Care Work & Relationships

The Sustainable Care programme’s work on Care Work and Relationships is co-directed by Professor Sue Yeandle and Professor Jill Manthorpe. It aims to theorise the connections between the division and organisation of caring labour and the quality of caring relationships; to identify strategies which can promote sustainable care with wellbeing in home care settings; to enhance understanding of the role of workplace support in supporting work-care reconciliation; to explore the role of technology in alleviating pressure in caring situations; and to study under-researched aspects of mobility and migration, including caring at a distance and ageing migrants in the UK.

Working in three teams, researchers in the programme’s Care Work and Relationships strand are studying:

• Comparative case studies of innovative and emerging home care delivery models;
• New or inadequately researched supports for people combining paid work and unpaid care;
• Emerging technologies, and working carers’ options and experiences, and the consequences of these for caring networks;
• Under-researched aspects of mobility and migration, including caring at a distance and the situation and circumstances of ageing migrants in the UK.