Some reflections on social care research: The aspirations

In the last of our three part series on the joys, tribulations and aspirations of social care research Martin Knapp and Ann Richardson look toward the future of social care research. This involves a greater commitment by researchers in the dissemination and knowledge transfer strategy from the beginning of a research project to the role of a social media in ensuring that research is reaching the wider audiences it is relevant to, including people who use services and carers who should ultimately be made a part of the research project from the beginning.