People

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Co-Directors

Professor Liam Foster

Ageing, pensions & income in later life
Gender
Work & care
Remembrance & sport
Pensions
Reform and the impact of particular governments

Email address: l.foster@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Nathan Hughes

Professor of Adolescent Health and Justice

Youth/young adult criminal justice policy
Childhood neurodevelopmental impairment
Developmental science & its applications to social sciences
Family-focused policy, practice & research methods

Email address: nathan.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk

Academic staff

Dr PJ Annand

Co-Investigator, Centre for Care
Faculty of Social Sciences

Digital care
Community-embedded and co-produced research
Survivor/service user-led research
Arts, health and wellbeing
Gender and sexuality
Trauma, violence and abuse
Housing

Email address: p.annand@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Zana Bayley

Project Officer for IMPACT
Faculty of Social Sciences

Inequity of health and social care access and provision
Palliative care
Disability and life-limiting conditions
Education and training
Qualitative methodologies

Email address: z.bayley@sheffield.ac.uk

Becky Driscoll

Research Associate
Faculty of Social Sciences

The relationships between caring, physical and mental health, and financial wellbeing.
The gendered division of care work, and how care is valued in society.
State policy on care provision and welfare reforms.
The impact of working conditions on care workers’ wellbeing and the quality of provision.
Kinship care.

Email address: b.driscoll@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Maria Teresa Ferazzoli

Deputy Networks Lead for IMPACT
Faculty of Social Sciences

Email address: m.t.ferazzoli@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Duncan Fisher

Researcher
Faculty of Social Sciences

Care and care work, particularly the conditions and practices of paid care work
Socio-economic inequalities, especially relating to gender and age (the latter focusing on youth)
Sociology of work

Email address: d.u.fisher@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Cate Goodlad

Project Officer for IMPACT
Faculty of Social Sciences

Qualitative Research
Foucault’s power/knowledge relationship and Critical Discourse Analysis
Care workers and job quality
Homecare organisation

Email address: c.m.goodlad@sheffield.ac.uk

Labour Economics
Economics of Education
Gender Economics
Applied Microeconometrics
Quantitative and quasi-experimental methods

Email address: m.petrillo@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Grace Whitfield

Research Associate
Faculty of Social Sciences

Digital exclusion and effects of digitalisation on forms of care labour.
State policy on care provision and employment regulation.
Trade union strategies within the social care sector and theorisations of unionism.
Labour theory of value and analyses of capital.

Email address: g.whitfield@sheffield.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Sue Yeandle OBE

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Sustainable care
Ageing

Email address: s.yeandle@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Asra Aslam

Lecturer in Data Science
School of Information, Journalism and Communication

I am an award-winning AI researcher and PI/Co-PI on UKRI/NIHR grants. I lead multi-institutional projects in machine learning, computer vision, and healthcare alongside Russell Group universities.

Email address: a.aslam@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Stevienna de Saille

Lecturer in Sociology
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Science and technology studies
Social robotics/robots for care
Intersectionality
Reprogenetic technologies
Heterodox economics & science policy
Responsible research and innovation