Jitka Vseteckova leads this subgroup that focuses on the below areas:

Improving carers’ health and wellbeing: physical activity for carers during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, online and face-to face interventions to improve carers health and wellbeing, mindfulness and other cognitive activities for carers, carers of people with learning disabilities, dementia carers

Knowledge exchange: KTP vouchers and other types of KE funding, co-designing & co-producing accessible learning material eg OpenLearn articles, OpenLearn Courses and other educational material for carers, co-production of resources with people with lived experience of caring, developing and sustaining networks, participatory research and public engagement

Current and former doctoral students

Ann Flynn (2018, EdD) Thesis: Preparation of students in education for social work practice in an inter-professional setting

Lorna Mackay (2021, PhD) Thesis: An investigation into the effect of integrating percussive therapy into warm ups for strength and conditioning programmes, to improve chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain in knees, lumbar spine and shoulders

Tamsin Smith (2017-2021, EdD) Thesis: An Exploration of the Experiences of Mentors Supporting Clinical Skills’ Development in Student Nurses in Very Remote Rural Scotland