Ben Williams Health and Social Care Professional with co-design experience

Video 6/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Ben is an experienced project lead managing complex, cross-partnership programmes and projects in the health and social care industry. He has expertise in dementia, older people’s housing, mental capacity, safeguarding and care standards. He does public speaking arrangements on dementia.

Ben joined Care City in 2019 and has worked on managing health innovation integration for social care, the NHS, Local Authorities and Integrated Care Boards. He was part of the committee that wrote the National NICE dementia guidance NG97 and remains an Expert Advisor for NICE.

He has many years of experience as a social care practice excellence advisor, safeguarding lead and policy officer for a large housing and care provider. During this time he set up the ‘Dementia Friendly London Housing Group’ which is now run from the Mayor of London’s office.

Funding information:

The TIDAL Network+ is a collaboration between UCL, Strathclyde, Salford and Loughborough Universities, led by Prof Cathy Holloway, Academic Director of Global Disability Innovation Hub and Professor at UCL. The research team includes Prof Laurence Kenney (Salford University), Prof Richard Bibb (Nottingham Trent University), Prof Mikko Koria (Loughborough University) and Dr Arjan Buis (Strathclyde University). We are funded from 1st September 2021 to 31st December 2024 by the EPSRC as a Healthcare Technologies New Challenges Network Plus (EP/W000717/1).

TIDAL stands for, ‘Transformative Innovation in the Delivery of Assisted Living Products and Services’. Our purpose is to improve the quality of Assistive Technologies (AT) and hence the lives of the people who use them, their families and carers.