Description:
Future-proofing Australia’s care economy: a relational mobilities approach
This project investigates the experiences of Australia’s migrant and mobile health workforce in the context of severe worker shortages worldwide. It explores 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.
Funder:
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA 2024)
Project Start: 2024
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Research collaborators:
Dr Sasha Block, Siwen Liu (PhD candidate)
Description:
Working for Women
The Working for Women Research Partnership brings together a national team of interdisciplinary researchers with deep expertise in the gendered dynamics of working life, in collaboration with the Australian Government Office for Women. The Partnership will run for five years from 2025 – 2030, and aims to build the robust evidence base needed to support implementation of Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality (the Strategy).
Funder:
Australian Government Office for Women
Project Duration:
5 years (2025-2030)
Project website:
Working for Women Research Partnership
Research collaborators:
The consortium is led by the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion @ Work at the University of Sydney
Description:
The Social Life of Death
This project takes a person-, family- and community-centred approach to understanding how death, dying and bereavement are lived and experienced in Australia today.
Using interviews, diaries and photographs, this study takes an in-depth look at what matters to people at the end of life and how people give and receive care.
Funder:
Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP230100372)
Project Start:
2023
Project website:
Research collaborators:
Professor Alex Broom, Associate Professor Katherine Kenny, Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers, Dr Henrietta Byrne
Leah Williams Veazey 