Laura Banks BA LLM
Research Fellow
contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644599
Email: L.C.Banks@brighton.ac.uk
Please note I am currently away on maternity leave.
Research interests
A wide range of research interests including:
- Social care
- Refugee issues
Recent projects
- An Exploration of Service User and Practitioner Experiences of Community Treatment Orders
- The IFORE project: www.ifore.eu
Teaching
- SS103 Research Methods
- SS238 Research Project
Profile
Laura joined HSPRC (now known as SSPARC) as a Research Assistant in 2002, shortly after completing her first degree in Social Policy at the University of Sussex. Since then, Laura has worked on a range of research projects, most of which have been around issues relating to older people and social care and have used both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Laura is also interested in human rights and asylum issues which she focussed on in her postgraduate studies (Master of Laws) at the University of Sussex (2004-6).
Journal articles, book chapters and reports
Banks, Laura and Barnes, Marian (2011) Evaluation of East Sussex Carers' Breaks Demonstrator Site University of Brighton, Brighton.
Haynes, P., Hill, Michael and Banks, Laura (2010) Older people's family contacts and long-term care expenditure in OECD countries: a comparative approach using qualitative comparative analysis Social Policy and Administration, 44 (1). pp. 67-84. ISSN 0144-5596
Fleischer, Stephanie, Banks, Laura and Haynes, P. (2010) The Winn report. The financial situation of students at the University of Brighton: the eighteenth report 2009-2010 University of Brighton, Brighton.
Ward, Lizzie and Banks, Laura (2009) Evaluation of health trainers in West Sussex University of Brighton, Brighton.
Banks, Laura, Haynes, P. and Hill, Michael (2009) Living in single person households and the risk of isolation International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 4 (1). pp. 55-86. ISSN 1652-8670
Banks, Laura, Haynes, P. and Hill, Michael (2008) A comparative analysis of informal networks among older people in Eastern and Western European states In: Hoff, A. and Perek-Bialas, J., eds. The Ageing Societies of Central and Eastern Europe: Some Problems? Some Solutions. Jagiellonian University Press, Cracow.
Smith, Naomi, Banks, Laura and O'Connell, Paul (2007) Age Concern older people and alcohol project: interim report scoping study HSPRC, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.
Haynes, P., Balloch, Susan, Banks, Laura and Hill, Michael (2006) Public policy and private provisions: changes in residential care from 1991 to 2001 Health and Social Care in the Community, 14 (6). pp. 499-507. ISSN 1365-2524
Pemberton, L., Marshall, A. and Banks, Laura (2006) Using digital media to access information and good practice for paid carers of older people Social Care Institute for Excellence.
Balloch, Susan, Banks, Laura and Hill, Michael (2004) Securing quality in the mixed economy of care : difficulties in regulating training Social Policy and Society, 3 (4). pp. 365-373. ISSN 1474-7464
Balloch, Susan, Banks, Laura, Hill, Michael, Smith, Naomi and Szanto, Clare (2004) East Sussex, Brighton and Hove workforce mapping study University of Brighton, Health and Social Policy Research Centre, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)
Szanto, Clare, Balloch, Susan and Banks, Laura (2003) The childcare workforce in Brighton and Hove [Report (for external body)]
Conference papers
Banks, L. (2012) Reducing household energy use: The challenge of the human factor, 1st International Colloquium on the Sociology of Energy. Université de Toulouse Il-Le Mirail. 25 October 2012.
Banks, L. and Stroud, J. (2012) Community treatment orders: exploring the ethics and experiences of compulsory mental health care in the community, Critical Care Conference: Advancing an Ethic of Care in Theory and Practice, University of Brighton, 14 September 2012.
Banks, L and Smith, N (2010) Whose responsibility? Looking at individual and collective based approaches to prevention work with older people. Social Policy Association Conference, Lincoln University, 6 July 2010
www.social-policy.org.uk/lincoln/Banks.pdf (221Kb)
Banks, L (2007) A comparative analysis of social networks among older people in Eastern and Western European states, 13th Polish Sociological Congress, Zielona Gora , Poland , 14 September 2007
Banks, L (2005) Residential Social Care: Gender and ethnicity, Taiwanese Social Policy Association, International Social Care and Social Workforce Conference at Chi Nan University, Taiwan, 3 November 2005
Banks, L (2005) Residential Social Care: Gender and ethnicity, Conference on Social and Health Care in Aging Society at Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan, 5 November 2005
Haynes, P, Banks, L , Balloch, S and Hill, M (2005) Changes in patterns of residential and nursing care 1991-2001: An introduction to the research and discussion of some of its implications for communities in the twenty-first century. Conference on Communities and Care: Research Policy and Practice, University of Brighton, 23 April 2005
