Paul Clarkson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Clarkson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarkson |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0778-312X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Novel Sizing Method for Analysing Amphibians from Archaeological Sites
Amphibians from archaeological sites are used to assess palaeoenvironments but rarely investigated to answer archaeological questions other than consumption. They can, however, yield important information about site occupation, land use, and the environment. We developed a sizing method to understand how and why amphibians were deposited in pit F76 under the Medieval Manor of Lower Putton Lane, England, which allowed us to answer broader question…
High-resolution geophysical monitoring of moisture accumulation preceding slope movement—a path to improved early warning
Slope failures are an ongoing global threat leading to significant numbers of fatalities and infrastructure damage. Landslide impact on communities can be reduced using efficient early warning systems to plan mitigation measures and protect elements at risk. This manuscript presents an innovative geophysical approach to monitoring landslide dynamics, which combines electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and low-frequency distributed acoustic sen…
Engaging Stakeholders in Realist Programme Theory Building
Dementia - Personalised Care Team' (D-PACT) is a five-year NIHR funded programme, using realist methods to develop and evaluate a complex, person-centred intervention for people with dementia and their carers. During the early project stages, we engaged with multiple stakeholders, including people with dementia and their carers, to develop an initial programme theory (IPT) - into an elaborated programme theory (EPT), by helping to uncover interve…
Person‐centredness in the community care of older people
‘Person‐centredness’ is a ubiquitous term, employed in modern care services to signify policies and practices that attend to the uniqueness of each individual user. Despite being highly regarded in older adult community care services, there is much ambiguity over its precise meaning. Existing reviews of person‐centredness and its attributes have tended to focus on the medico‐nursing literature, neglecting other interpretations, such as those rele…
Exploring the Contribution of Self-Assessment to Preventative Services in Social Care
Prevention, comprising services that seek to delay deterioration of existing conditions and circumstances or prevent their occurrence by early access to support, is recognised as having an important role in adult social care. The gateway to social care services has traditionally been via needs-led assessments undertaken with professionals. In England, self-assessment, promoted as a means of accessing services more independently, has come to the f…
The Pursuit of Integration in the Assessment of Older People with Health and Social Care Needs
The provision of timely and effective services for older people with health and social care needs is dependent on the collection of accurate assessment information being shared with relevant agencies and accepted by them. This requires an integrated assessment approach capable of spanning the longstanding institutional separation between health and social care agencies present in England. This article considers the extent to which this has been a…
Comparing How to Compare
Comparative performance evaluation has taken different forms depending upon the purposes of performance monitoring and the types of measures available. This paper investigates the different performance measurement systems in place in the social care setting, in particular for older people receiving community care services. In England, earlier systems to assist performance management within organizations have been eclipsed by national systems of r…
Comprehensive assessment of older people with complex care needs
The quality of assessment of older people with health and social care needs has for some time been a concern of policy makers, practitioners, older people and carers in the United Kingdom and internationally. This article seeks to address a key aspect of these concerns, namely whether sufficient expertise is deployed when, as a basis for a care plan and service allocation, an older person's eligibility for local authority adult social-care servic…
Performance Measurement in Adult Social Care
Approaches arising from the publication of performance data for adult social care in the UK nationally have led to unintended and often perverse consequences. A case is made in this paper for examining locally-based models, which offer substantial benefits to both managers and practitioners, and by extension, service users. Whilst there is no shortage of statements outlining the intentions behind monitoring performance in this setting, actual evi…
Targeting, Care Management and Preventative Services for Older People
As social services councils face a more constrained economic environment and as eligibility criteria tighten, the issue of targeting becomes increasingly relevant. This paper presents findings from a pilot project in one local authority that aimed to target access to assessment for older people with low-level needs who would normally have fallen under eligibility thresholds. Self-assessment was used as a tool whereby these older people could iden…
Has social care performance in England improved? An analysis of performance ratings across social services organisations
The PSP Discussion Paper Series aims to disseminate innovative and, as yet, unpublished writing in order to generate public service centred discussion. This paper is a work in progress and we hope that its presentation here will be beneficial for the author in improving this piece on its way to publication. The opinions expressed are those of the author, not the PSP, nor the ESRC. This piece may not be reproduced without the expressed consent of …
Performance Measurement in Social Care
Performance measurement in social care is now considerably more advanced than previously. However, measurement is criticised on the basis of its presentation as neutral when, in the UK, it is part of the government's regulatory regime. However, measurement is important, especially when alternative methods may bring about different rankings of authorities to those endorsed by the recent system. This paper explores this issue through analyses of co…
Specialist clinical assessment of vulnerable older people
‘Caring for carers’ is high on the United Kingdom policy agenda for community care. Although recent policy advocates the provision of services directly to the carer, research suggests that an alternative way of helping carers is through targeting enhanced services towards the cared-for person. This paper reports a randomised controlled trial of the effects on carer distress of an additional specialist clinical assessment for vulnerable older peop…
