CIRCLE - Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities
Research facilities
CIRCLE's PhD and graduate students benefit from the School's policy of providing a supportive environment and excellent research facilities for its graduate student body, which includes both home and international students.
PhD students
Applications from prospective PhD students are welcome in the following fields of study: care, employment, equalities, and migration.
Duplicate of Associates, visitors and graduate students
CIRCLE welcomes Associate Members from both within and outside the university, and regularly welcomes visitors with shared research interests from overseas.
Visitors in 2011
- Raquel Martinez-Bujan, Visiting Research Fellow from the University of A Coruna, Spain, is visiting the CIRCLE Centre for three months from the 6th May. Raquel is a Senior Lecturer and is developing her research interests in the ESOMI - Research Team on Sociology of Migrations, coordinated by Professor Antonio Izquierdo. Her PhD research is entitled "Welfare and Care: A business of love" published by the CSIC and is a qualitative analysis on immigrant women who care for elderly people in Spain within domestic service.
- Professor Deb Brennan from the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, visited Fiona Williams between 28 April - 4th May and again 9th - 11th May. Together they edited the papers for the PASEC group's activity - the international research group funded by REASSESS, the Nordic Centre of Excellence: reasessing in the Nordic welfare model and also discussed the paper for the Journal of European Social Policy (JESP) Special Issue which she and Fiona are editing.
- Professor Rianne Mahon from the Institute of Public Policy at the University of Carleton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, visiting Fiona Williams from 18-22 April as part of JESP/PASEC work.
- Leah Persky, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Political Science, visited CIRCLE 2-4 February. Leah was researching cross-national comparative studies of family leave policies in the US, UK and Norway together with carers' issues.
Visitors in 2010
Fiona Williams and Kaori Katada
- Kaori Katada, Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Welfare, Saitama Prefectural University, Japan, visited Fiona on 4 September.
- Members of the International Working Carers, Caring Workers (WOCAWO) team visited CIRCLE and held their meeting here on July 7/8.
- Dr Janet Fast, Professor and Project Director of Hidden Costs/Invisible Contributions Research Programme, Alberta University, Edmonton, Canada visited CIRCLE during the week of 5th July. Dr Fast researches family and consumer policy issues and attended the 5th International Carers' Conference held at The Royal Armouries in Leeds from 8 - 11 July.
- Professor Pat Armstrong, PhD, Sociology and Women's Studies CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Health Services, York University, Toronto, Cananda and Professor Hugh Armstrong, School of Social Work, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada visited CIRCLE for three weeks from 23 June 2010. On 29 June they presented a seminar to the School titled "Re-Imagining Long-Term Care" and attended the 5th International Carers' Conference held at The Royal Armouries in Leeds from 8 - 11 July.
Visitors in 2009
- Dr Susan Braedley, MSW, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow, CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Health Services Research, York Institute for Health Research, Toronto, Canada. Dr Braedley visited CIRCLE for two weeks from 23 November 2009. She was working on issues related to employment, care, gender and social policy and presented a seminar on 3 December "Masculinized Care Relations and State Policy" to members of the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
- Dr Andreas Hoff, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford. Dr Hoff visited CIRCLE on 4 March to speak at a seminar organised in collaboration with Timescapes and FLaG. The title of his presentation was "Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe." During his visit, Dr Hoff met with Sue Yeandle and members of the CIRLCE team to discuss future collaboration opportunities.
Visitors in 2008
- Kylie Sait, PhD Student, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (CRSI) at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
- Dr Majda Hrzenjak and Dr Ziva Humer, Peace Institute, Slovenia visited the CIRCLE team at the end of September. They are following the framework Fiona Williams set up for her migration and care project so that results will make for cross national comparisons on care and, indirectly, migration.
- Dr Teppo Kröger, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Following Dr Kroger's visit to CIRCLE in January 2008, Sue Yeandle joined the WOCAWO (Working Carers or Caring Workers) international project group, based in Finland. Funding is now being sought to support full engagement with this project through new UK- based work, developed in collaboration with Prof Lena Robinson, University of West of Scotland.
- Professor Bettina Cass, Professorial Fellow from the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Professor Deborah Brennan, also a Professor at the SPRC, visited CIRCLE in September as part of the British Academy funded project on Child Care, Welfare Reform and Women's Labour Force participation: in Australia and UK held by Deb Brennan and Fiona Williams. Bettina also chaired a session at the Welfare to Work Conference held in the Business School, organised by the School of Sociology and Social Policy. During her visit, she had meetings with both Fiona Williams and Sue Yeandle on widening the UK-Australia link to include Canada, Sweden, and Finland, with a view to developing an international network on child care and elder care.
Visitors in 2007
- Dr Ann Nevile, Senior Lecturer , Policy and Governance Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Canberra, Australia.
- Kyogo Nishida, Japan, graduated with BA in Social Sciences.