About
Maria is a Senior Research Fellow, her research is on family carers and social care markets with a particular focus on the role of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in the social care sector. She currently holds a Health Care Research Wales Social Care Research Fellowship award that explores the contribution and role of social enterprise organisations in supporting family carers. She has established and is currently Chair of the Care Research Interest Group in Wales (CRIG) and is a member of the Welsh Government’s Cross-Party Group on Ageing and Older People, the British Society of Gerontology and the European Social Policy Network on Ageing.
Prior to her Fellowship award, Maria worked at the Centre for Ageing and Dementia and Swansea Centre for Health Economics where she was a Co-Investigator for the COVID-19 Impact on the Support and Management of the COVID Pandemic on Older People in Wales’ (COSMO) project where she led and conducted qualitative research with unpaid carers of people living with dementia.