The potential impact of changes in public funding for residential and nursing-home care in the United Kingdom
The pursuit of independence and avoidance of unnecessary care-home admissions are key elements of British government policy for the care of older people. The present government's objective to maintain independence has been compromised by the ‘Residential Allowance’ which, as a component of social security payable to residents in independent-sector homes, could be seen as an incentive to place people in care-homes rather than seek care-at-home. In…
County waste minimization programmes
The UK Sustainable Development Strategy requires that society strive to make prudent use of natural resources so as to protect the environment and maintain high and stable levels of economic growth and employment. The Waste Strategy for England and Wales emphasizes the need to reduce the amount of waste produced through the adoption of waste minimization methodology. Waste minimization clubs have been a key element in the UK programme to introduc…
Person‐centredness in the community care of older people
‘Person‐centredness’ is a ubiquitous term, employed in modern care services to signify policies and practices that attend to the uniqueness of each individual user. Despite being highly regarded in older adult community care services, there is much ambiguity over its precise meaning. Existing reviews of person‐centredness and its attributes have tended to focus on the medico‐nursing literature, neglecting other interpretations, such as those rele…
The Pursuit of Integration in the Assessment of Older People with Health and Social Care Needs
The provision of timely and effective services for older people with health and social care needs is dependent on the collection of accurate assessment information being shared with relevant agencies and accepted by them. This requires an integrated assessment approach capable of spanning the longstanding institutional separation between health and social care agencies present in England. This article considers the extent to which this has been a…
Engaging Stakeholders in Realist Programme Theory Building
Dementia - Personalised Care Team' (D-PACT) is a five-year NIHR funded programme, using realist methods to develop and evaluate a complex, person-centred intervention for people with dementia and their carers. During the early project stages, we engaged with multiple stakeholders, including people with dementia and their carers, to develop an initial programme theory (IPT) - into an elaborated programme theory (EPT), by helping to uncover interve…
Comprehensive assessment of older people with complex care needs
The quality of assessment of older people with health and social care needs has for some time been a concern of policy makers, practitioners, older people and carers in the United Kingdom and internationally. This article seeks to address a key aspect of these concerns, namely whether sufficient expertise is deployed when, as a basis for a care plan and service allocation, an older person's eligibility for local authority adult social-care servic…
Performance Measurement in Adult Social Care
Approaches arising from the publication of performance data for adult social care in the UK nationally have led to unintended and often perverse consequences. A case is made in this paper for examining locally-based models, which offer substantial benefits to both managers and practitioners, and by extension, service users. Whilst there is no shortage of statements outlining the intentions behind monitoring performance in this setting, actual evi…
Targeting, Care Management and Preventative Services for Older People
As social services councils face a more constrained economic environment and as eligibility criteria tighten, the issue of targeting becomes increasingly relevant. This paper presents findings from a pilot project in one local authority that aimed to target access to assessment for older people with low-level needs who would normally have fallen under eligibility thresholds. Self-assessment was used as a tool whereby these older people could iden…
Has social care performance in England improved? An analysis of performance ratings across social services organisations
The PSP Discussion Paper Series aims to disseminate innovative and, as yet, unpublished writing in order to generate public service centred discussion. This paper is a work in progress and we hope that its presentation here will be beneficial for the author in improving this piece on its way to publication. The opinions expressed are those of the author, not the PSP, nor the ESRC. This piece may not be reproduced without the expressed consent of …
The potential impact of changes in public funding for residential and nursing-home care in the United Kingdom
The pursuit of independence and avoidance of unnecessary care-home admissions are key elements of British government policy for the care of older people. The present government's objective to maintain independence has been compromised by the ‘Residential Allowance’ which, as a component of social security payable to residents in independent-sector homes, could be seen as an incentive to place people in care-homes rather than seek care-at-home. In…
County waste minimization programmes
The UK Sustainable Development Strategy requires that society strive to make prudent use of natural resources so as to protect the environment and maintain high and stable levels of economic growth and employment. The Waste Strategy for England and Wales emphasizes the need to reduce the amount of waste produced through the adoption of waste minimization methodology. Waste minimization clubs have been a key element in the UK programme to introduc…
Performance Measurement in Social Care
Performance measurement in social care is now considerably more advanced than previously. However, measurement is criticised on the basis of its presentation as neutral when, in the UK, it is part of the government's regulatory regime. However, measurement is important, especially when alternative methods may bring about different rankings of authorities to those endorsed by the recent system. This paper explores this issue through analyses of co…
County waste minimization programmes
The UK Sustainable Development Strategy requires that society strive to make prudent use of natural resources so as to protect the environment and maintain high and stable levels of economic growth and employment. The Waste Strategy for England and Wales emphasizes the need to reduce the amount of waste produced through the adoption of waste minimization methodology. Waste minimization clubs have been a key element in the UK programme to introduc…
The potential impact of changes in public funding for residential and nursing-home care in the United Kingdom
The pursuit of independence and avoidance of unnecessary care-home admissions are key elements of British government policy for the care of older people. The present government's objective to maintain independence has been compromised by the ‘Residential Allowance’ which, as a component of social security payable to residents in independent-sector homes, could be seen as an incentive to place people in care-homes rather than seek care-at-home. In…
