Dr Maria Allen

Senior Research Fellow, Public Health

+44 (0) 1792 295886

m.cheshire-allen@swansea.ac.uk

Sim Bay 018 - 018
Ground Floor
Haldane Building
Singleton Campus

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About

Maria Cheshire-Allen is a researcher and PhD candidate at the Centre for Innovative Ageing at Swansea University, UK. She holds a BSc in Philosophy and Sociology and MSc in Equality. She has worked on several large research projects including the ESRC 'Sustainable Care' programme (2017-2021). Her research interests lie in ageing, care, gender and social policy. Her research is informed by a previous career working in various policy and campaigning roles for NGOs in Wales, as well as working as a carer for older people.

Areas Of Expertise

Older people
Family care
Ageing and gender
Ethics of care
Critical social policy
Qualitative research methods
Social care and older people

Career Highlights

Research

My PhD research is focused on wellbeing and older family carers. Informed by an ethics of care perspective the study aims to develop a policy orientated empirically grounded conceptualisation of wellbeing in the context of family carer.

This qualitative study is funded by the Wales School of Social Care research and is due to complete in December 2021.

Award Highlights Collaborations

Publications

Research Highlights

Masterson-Algar, P., Allen, M., Hyde, M., Keating, N., & Windle, G. (2022). Exploring the impact of Covid-19 on the care and quality of life of people with dementia and their carers: A scoping review. Dementia, 21(2), 648-676.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211053971, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58555
Allen, M. & Calder, G. (2021). 'We have been left to go it alone': the well-being of family carers of older people during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Wales'. In Pomati, M., Jolly, A. and Rees, J. (Ed.), Social Policy Review (pp. 115-134). Policy Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57443
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-policy-review-33
Allen, M. & Calder, G. (2022). ‘No one was clapping for us’: care, social justice and family carer wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales. International Journal of Care and Caring, 6(1), 49-66.
https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221x16316408646247, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58148
Keating, N. & Allen, M. (2021). Policy to Reduce Late-Life Social Exclusion – From Aspirations to Action. In Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Anna Wanka, Sofie Van Regenmortel (Ed.), Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives (pp. 353-357). Springer
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54228
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8
Allen, M. (2022). Reconsidering policy, complexity, governance and the state. Kate Crowley, Jenny Stewart, Adrian Kay, and Brian W. Head Bristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781447333135; £26.99 (EPub). Social Policy & Administration, 56(3), 540-541.
https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12749, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58166

All Research

Journal Articles

Allen, M. (2022). Reconsidering policy, complexity, governance and the state. Kate Crowley, Jenny Stewart, Adrian Kay, and Brian W. Head Bristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781447333135; £26.99 (EPub). Social Policy & Administration, 56(3), 540-541.
https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12749, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58166
Allen, M. & Calder, G. (2022). ‘No one was clapping for us’: care, social justice and family carer wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales. International Journal of Care and Caring, 6(1), 49-66.
https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221x16316408646247, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58148
Masterson-Algar, P., Allen, M., Hyde, M., Keating, N., & Windle, G. (2022). Exploring the impact of Covid-19 on the care and quality of life of people with dementia and their carers: A scoping review. Dementia, 21(2), 648-676.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211053971, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58555

Book Chapters

Allen, M. & Calder, G. (2021). 'We have been left to go it alone': the well-being of family carers of older people during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Wales'. In Pomati, M., Jolly, A. and Rees, J. (Ed.), Social Policy Review (pp. 115-134). Policy Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57443
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-policy-review-33
Keating, N. & Allen, M. (2021). Policy to Reduce Late-Life Social Exclusion – From Aspirations to Action. In Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Anna Wanka, Sofie Van Regenmortel (Ed.), Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives (pp. 353-357). Springer
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54228
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8

Other Research Outputs

Allen, M. (2022). An Exploration of the Concept of Well-being In Relation to the Care of Older People
https://doi.org/10.23889/SUthesis.60835, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60835

Key Grants and Projects

Sustainable Care: Connecting people and systems 2017 - 2021

Named researcher

Other Roles

Volunteer, Swansea Carers Centre

2020 - Present
BSG ERA Secretary, British Society of Gerontology

2018 - 2018

Invited Presentations, Lectures and Conferences

Wellbeing in the context of family care - an ethics of care policy analysis

2020

Social Policy Association ECR Conference.
Family carers and wellbeing – results from ‘trace’ policy analysis

2019

ROSEnet Conference, Barcelona
Wellbeing of family carers and welfare justice

2019

British Society of Gerontology Conference, Liverpool
Wellbeing in the context of family carers – an ethics of care perspective

2019

University Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Poster presentation ‘A feminist gerontological perspective on wellbeing in the context of family Carers’

2019

International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress - Gothenburg, Sweden
Sustainable care & wellbeing–the case for Wales / Unequal ageing–inequalities in paid work & retirement in older age in Wales

2018

Two symposium presentations, British Society of Gerontology conference, Manchester
‘Sustainable social care for carers of older people’

2018

Presentation on PhD thesis at British Society of Gerontology Early Career Research Association, Manchester

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Volunteer, Swansea Carers Centre

BSG ERA Secretary, British Society of Gerontology

Wellbeing in the context of family care - an ethics of care policy analysis

Family carers and wellbeing – results from ‘trace’ policy analysis

Wellbeing of family carers and welfare justice

Wellbeing in the context of family carers – an ethics of care perspective

Poster presentation ‘A feminist gerontological perspective on wellbeing in the context of family Carers’

Sustainable care & wellbeing–the case for Wales / Unequal ageing–inequalities in paid work & retirement in older age in Wales

‘Sustainable social care for carers of older people’