Kritika Samsi

Kritika Samsi is a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London's NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, focusing on dementia care, social care workforce dynamics, and qualitative research methods. She holds affiliations with the NIHR School for Social Care Research and leads the Social Care Theme in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London. Her work spans over a decade, addressing topics like optimal timing of care home transitions, dementia service needs, and workforce policy.

Education: PhD in Dementia Studies (2011, King's College London), with a thesis on quality of life in dementia. Supervises MSc students and co-leads a qualitative research methods module at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Research interests include: Dementia care pathways, workforce race equality standards, and pandemic impacts on care workers. She co-chairs the Margaret Butterworth Care Home Forum, fostering stakeholder collaboration in dementia research.

Key contributions include evaluations of international nurse recruitment, social care workforce retention strategies, and the role of clinical pharmacists in geriatric care. Her recent work emphasizes preventive services in day centres and co-production methods in developing dementia care roles.

Grants and Projects: Co-Investigator on the £5M 'Care Work' social care workforce partnership. Led studies on nursing associates, social care race equality standards, and dementia care transitions. Published widely in journals like International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.

Labs/Teams: Active in multidisciplinary teams across NIHR units, focusing on workforce policy, dementia care innovation, and pandemic response strategies.