Seminar Series:
The CareVisions Seminar Series is one of the ways in which we seek to build a collaborative, interdisciplinary network of researchers and practitioners interested in the future of care relations in Ireland and beyond. We host regular seminars with thinkers and practitioners who share insights into knowledge, theories and public policy debates about the ethics and practice of care in Ireland and internationally. Seminars are advertised in advance and open to all interested. Recordings and other materials from seminars are available below.
What Have We Learned about Long-term Care in the Pandemic?
Professor Mary Daly May 2021
Researching Care Workshop:
The CareVisions research project & UCC’s Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) hosted an in-person workshop on 14 October 2022 for UCC academics, researchers, doctoral students and masters students and staff.
The Researching Care Workshop provided an opportunity for sharing of current care research in UCC, discussion of future research ideas, and the development of networks in care research, including through the ISS21’s CARE 21 Research Cluster.
You can find the workshop programme here:
Selected papers presented at the workshop are available below.
Care Provision: A Feminist Economist's Perspective
Speaker: Professor Nancy Folbre, Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussant: Professor Mary Murphy, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University
November 2021
Postgrowth, Care and Social Policy: Making Connections
Dr Fiona Dukelow, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC (Presenter) and Dr Mary P. Murphy, Department Of Sociology, Maynooth University.
CareVisions Researching Care Workshop
October 2022
Care and Capitalism: Moving beyond Capitalocentric thinking about equality, social justice & politics
Speaker: Professor Kathleen Lynch, Professor Emerita of Equality Studies at University College Dublin & a Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
January 2022
CO-AGE: Exploring the potential for development of care co-operatives to support older people to age well at home
Dr Carol Power and Dr Caroline Crowley
Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
CareVisions Researching Care Workshop
October 2022
The Care Economy in Crisis: A post-COVID-19 feminist recovery plan
Speakers: Laura Turquet, Policy Advisor and Deputy Chief of Research and Data, UN Women and Silke Staab, Research Specialist, UN Women
Discussant: Ailbhe Smyth, CareVisions research advisory group
Monday 7 February
Relational research and producing knowledge about care
Speaker:Dr Lizzie Ward, Principal Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton (UK)
Discussant: Dr Pauline Cullen, Associate Professor, Sociology, Maynooth University
Monday 25th April 2022
The Dark Side of Care
Speakers: Dr Tiina Sihto, University of Helsinki & Dr Paula Vasara, Tampere University
Discussant: Dr Katherine O'Donnell, University College Dublin & Justice for Magdalenes Research Group
Monday 14th November 2022
Valuing Care in Feminist and Disability Politics
Speaker: Professor Janice McLaughlin, Sociology, Newcastle University
Monday 24th April 2023