Royal Holloway social work academics Karl Mason and Tony Evans have published findings on the complex and dynamic ways in which social workers engage in inter-disciplinary cooperation in situations of self-neglect. This study, which has been published in the British Journal of Social Work, shows how social workers shifted between four ways of describing their inter-professional work and roles in this complex area of practice: working as leaders, working in parallel, working in conflict and working by proxy. These approaches and roles were selectively adopted depending on a variety of situational factors. This dynamic approach to inter-disciplinary cooperation has implications for integrated working policies in adult social care, given the Care Act, 2014 and its 'duty to cooperate' for key agencies in the sector: social care, housing and health. The published research article can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcz031/5420315

Karl Mason's research profile can be found here: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/karl-mason(ef8daca3-3a44-4d3d-a771-5a07187be094).html

Tony Evans' research profile can be found here: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/tony-evans(f3185150-a906-45b2-a101-23b5fbaeee65).html