Frances Labrom
Research Fellow
Fran is a research fellow working on an ARC funded project to increase research capacity within adult social care.
An occupational therapist since 1999, she is passionate about improving services that support later life. With broad experience of working with older people and frailty across mental health and physical medicine, she has specialist expertise in reablement and intermediate care, and joint working across health and social care.
Since 2022, alongside clinical work, she has been working as a research assistant for Leeds Beckett University for the Centre for Dementia Research, working with people living with dementia and their carers using a range of research methods including qualitative, standardised assessments and surveys, to support various projects including VOICE 2, PPIE work, a young onset dementia survey, and participatory involvement in a theatre and dementia project.
In her new role she be supporting the establishment of co-working between the Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research and Adult and Community Services at City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, with an initial focus on home care service provision.