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Catherine is a Professor of Social Care Research and the Director of Social Care and Society at The University of Manchester. She is passionate about developing strong and sustainable careers, and is supervisor and mentor to a number of emerging research leaders and early career researchers.

 Her research interests have centred on the interface between health care and social care, family care, mental health social care, and self-harm and suicide.

Catherine is the social care research lead for several infrastructure initiatives, including the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Greater Manchester and the NIHR Patient Safety and Research Collaborative. She is the academic lead of the newly formed NIHR Specialist Centre FOR Social Care as part of the Lancaster University and Partners NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub.

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The aims and objectives of REDiC are important to the work of the NIHR Support Incubator for Mental Health Social Care. To have the opportunity to learn from each other and to undertake some joint work will be invaluable.