Siabhainn Russell

Siabhainn works on projects investigating carers’ experience of harm in the NHS and how to assess outcomes for integrated care systems across England as part of the Quality, Safety and Outcomes (QSO) Policy Research Unit.

She joined Oxford Population Health in 2023 to work on an NIHR ARC project looking at the needs of care homes in the Thames Valley accessing non-hospital services for their residents. 

Prior to this, Siabhainn worked on the Flourishing Lives project at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, exploring what people with learning disabilities think good social care support is and how support workers can help them to live full and flourishing lives. 

After Flourishing Lives, in 2022 her work took a slightly different direction, where Siabhainn investigated the use of robotics and assistive technologies in social care and the capabilities and infrastructure support that staff and service users need to use them successfully at University College London. 

After completing my PhD in 2018, focused on the development of policy around the transition to adult care for Cerebral Palsy patients in Scotland and the levels of that care across the local authority and NHS areas of Scotland, Siabhainn worked at the University of Stirling investigating people’s experiences on using self-directed support in Scotland to provide access support with social care needs in the home.