Conference Poster Submissions & Videos

‘Care’ on the monsoon calendar: Understanding ‘care’ as ‘adjustments’ during annual flooding by Ranjita Dilraj

Repeated floods are a problem faced by riverine communities. These floods shape and reshape the care needed and expected by the communities. This study examines how the scale of disasters and the repetitive nature of monsoon flooding affect the disaster response of communities and affect the ways in which care intersects with both existing vulnerabilities and resilience.

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Women’s Invisibilised Childcare Work in India 2019 by Wendy Olsen, Jihye Kim, Sonny McCann.

India has a strongly gendered pattern of task allocation. The gendered division of labour in turn affects how childcare is carried out, causing a ‘double burden’ on many women. We aimed to find out which groups do more childcare, measured in terms of time spent.

Hybrid Work, Hybrid Care, Gender and Worker Norms after COVID

Flexible and remote work is often touted as the solution to the surmounting pressures placed on working parents who juggle full-time employment with childcare. This research investigates the impact of the rapid adoption of remote and hybrid working arrangements post-pandemic on the gendered negotiation of care responsibilities for parents working in hybrid roles in the UK tech sector.

'Labours of love in Trinidad and Tobago: returnee women's care-motivated migration' by Shelene Gomes

Why do ‘professional’ women voluntarily return home to Trinidad and Tobago to perform the proximate care for ageing parents and relatives? This empirical case study centres the ongoing experiences of ten highly skilled women return migrants to Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean.