Millie’s PhD project is provisionally titled “Who cares for those who care? A feminist approach to migrant workers’ experiences of care in the UK”. She plans to use gender and race as categories of analysis for understanding the experiences of migrant care workers and their families in the face of recent policy changes that limit migrants’ rights to bring dependents to join them in the UK. She aims to consider systems of support and mutual care that may exist between care workers and their social networks beyond the workplace. Millie is keen to apply principles of feminist methodologies to her doctoral research which will involve constant reflection on her positionality as a researcher and analysis of how hierarchical relationships of power interact at all levels of her participants’ everyday experiences.
Millie has an undergraduate degree in Latin American studies from the University of Liverpool and a master’s in gender studies from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia). She joined the University of Sheffield in 2024 after being awarded a Centre for Care studentship. Her supervisors are Professor Majella Kilkey and Professor Sundari Anitha.
Research interests
- Gender and care
- Migration
- Feminist theory
- Race and racialisation
- Relationships and networks
Publications
Masters dissertation (Spanish)