Welcome to the Care Matters podcast.
On this page you can listen to all of our podcast episodes in the Care Matters series. If you have a comment for us about the series, please click here get in touch.
The Care Matters podcast is produced by Dan Williamson at the Centre for Care and CIRCLE.
Latest Episode: How Language Matters in Transnational Care: In conversation with Professor Loretta Baldassar
In this episode of How Language Matters, Dr Jayanthi Lingham (Centre for Care, University of Sheffield) speaks with Professor Loretta Baldassar (Edith Cowan University, Australia) about the critical- but often overlooked- role of language in shaping care experiences among ageing migrant populations.
Mini-series
Within the main Care Matters Series are mini-series which focus on a particular area or issue in Social Care.
Digital Care Futures
The Digital Care Futures series explores the evolving role of digital technologies in transforming adult social care, highlighting the shift from reactive risk-based approaches to proactive and preventative services.
Through expert-led conversations and real-world examples, these episodes look at the opportunities and limitations in creating smarter and more person-centred digital solutions for care.
Sustainable Care and COVID-19
The Sustainable Care and COVID-19 series examines the impact of the pandemic on adult social care systems, highlighting vulnerabilities and the scope for advancements.
Through expert-led conversations, these episodes examine how COVID-19 has reshaped Care, primarily in areas such as the role of migrant workers, the use of technology in home care, the challenges of transnational care and the push for systemic reform.
Authors of Care
The authors of the Care series explores the ideas and experiences shaping the care sector through in-depth conversations with authors and researchers in the field of social care.
In these episodes, the host and the guests discuss the key themes of the books on care, offering critical reflections on areas such as care poverty and the social care crisis while providing recommendations for positive change and reform.
How Language Matters
In this series, the Borders and Care team look at questions and themes such as:
- How complex or shifting language within the care system can act as a barrier to services.
- Is focusing on language a distraction from addressing systemic issues like underfunding and inequality?
- How language can draw attention to invisible forms of labour and care.
- The impact of words like “dependency” in framing people as passive rather than interdependent.
All episodes
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