In September 2023, the Australian Research Council announced more than $86 million in funding for early career researchers. One of those early career researchers was me. My project, Future-proofing Australia’s Care Economy: A Relational Mobilities Approach, was awarded over $400,000. The study will investigate the experiences of Australia’s migrant and mobile health workforce in the context of severe worker shortages worldwide. It will explore how healthcare workers’ family relationships and informal care responsibilities shape their migration decisions, experiences in the workplace and plans for the future. Expected outcomes include a comprehensive evidence-base about healthcare workers’ experiences of mobility, care, knowledge and skills to inform sustainable and person-centred policy solutions. The project should yield significant benefit by maximising Australia’s capacity to attract and retain a highly mobile workforce and their transnational knowledge and expertise to meet Australia’s growing care needs.
My book won an award!
At the 2022 TASA Conference, my book Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age won the 2022 Raewyn Connell Award for Best First Book in Australian Sociology.
Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age is available to buy
The book is now available in paperback, as well as in hardback and e-book format. It has been reviewed in Feminism & Psychology and the Journal of Sociology.
Leah Williams Veazey 