Research
The research of Carework Network Steering Committee members can be found here.
Check out the Special Issues from our Global Summits
Third Global Summit, 2023, University of Costa Rica:
Care policy across the Americas: Convergences and divergences (Guest editors: Cynthia J. Cranford and Flavia Marco Navarro). Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 32, 2, Summer 2025.
Second Global Summit, 2019, University of Toronto
The changing character of care work: New risks and responses (Guest editors: Janette Dill and Katherine Ravenswood). International Journal of Care and Caring, 5, 1, 2021.
Research Reflections
Our Research Reflections series pairs junior and more senior scholars who share their current research through an interactive video. Each interview reflects on how the interviewee became interested in care research, their latest work, and their involvement with the Carework Network among other aspects of care. The conversation is designed to bring carework research to a broad audience.
Research Reflections with Dr. Crystal Gaudet
Our first Research Reflection features an interview conducted by Dr. Crystal Gaudet from Huron University featuring Dr. Cindy Cain, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Cain discusses her compelling research connecting care work to burnout featured in her book Called to Care? Health Care Work, Burnout, and the Search for Meaningful Work (2026 Rutgers University Press Carework in a Changing World Series, edited by Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia and Kim Price-Glynn).
Research Reflections with Dr. Joan Tronto
Our second Research Reflection features an interview conducted by Anuneeta Chatterjee and Chetna Khandelwal from the University of Calgary, featuring the illustrious political scientist and pioneering care researcher, Dr. Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota. Dr. Tronto talks about the politics and ethics of care, linking it to a new book she is writing on “bad care” and how it sits in contrast to “deep care.”
Carework Conversations
Authors and Activists
Interactive discussions on recent books to push the boundaries of academia and activism.
Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival
LaShawnDa Pittman, Ph.D
Grandmothering While Black illuminates the strategies used by African American grandmothers raising grandchildren to manage their legal marginalization from parents and the state. Author Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman of the University of Washington Seattle engaged in a lively discussion with Lynn Ng Yu Ling of the University of Victoria, Fayana Richards of the Michigan Public Health Institute, and Barb Taylor of the King County Kinship Collaboration.
Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives
Ayesha Khan
Senior Research Fellow, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Program, OID
Gabriela Marzonetto
Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University
Sadiyya Haffejee
Associate Professor and Practicing Psychologist, Centre for Social Development, Africa