En Route to Recovery: Diversity and vulnerability in care work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

En Route to Recovery: Diversity and vulnerability in care work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic


Funders involved: AKA; SSHRC; ESRC; NRF

This project will examine how diverse people in Finland, Canada, UK and South Africa, specifically, care workers in precarious positions (women, LGBTI2S people, and migrant status or minority ethnic people) who work/have worked in formal and informal care address challenges by collaboratively examining their ideas to ease risks and develop opportunities to deliver and receive care.

Lead Principal Investigator: Prof Marjut Jyrkinen (marjut.jyrkinen@helsinki.fi), Department of Cultures, Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

Principal Investigators:

Kathy Sanderson (kjsander@lakeheadu.ca), Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Canada

Prof Linda McKie (linda.mckie@kcl.ac.uk), Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, Kings College London UK

Prof Floretta Boonzaier (floretta.boonzaier@uct.ac.za), Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

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