CARE MATTERS Live 2023: AI, Sensors & Robots: what is next for Social Care in the UK?

Our very first live episode! 

What are the potential benefits, risks and barriers to increasingly ‘digital social care’?

What are the realities of technologies and social care in the UK right now?

How can new and emerging technologies enhance care and people’s lives?

We are delighted to release the recording of our live podcast event, held at the University of Sheffield as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Sciences. The event is a collaboration between the Centre for Care and the University of Sheffield Digital Society Network, Digital Inclusion and Ethics Hub.

Hosted by Dr Kate Hamblin (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Care, IMPACT), this episode looks specifically at care and technology. Our guests discuss the kinds of devices used in care arrangements and relationships, but also the increasingly ‘online’ digital provision of care services. Our panellists also share their expertise on the reality of technology and care now and where they think it might go in the near future.

Kate was thrilled to be joined by;

• • Caroline Waugh, member of Think Local Act Personal’s National Co-production Advisory Group and co-creator of Cycling 4 All in Sheffield,
  • Madeleine Starr, Carers UK,
  • Laura Sbaffi, Information School, The University of Sheffield, and,
  • Katie Heard, Good Things Foundation

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Learn more about our research on the Centre for Care website here: https://centreforcare.ac.uk/

This episode of the CARE MATTERS Podcast was produced by Kitty Turner and the event was coordinated by Rachael Black, Kate Hamblin and Dan Williamson at the Centre for Care.

---Intro/outro music: Music: https://www.purple-planet.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0