Professor Mark Llewellyn is Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care and Professor of Health and Care Policy at the University of South Wales. Over the past ten years, he has undertaken more than fifty 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 in April 2008. 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 50 reports which have directly impacted upon policy decisions within the public sector, and has published academic papers in journals relevant to the fields of social care, planning and health.
Mark is a Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Lead and Executive Board member of PRIME Centre Wales; an advisor on the Central Research Committee at Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL); Wales Representative on the Expert Reference Group on Options for Funding the NHS and Social Care, for Rand Europe (July 2017-April 2018); Independent Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee at Cwm Taf University Health Board; Trustee, Board Member and Company Director on the Wales Council for Voluntary Action; and an Associate Member of the Welsh Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD).