Professor
Mark Llewellyn is Director of the Welsh Institute for Heath and Social Care, and
Professor of Health and Care Policy at the University of South Wales. Since
2008 at WIHSC, he has undertaken more than 100 specialist research studies and
evaluative reviews and gained considerable experience of managing and
delivering complex and sensitive studies specifically in health and social
care, and across the public sector in the UK. He has developed an expertise in
applied research and evaluation methodologies and his work is focused on
providing a robust and independent evidence-base in all of WIHSC’s work.
Mark
graduated from University of Wales Swansea with both BA and PhD, and was a
Lecturer there for two years. He worked for four years as Head of Qualitative
Research at a social research company, before joining WIHSC. Mark’s work
has centred on the application and implementation of health and social care
policy in practice, and the evidence of its effectiveness. This has involved the
evaluation of interventions and innovative working practices in health and care
and understanding the impact of the voice and control of service users across
health and social care. He is also interested in the role and influence of the
third sector in care, well-being and health, and the influence that
independent, academic evidence has on policy at a national level. He has
authored more than 100 reports which have directly impacted upon policy
decisions within the public sector, and has published numerous academic papers
in journals relevant to the fields of social care, planning and health.
Research interests
Mark has
developed an expertise in applied research and evaluation methodologies and his
work is focused on providing an evidence-base upon which decisions around
policy and practice across health, social care and the third sector can be
taken. The focus for Mark over the last decade and more working in this field
is the connection between evidence and policy, and the positive contribution
that independent research and evaluation data can make. There are a number of
key themes which connect the different projects and programmes Mark has worked
on:
- Applying
evidence to the practice of national policy making across health and
social care;
- Rethinking
the relationship between the citizen and the state;
- Leadership
and influence through the production of accessible, evidential research
reports;
- Role
of the third sector in delivering and influencing health and social care;
- Evaluating
outcomes for service users, patients and the public; and
- Service
evaluation, results based accountability and mixed methodologies
Expertise
Mark has
been appointed to a number of roles, boards and groups to support the work of
the sector, using his skills, knowledge and expertise:
- Working
Group Member, Independent Living Social Care, Disability Rights Taskforce,
Welsh Government – October 2022 onwards
- Ministerial
Appointment as Expert Group Member and Sub-Group Chair (Citizen Voice),
National Care Service for Wales, Welsh Government – February to October
2022
- Board
Member, Third Sector Research Partnership – July 2022 onwards
- Expert
Reference Group Member, Social Care Research, Health and Care Research
Wales – June 2022 onwards
- Commissioning
Panel Member, ESRC Policy Fellowships – August 2021 onwards
- Member,
IMPACT Assembly Wales – July 2021 onwards
- Advisory
Group Member, ExChange Wales Adult Social Care Advisory Group, Cardiff
University – May 2021 onwards
- Sounding
Board Member, Engage Britain on the future of health and social care – January
2021 onwards
- Appointed
Member, Welsh Government COVID-19 Stabilisation and Reconstruction Board:
Social Care and Integration – July to November 2020
- Member,
Carers Trust Wales Research, Policy and Engagement Advisory Group –
November 2019
- Steering
Group Member, Measuring the Mountain, Welsh Government – June 2019 to
January 2021
- Multidisciplinary
Stakeholder Lead and Executive Board member, PRIME Centre Wales – November
2018
- Editorial
Board Member, EnvisAGE, the journal of Age Cymru – September 2018 onwards
- Advisor,
Central Research Committee, Disability Research on Independent Living and
Learning (DRILL) – October 2017-April 2020
- Wales
Representative, Expert Reference Group on Options for Funding the NHS and
Social Care, for Rand Europe – July 2017-April 2018
- Independent
Member, Clinical Ethics Committee, Cwm Taf University Health Board –
January 2017 onwards
- Trustee
and Board Member, Wales Council for Voluntary Action – November 2015
onwards (Vice Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, January 2021 onwards)
- Member,
Welsh Advisory Group, Disability Research on Independent Living and
Learning (DRILL) – September 2015-April 2020
- Appointed
Member, All Wales Academic Social Care Collaborative, Welsh Government
(Social Services Directorate) – June 2013-August 2015
