How We're Guided

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CARE-HSC is guided by people with lived experience, professional expertise, and a shared commitment to race equity in health and social care. Our work is shaped through collaborative leadership and meaningful involvement, ensuring that decisions are informed by those most affected by racial inequities, as well as those working within the system. Through our Steering Commitee and Stakeholder Opinion Group, we centre accountability, co-production, and real-world insight at every stage of the project, from research design to delivery and impact.

Steering Committee

The CARE-HSC Steering Committee provides strategic oversight and guidance for the project, ensuring that all activities remain aligned with its goals of promoting race equity, inclusion, and impact across health and social care. The Committee brings together individuals with lived and professional expertise from academia, health and social care, policy, community, charity, and creative sectors. Members provide independent advice, constructive challenge, and strategic guidance to the Core Management Group, helping to shape the project’s direction, priorities, and real-world influence.

Steering Committee members attend regular meetings, review progress against project milestones, and contribute their expertise to strengthen research, engagement, and dissemination. Members may also participate in events, workshops, and other opportunities to support CARE-HSC’s vision. Through this work, the Committee ensures that CARE-HSC remains inclusive, evidence-based, and community-driven, helping to translate research into meaningful change.

Comittee Members include:

  • Individuals with lived or professional expertise in race equity, health, social care, policy, community, charity, or creative sectors

  • Members who can contribute constructively to discussions and decision-making

  • Commitment to advancing inclusive, evidence-based change and co-production principles

  • Appointments are typically for two years, with the possibility of renewal

How Members Contribute:

  • Provide strategic oversight and guidance to CARE-HSC’s Core Management Group

  • Offer independent advice and constructive challenge on project direction, priorities, and impact

  • Review progress against milestones and helps identify opportunities for collaboration, policy influence, and sustainability

  • Support research, engagement, and dissemination activities with expert insight

Member Impact and Support:

  • Make a difference: Shape a major international initiative advancing anti-racism and equity

  • Be heard: Influence research design, delivery, and translation into real-world change

  • Build connections: Join a network of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community leaders

  • Flexible involvement: Engage through meetings, discussions, events, or written feedback

  • Receive recognition and support: Acknowledgement in publications, reimbursement for time, and administrative support for participation

Discover the leaders driving change in health and social care. Click below to learn more about our Steering Group members and their work.

Steering Committee Profiles

Collaborative Advisory Board

The Collaborative Advisory Board (CAB) brings together workforce members and unpaid (informal) carers with lived experience and expertise to provide strategic advice and targeted input to the CARE-HSC project.

The CAB will operate through a flexible, task-and-finish model, enabling members to contribute to specific areas of work aligned with their interests, expertise, and availability. This means members will be invited to contribute to specific pieces of work with a clear purpose and timeframe, rather than being expected to be involved in all activities.

Who can join:

We welcome applications from:

  • Health and social care staff
  • Informal carers (Unpaid)
  • Representation of carer networks that live and work in the UK and beyond 
  • Representatives of organisations within the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
  • People with lived experience of racial inequities in health and social care
  • Anyone passionate about anti-racism, inclusion, and collaborative change

How Members Contribute:

CAB members are expected to:

  • Attend relevant CARE-HSC meetings where their input and expertise are most relevant
  • Contribute to task-and-finish groups, workshops, and other targeted activities as appropriate
  • Provide insights and guidance based on lived experience and professional expertise
  • Advise on inclusive recruitment strategies and help identify underrepresented voices
  • Engage flexibly, recognising that involvement will vary over time depending on project needs and individual capacity

Support & Benefits:

Members will:

  • Make a difference
  • Be heard
  • Build skills
  • Influence change
  • Choose your involvement
  • Network and connect
  • Gain recognition and development opportunities
  • Receive support and accessibilities
  • Be reimbursed for your time

If you have any questions about the Steering Commitee or the Collaborative Advisory Board, please get in touch with us at care_hsc@kcl.ac.uk. 

Meet the Team

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