Network member

Leigh Rooney,

University of York

Leigh Rooney is a UK-based qualitative researcher whose work explores the assembling of key concepts within adult social care, including social care innovations, research capacity, and ‘need’ in assessment processes.

Currently based in the Older Adults Social Care Research Group at the University of York, Leigh works on the Curiosity Partnership, a research capacity-building initiative in adult social care. His previous projects have included examining innovations in homecare, with a focus on how technologies emerge, stabilise, and circulate within policy and practice.

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Publications

Rooney, L., Rapley, T., & Whitehead, P. J. (2023). Normative puzzles for local government: Managing the introduction of single‐handed care in England. Sociology of Health & Illness, 45(4), 718-33. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13618

McAnuff, J., Rapley, T., Rooney, L., & Whitehead, P. (2024). Navigating uncharted territory with a borrowed map: lessons from setting up the BATH-OUT-2 randomised controlled trial in adult social care and housing services in English local authorities. Trials, 25(1), 1-9.

Whitehead, P.J., Rooney, L., Adams‐Thomas, J., Bailey, C., Greenup, M., Southall, C., Raffle, A., Rapley, T., & Whittington, S. (2022). ‘Single‐handed care’ initiatives and reviews of double‐handed homecare packages: A survey of practices in English local authorities with adult social care responsibilities. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e5560-e5569. DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13980