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ICOSS Board Room

Gender, Care and Social Reproduction: why gender matters for care policy

Prof. Ruth Pearson & Prof. Sue Himmelweit
Women’s Budget Group

This seminar has been postponed. New date coming soon.

Who Cares? Financialisation in social care

Harry Quilter-Pinner
IPPR

Online event

The role of ‘replacement care’ in supporting working carers

Dr Derek King & Nicola Brimblecombe
London School of Economics

Online event

The Financialisation of Care: Investment funds and the sustainability of UK care homes

Dr Amy Horton
University College London

Amy Horton joined UCL as a lecturer in economic geography at UCL in 2017, after completing a PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Her research examines the intersections of finance, care and labour. In particular, she investigates the financing of care homes and strategies for organising by care workers and wider movements, in both the UK and US. Previously, Amy worked as a policy researcher and campaigner in NGOs focusing on the international financial institutions, financial regulation and human rights.

Watch Amy’s presentation

Date: Monday 15th June

Time: 2.00- 3.30 pm

Venue:  Google hangout, link will be distributed to those who sign up. Places are limited so please register your interest here.

For more information, please contact Kelly Davidge (k.s.davidge@sheffield.ac.uk).

Carers and the failure of ‘identity’

Prof. Luke Clements
University of Leeds

Carers and the failure of ‘identity’

The seminar celebrates the 55th anniversary of the founding of the carers movement; the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the first ‘carers’ recognition’ statute and 10th anniversary of the landmark European Court of Justice ruling in Coleman v. Attridge Law.

It considers the effectiveness of ‘carer recognition’ legislation, enacted in many jurisdictions over the last four decades – and questions the potential of such laws to radically address the profound disadvantage that many carers experience.

In his seminar Luke Clements suggests that identify based approaches, aimed at protecting the rights of unpaid carer and of taking them to a ‘socially just’ destination have not delivered and are unlikely to.

Please find more information about the speaker below, and share with any colleagues and PhD students who might be interested.

Luke Clements is the Cerebra Professor of Law & Social Justice at the School of Law, Leeds University.

Luke was involved in the drafting of the Westminster Bill’s that became the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 and the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004, as well as acting as the expert adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee scrutinising the Care & Support Bill 2013.

He has written widely including a comparative analysis of global carer rights laws – L Clements ‘Does your carer take sugar?’ in the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice (2013) Volume 19 pp 397 -434.