct aims of personalisation and integration in adult social care. Addressing the local context of service delivery in England through interviews with key stakeholders, we identify how personalisation and integration activities require different, and potentially conflicting, approaches. We observe direct tensions when structural integration with health systems distracts focus fr…
Participatory research meets validated outcome measures
Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co‐produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines t…
A game of two halves?” Understanding the process and outcomes of English care home closures
With care services increasingly delivered via a market there is always a risk that care homes could fail financially or struggle in terms of quality, ultimately having to close. When this happens, the received wisdom is that subsequent relocation can be detrimental to the health and well‐being of older residents (possibly even culminating in increased mortality). However, there is very little formal evidence in the United Kingdom (UK) or beyond t…
Reports of rationing from the neglected realm of capital investment
Health systems around the world face financial pressures that can affect sustainability and patient outcomes, and there is a vast literature devoted to the allocation of scarce health care resources. Capital spending - for example on estates, equipment and information technology - is an important but often neglected area of this literature. This study explores the constraints on the allocation of capital budgets in health care, before addressing …
The Goldilocks question
Here, we apply the ‘Goldilocks’ question to social care: what size of care provider is ‘just right’? Empirical research to date has struggled to find evidence for an optimal size for public service providers, although policymakers remain keen to suggest that size is a key aspect of organisational performance. The article makes an innovative contribution to this literature, drawing on empirical research with care providers and people who use their…
Effect of oxytocin receptor blockade on appetite for sugar is modified by social context
A wing and a prayer? Evidence for integration within social care prevention services
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it’
Public sector organisations are facing one of the most difficult financial periods in history and local decision-makers are tasked with making tough rationing decisions. Withdrawing or limiting services is an emotive and complex task and something the National Health Service has always found difficult. Over time, local authorities have gained significant experience in the closure of care homes - an equally complex and controversial issue. Drawing…
Managing Prader-Willi syndrome in families
Residential Care Transformed
Participatory research meets validated outcome measures
Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co‐produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines t…
A game of two halves?” Understanding the process and outcomes of English care home closures
With care services increasingly delivered via a market there is always a risk that care homes could fail financially or struggle in terms of quality, ultimately having to close. When this happens, the received wisdom is that subsequent relocation can be detrimental to the health and well‐being of older residents (possibly even culminating in increased mortality). However, there is very little formal evidence in the United Kingdom (UK) or beyond t…
Managing Prader-Willi syndrome in families
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating of lime lumps
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating was carried out on lime lumps from what was believed to be the oldest remains of Turku Cathedral, Finland, the first sacristy. Lumps extracted from bulk mortar from five sampling locations were analysed. For each sample, 5–6 fractions of CO2 from different temperature fractions were radiocarbon dated. One of the five samples exhibited significant contamination for its lowest temperature fractions. For the remai…
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it’
Public sector organisations are facing one of the most difficult financial periods in history and local decision-makers are tasked with making tough rationing decisions. Withdrawing or limiting services is an emotive and complex task and something the National Health Service has always found difficult. Over time, local authorities have gained significant experience in the closure of care homes - an equally complex and controversial issue. Drawing…
Reports of rationing from the neglected realm of capital investment
Health systems around the world face financial pressures that can affect sustainability and patient outcomes, and there is a vast literature devoted to the allocation of scarce health care resources. Capital spending - for example on estates, equipment and information technology - is an important but often neglected area of this literature. This study explores the constraints on the allocation of capital budgets in health care, before addressing …
Effect of oxytocin receptor blockade on appetite for sugar is modified by social context
Residential Care Transformed
Residential Care Transformed
Managing Prader-Willi syndrome in families
A wing and a prayer? Evidence for integration within social care prevention services
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it’
Public sector organisations are facing one of the most difficult financial periods in history and local decision-makers are tasked with making tough rationing decisions. Withdrawing or limiting services is an emotive and complex task and something the National Health Service has always found difficult. Over time, local authorities have gained significant experience in the closure of care homes - an equally complex and controversial issue. Drawing…
Effect of oxytocin receptor blockade on appetite for sugar is modified by social context
The Goldilocks question
Here, we apply the ‘Goldilocks’ question to social care: what size of care provider is ‘just right’? Empirical research to date has struggled to find evidence for an optimal size for public service providers, although policymakers remain keen to suggest that size is a key aspect of organisational performance. The article makes an innovative contribution to this literature, drawing on empirical research with care providers and people who use their…
Participatory research meets validated outcome measures
Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co‐produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines t…
A game of two halves?” Understanding the process and outcomes of English care home closures
With care services increasingly delivered via a market there is always a risk that care homes could fail financially or struggle in terms of quality, ultimately having to close. When this happens, the received wisdom is that subsequent relocation can be detrimental to the health and well‐being of older residents (possibly even culminating in increased mortality). However, there is very little formal evidence in the United Kingdom (UK) or beyond t…
Reports of rationing from the neglected realm of capital investment
Health systems around the world face financial pressures that can affect sustainability and patient outcomes, and there is a vast literature devoted to the allocation of scarce health care resources. Capital spending - for example on estates, equipment and information technology - is an important but often neglected area of this literature. This study explores the constraints on the allocation of capital budgets in health care, before addressing …
‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care
This article seeks to understand the challenges of combining the distinct aims of personalisation and integration in adult social care. Addressing the local context of service delivery in England through interviews with key stakeholders, we identify how personalisation and integration activities require different, and potentially conflicting, approaches. We observe direct tensions when structural integration with health systems distracts focus fr…
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating of lime lumps
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating was carried out on lime lumps from what was believed to be the oldest remains of Turku Cathedral, Finland, the first sacristy. Lumps extracted from bulk mortar from five sampling locations were analysed. For each sample, 5–6 fractions of CO2 from different temperature fractions were radiocarbon dated. One of the five samples exhibited significant contamination for its lowest temperature fractions. For the remai…
Understanding older people’s experiences of care home closure through the lenses of precarity and transition
This article addresses a gap in current evidence by examining the experiences of older people and families when care homes close. We adopt the dual lenses of the precarity of ageing and adaptation to transition to facilitate understanding of the structural and experiential dimensions of care home closure. We argue that the experiences of older people and their families of care home closure are a largely hidden example of the increasing precarity …
Ramped pyrolysis radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating of mortar has long been an intriguing yet challenging field of research. The key issue involves distinguishing archaeologically meaningful carbon, which reflects the original setting of the mortar, from various types of contaminant carbon. Recent applications of the ramped pyrolysis method, which allows for the separation of carbonates based on their thermal decomposition behaviour, have shown significant potential to overcome …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (4 works)