Become an associate of CASCADE
Associate member ship of CASCADE is free. Associates’ names or that of your organisation will be
displayed on the CASCADE web-site along with information you provide about you or your
organisation.
Membership of the CASCADE policy and practice board will be drawn from the associate
membership and you may also be invited to join advisory groups for individual research projects.
Associate membership is open to individual children’s social care researchers who are not part of
Cardiff University (Cardiff University staff and research students have other ways of being involved in
CASCADE). It is also available to organisations that have an interest in children’s social care research.
This is likely to include local authorities, third sector organisations, independent providers, interest
groups and networks.
To become an associate please fill in the brief form below and email the form to cascade@cf.ac.uk .
CASCADE will accept as associate members any individual or organisation whose aims and work fit
with CASCADE’s mission.
CASCADE is concerned with all aspects of community-based responses to social need in
children and families, including family support services, children in need services, child
protection, looked after children and adoption.
It aims first and foremost to improve the well-being and safety of children and their
families by:
-Generating primary research evidence of an internationally recognised high quality.
-Making the results of this research, and research produced elsewhere, available in an
accessible form for children and families who receive social care services, professionals
and policy-makers.
-Developing social care research capacity in Wales by providing opportunities for
researchers from undergraduate through to senior career stages.
-Engaging a range of collaborators in research, including children and young people,
parents and carers, practitioners, policy-makers and social care providers from the public,
private and third sectors.
Application to become an
associate member of CASCADE
1. Your name
2. Your organisation
3. Are you applying to be an
individual associate or on behalf of
your organisation?
4. Your contact details (email,
telephone, postal address, plus
web-site and twitter address if
used.)
Please state clearly if any contact
information should not be
included on the public CASCADE
web-site.
5. If you are a researcher please
describe your children’s social care
research project(s) – 200 words
max. Please add a link to your webpage if available. NB: This
information will be included on
the CASCADE web-site.
6. If you are an organisation please
describe your organisation’s aims
and activities – 200 words max.
Please add a link to your web-page
if available. NB: This information
will be included on the CASCADE
web-site.
Please email this completed form to cascade@cf.ac.uk