Dr Chloe Alexander is a Research Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, and is a Fellow of the NIHR School for Social Care Research. She specialises in qualitative and theoretical inquiries into the politics of care, particularly focussing on the experiences of children and the impact of inequalities. Her PhD research on young carers, family life and intersecting inequalities was awarded the Social Policy Association Prize for Excellence in Doctoral Research 2020. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is on the Advisory Board of On the Record CIC, an organisation that co-produces arts and heritage projects with groups who are otherwise under-represented in culture.
Research interests
- Young carers
- The politics of care and social care systems
- The sociology of families and childhood
- Affect theory
- Intersectionality theory and inequalities
- Ethnographic and creative methods
Publications
C Alexander (2021) ‘Unequal Conditions of Care and the Implications for Social Policies on Young Carers’ Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-021-00781-w
C Alexander (2021) ‘Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014’ Social Policy and Administration, 55 (5) pp.968-980 https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12692