All Outputs (7)

Research engagement and activity within social work and social care: a research culture building programme (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Campbell, P., Holmstrom, C., Nixon, K., Tajuria, G., Powell, E., Tavernor, J., Statham, D., Redmond, S., Bonner, P., Hornby, S., Spolander, G., & Lambley-Burke, R. (2025, May). Research engagement and activity within social work and social care: a research culture building programme. Poster presented at NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference 2025, York

Background

Practice-based research activity and engagement has demonstrated improvements to service delivery and service user outcomes (evidenced based and informed practice). The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) supports suc... Read More about Research engagement and activity within social work and social care: a research culture building programme.

Navigating the New Landscape: The Impact of Hybrid Working on Newly Qualified Social Workers (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Powell, E., Holmstrom, C., Campbell, P., & Tajuria, G. (2025, May). Navigating the New Landscape: The Impact of Hybrid Working on Newly Qualified Social Workers. Presented at NIHR School for Social Care Research Annual Conference 2025, York

Background

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Social Work is a profession was predominately office-based with colleagues most often co-located together. Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) joining a team therefore had direct access to more experie... Read More about Navigating the New Landscape: The Impact of Hybrid Working on Newly Qualified Social Workers.

Assessing Children and Young People (CYP) Under the Mental Health Act: A Service Evaluation (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Redmond, S., Holmstrom, C., & Campbell, P. (2025, May). Assessing Children and Young People (CYP) Under the Mental Health Act: A Service Evaluation. Poster presented at School for Social Care Research 2025, York

Background

An increasing number of children and young people (CYP) are being referred for assessments under the Mental Health Act, reportedly experiencing a crisis or acute episode requiring admission to hospital. In order to consider the impact o... Read More about Assessing Children and Young People (CYP) Under the Mental Health Act: A Service Evaluation.

Identifying carers in general practice (STATUS QUO): a multicentre, cross-sectional study in England (2024)
Journal Article
Lawton, S., Mallen, C., Hussain, Z., Bajpai, R., Muller, S., Holmstrom, C., Jinks, C., & Helliwell, T. (2024). Identifying carers in general practice (STATUS QUO): a multicentre, cross-sectional study in England. BMJ Open, 14(4), Article e083816. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083816

Objectives: To determine General Practice (GP) recording of carer status and the number of patients self-identifying as carers, while self-completing an automated check-in screen prior to a GP consultation.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional st... Read More about Identifying carers in general practice (STATUS QUO): a multicentre, cross-sectional study in England.

Well-Being: From Concept to Practice? (2021)
Journal Article
Holmstrom, C. (2021). Well-Being: From Concept to Practice?. Practice, 289 - 307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503153.2021.1898579

‘Well-being’ has become a high-profile and contested issue, for both policy and practice, since its introduction as an integral part of the Care Act (2014). A dynamic and fluid concept, the researchers were interested in how qualified social workers... Read More about Well-Being: From Concept to Practice?.

Transitions to adult social care (2020)
Book Chapter
Holmström, C. (2020). Transitions to adult social care. In The Care Act 2014: Wellbeing in Practice. SAGE Publications

Social Work's New ‘Non-traditional’ Students? Learning from the Experiences of Our Younger Students (2012)
Journal Article
Holmstrom, C. (2012). Social Work's New ‘Non-traditional’ Students? Learning from the Experiences of Our Younger Students. Social Work Education, 269 - 286. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.557430

This paper begins by locating the (controversial) removal of the ‘minimum age at qualification’ regulation in 2003 within the context of wider changes occurring within social work education and the social work profession. This is followed by a report... Read More about Social Work's New ‘Non-traditional’ Students? Learning from the Experiences of Our Younger Students.