Care work and 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

• identify strategies which can promote sustainable care with wellbeing in home care settings

• enhance understanding of the role of workplace support in supporting work-care reconciliation

• explore the role of technology in alleviating pressure in caring situations

• 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.