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Background
Katherine joined CRSP as a Research Associate in October 2001. She has experience of predominantly qualitative research including longitudinal studies and policy evaluations. Katherine has a range of research interests, her most recent work being around older people and welfare policy, with a particular interest in the client or claimant perspective.
Current Projects
Experiences of using the Pension, Disability and Carers Service (PDCS)
As part of promoting greater independence and well-being in later life, the government wants to make sure that everyone who is entitled to certain benefits actually receives them, and that they are delivered in the most effective way. At present, not all of those who are entitled to benefits for older people are claiming them and little is known about how people find out information about their entitlements. This research is looking at what kind of events in people’s lives may prompt contact with the Pensions, Disability and Carers Service (PDCS), and what people’s experience of service delivery has been. The PDCS hopes this research will help them to make the process easier and more effective for its customers in the future.
Evaluation of the Older Workers Face-to-Face Guidance Pilot
The Government’s Green Paper: A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering people to work includes a commitment to increasing employment among people aged 50 and over. As part of the process, the DWP is funding a pilot study whereby independent advisors offer guidance to people of older working age about a range of issues related to work and retirement. CRSP has been contracted to evaluate this pilot. The study aims to establish what information older working people need, and how they an access it, in order to make an informed decision about work and retirement in later life. The evaluation started in December 2007 and has a completion date of March 2010.
Sponsor: Department for Work and Pensions
Recent Projects
Planning and Deploying Resources in Later Life: aspirations, attitudes and behaviour - a qualitative study
Katherine is leading this project which explored how older people plan, use and value the resources available to them during and for later life. Resources are widely defined to include health, social networks, housing, transport as well as financial resources. The central aim of this project was to examine how resources and needs change over time using a longitudinal approach through a series of qualitative in-depth interviews. This project was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of the 'Resources in Later Life' Programme.
Publications
Hill, K. and Sutton, L. (2010) Housing Transitions: Older people's changing housing needs. Loughborough: Centre for Research in Social Policy.
Hill, K. and Sutton, L. (2010) Managing Finances in Later Life. Loughborough: Centre for Research in Social Policy.
Sutton, L. and Hill, K. (2010) Transport and Getting Around in Later Life. Loughborough: Centre for Research in Social Policy.
Hill, K., Sutton, L., and Cox, L. (2009), Managing Resources in Later Life, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Hill, K., Kellard, K., Middleton, S., Cox, L. and Pound, E. (2007), Understanding Resources in Later Life: views and experiences of older people, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Local Housing Allowance
CRSP was part of a consortium evaluating the introduction of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA), a new system of paying Housing Benefit to tenants in the private rented sector - part of the Government’s wider strategy for Housing Benefit reform. Katherine was involved in two waves of qualitative interviews which explored claimants’ experiences and views.
Further information about the policy, the evaluation and published reports are available on the DWP LHA website. This project is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Related Publications
Hill, K., Harvey, J., Phung, V-H., Sandu, A. and Roberts, S. (2007), Local Housing Allowance Final Evaluation: the qualitative evidence of claimants' experience in the nine Pathfinder areas. Local Housing Allowance Evaluation Report 13, Department for Work and Pensions, Corporate Document Services, Leeds.
Roberts, S., Beckhelling, J., Hill, K., Phung, V-H. and Stafford, B. (CRSP), Stratford, N. and Anderson, T. (NatCen), (2005), Receiving the Local Housing Allowance: claimants’ early experiences of the LHA in the nine pathfinder areas. Local Housing Allowance Evaluation Report 6, Department for Work and Pensions, Corporate Document Services, Leeds.
New Deal for Disabled People National Extension
CRSP led the consortium undertaking th is a large scale evaluation of the NDDP Job Broker service. Katherine worked on the longitudinal qualitative element which involved two waves of in-depth interviews and analysis to explore the views and experiences of NDDP clients, Job Brokers and Jobcentre Plus staff. The project was funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Related Publications
Lewis, J., Corden, A., Dillon, L., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P. (2005) New Deal for Disabled People: An In-Depth Study of Job Broker Service Delivery, DWP Research Report 246, Sheffield: DWP.
www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2005-2006/rrep246.pdf
Corden, A., Harries, T., Hill, K., Kellard, K., Lewis, J., Sainsbury, R. and Thornton, P. (2003) New Deal for Disabled People National Extension: Findings from the First Wave of Qualitative Research with Clients, Job Brokers and Jobcentre Plus Staff, DWP Research Report 169, Sheffield: DWP.
www.dwp.gov.uk/jad/2003/169rep.pdf
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