Stacey Rand is a Research Officer at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. She is also a member of the Quality and Outcomes of person centred care (QORU) policy research unit, and is currently working on the ‘Identifying the Impact of Adult Social Care’ (IIASC) project. Before joining the PSSRU she held analyst and management positions in a contract research organization (pharmaceutical drug development). Stacey has a BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge.