Becky Driscoll

Becky joined the Centre for Care and CIRCLE in June 2022 as a Research Associate. Currently, she is working with Louise Overton, Maxine Watkins and Kate Hamblin on a research project investigating complexity and inflexibility in the welfare benefits system for unpaid carers. She is also involved in the children, young people and families theme, with projects on kinship carers and children’s residential care.

Previously, she was very involved with our impact work, ensuring that our evidence and expertise makes a difference to care policy, including responding to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations across the four nations of the UK.  

Prior to joining the Centre, Becky worked for a variety of local government, NHS and voluntary sector organisations. Most recently, this included commissioning of inpatient CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in South Yorkshire, as well as working on a Macmillan-funded transformation programme in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on personalised, joined-up care for people with cancer. 

She has an MSc in African Studies and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. She also studied a postgraduate module on ‘Engaging Publics in Health Research’ at King’s College London. 

Publications

Valuing Kinship Care in England - Research from the Centre for Care, together with the charity Kinship, estimates kinship carers contribute £4.3 billion a year to society

Becky has also worked on many evidence submissions to committees and inquiries on behalf of the Centre for Care. More details on these can be found on the links below:

https://centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2023/04/committees-and-inquiries-jan-mar-23/
https://centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2023/12/committees-and-inquiries-april-november-2023/
https://centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2025/06/contributions-to-committees-and-inquiries/