Performance Measurement in Social Care
Performance measurement in social care is now considerably more advanced than previously. However, measurement is criticised on the basis of its presentation as neutral when, in the UK, it is part of the government's regulatory regime. However, measurement is important, especially when alternative methods may bring about different rankings of authorities to those endorsed by the recent system. This paper explores this issue through analyses of co…
Specialist clinical assessment of vulnerable older people
‘Caring for carers’ is high on the United Kingdom policy agenda for community care. Although recent policy advocates the provision of services directly to the carer, research suggests that an alternative way of helping carers is through targeting enhanced services towards the cared-for person. This paper reports a randomised controlled trial of the effects on carer distress of an additional specialist clinical assessment for vulnerable older peop…
Has social care performance in England improved? An analysis of performance ratings across social services organisations
The PSP Discussion Paper Series aims to disseminate innovative and, as yet, unpublished writing in order to generate public service centred discussion. This paper is a work in progress and we hope that its presentation here will be beneficial for the author in improving this piece on its way to publication. The opinions expressed are those of the author, not the PSP, nor the ESRC. This piece may not be reproduced without the expressed consent of …
Comparing How to Compare
Comparative performance evaluation has taken different forms depending upon the purposes of performance monitoring and the types of measures available. This paper investigates the different performance measurement systems in place in the social care setting, in particular for older people receiving community care services. In England, earlier systems to assist performance management within organizations have been eclipsed by national systems of r…
Comprehensive assessment of older people with complex care needs
The quality of assessment of older people with health and social care needs has for some time been a concern of policy makers, practitioners, older people and carers in the United Kingdom and internationally. This article seeks to address a key aspect of these concerns, namely whether sufficient expertise is deployed when, as a basis for a care plan and service allocation, an older person's eligibility for local authority adult social-care servic…
Performance Measurement in Adult Social Care
Approaches arising from the publication of performance data for adult social care in the UK nationally have led to unintended and often perverse consequences. A case is made in this paper for examining locally-based models, which offer substantial benefits to both managers and practitioners, and by extension, service users. Whilst there is no shortage of statements outlining the intentions behind monitoring performance in this setting, actual evi…
Targeting, Care Management and Preventative Services for Older People
As social services councils face a more constrained economic environment and as eligibility criteria tighten, the issue of targeting becomes increasingly relevant. This paper presents findings from a pilot project in one local authority that aimed to target access to assessment for older people with low-level needs who would normally have fallen under eligibility thresholds. Self-assessment was used as a tool whereby these older people could iden…
The Pursuit of Integration in the Assessment of Older People with Health and Social Care Needs
The provision of timely and effective services for older people with health and social care needs is dependent on the collection of accurate assessment information being shared with relevant agencies and accepted by them. This requires an integrated assessment approach capable of spanning the longstanding institutional separation between health and social care agencies present in England. This article considers the extent to which this has been a…
Exploring the Contribution of Self-Assessment to Preventative Services in Social Care
Prevention, comprising services that seek to delay deterioration of existing conditions and circumstances or prevent their occurrence by early access to support, is recognised as having an important role in adult social care. The gateway to social care services has traditionally been via needs-led assessments undertaken with professionals. In England, self-assessment, promoted as a means of accessing services more independently, has come to the f…
Person‐centredness in the community care of older people
‘Person‐centredness’ is a ubiquitous term, employed in modern care services to signify policies and practices that attend to the uniqueness of each individual user. Despite being highly regarded in older adult community care services, there is much ambiguity over its precise meaning. Existing reviews of person‐centredness and its attributes have tended to focus on the medico‐nursing literature, neglecting other interpretations, such as those rele…
Engaging Stakeholders in Realist Programme Theory Building
Dementia - Personalised Care Team' (D-PACT) is a five-year NIHR funded programme, using realist methods to develop and evaluate a complex, person-centred intervention for people with dementia and their carers. During the early project stages, we engaged with multiple stakeholders, including people with dementia and their carers, to develop an initial programme theory (IPT) - into an elaborated programme theory (EPT), by helping to uncover interve…
High-resolution geophysical monitoring of moisture accumulation preceding slope movement—a path to improved early warning
Slope failures are an ongoing global threat leading to significant numbers of fatalities and infrastructure damage. Landslide impact on communities can be reduced using efficient early warning systems to plan mitigation measures and protect elements at risk. This manuscript presents an innovative geophysical approach to monitoring landslide dynamics, which combines electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and low-frequency distributed acoustic sen…
A Novel Sizing Method for Analysing Amphibians from Archaeological Sites
Amphibians from archaeological sites are used to assess palaeoenvironments but rarely investigated to answer archaeological questions other than consumption. They can, however, yield important information about site occupation, land use, and the environment. We developed a sizing method to understand how and why amphibians were deposited in pit F76 under the Medieval Manor of Lower Putton Lane, England, which allowed us to answer broader question…
Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Social care (6 works) · Public relations (5 works)