People
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Co-Directors
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
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nathan.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk
Academic staff
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
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b.driscoll@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
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g.whitfield@sheffield.ac.uk
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
- Email address
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s.desaille@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr
Preeti
Raghunath
Lecturer in Digital Media and Society
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Communication technologies, policies, histories, lived experiences
Global AI and data economy
Critical Policy Studies
Global South and Southernness
Deliberative Policy Analysis
- Email address
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p.raghunath@sheffield.ac.uk
