Research Associate at @sheffielduni @CentreForCare | PhD: @sheffeconomics @CVER_LSE. Labour, education and gender economics.
Sheffield, England
Joined June 2018
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💡 What’s the real cost of caregiving?
Our research quantifies the caregiving penalty—income loss that caregivers face as a result of caregiving responsibilities—using an innovative 2-stage synthetic control method.
📚 Working paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10314
Feedback welcomed!🙌
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📢 Call for Papers!
QAR-Net Care’s second workshop — “Care and Inequality: Bridging Research and Practice” — will take place 15–16 Dec 2025 at @sheffielduni.
Submissions now open! 🧵👇
centreforcare.ac.uk/qar-net-…
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The Committee has drawn on evidence submitted by @CentreForCare and @MPetrillo25 in their report to warn the Government it will not achieve its ambitions to support more people into work without a functioning social care system.
The social care system in England is broken.
We're calling on Government to measure the cost of inaction on reforming the current system and see the sector's wider potential.
Read the report: committees.parliament.uk/com…
Maria Petrillo retweeted
The social care system in England is broken.
We're calling on Government to measure the cost of inaction on reforming the current system and see the sector's wider potential.
Read the report: committees.parliament.uk/com…
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ANOTHER EXCITING WEBINAR: Estimating the Cost of Informal #Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control 💰
Join @AdelinaCoHe, @JavieraCartage (@CPEC_LSE), @MPetrillo25 (@sheffielduni) + Megan Doheny (@karolinskainst) on 27 May:👉lse.zoom.us/meeting/register…
ALT Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control GOLTC QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS Interest Group webinar Date: 27 May 2025 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 BST (you can check your local time here.) Link: Register to join on Zoom
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Interested in engaging with global experts in #health + #SocialCare?🌍
In April + May, we're hosting a series of exciting webinars - there's something for everyone, from ethics of #caretech, to #workforce retention, #continence care + more!
MORE DETAILS:👉goltc.org/news/
ALT Round-up of GOLTC webinars: Exploring new and “old” ethical issues when using new technology in LTC. 24 April 2025 Care Workforce Retention – what factors are critical and how they change with worker age. 30 April 2025 The politics of live-in care migration: a comparative study of Taiwan, Austria, and Germany. 8 May 2025 Global initiatives on continence care in long-term care. 14 May 2025. Ageing out of Place: Rethinking Aging, Place, and Policy in Times of Change 19 May 2025 Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control. 27 May 2025
Very excited to be part of the final evidence session for the @CommonsHealth. We’ll be discussing the cost of inaction and the financial consequences faced by unpaid carers. Looking forward to an important conversation! #SocialCareReform
Tomorrow, 9:30am 🕤
We're holding the final evidence session of our inquiry into the cost of inaction on adult social care reform
We'll be hearing directly from unpaid carers, and gathering expertise from @MPetrillo25 @CentreForCare and @age_uk
🔗 in the comments.
ALT A carer helping someone to walk. Text that reads: Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction Watch on Parliament Live
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🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.)
@TCDsociology
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: tcd.ie/sociology/vacancies/
Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity
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Our new report in partnership with @kinshipcharity estimates kinship carers contribute £4.3 billion a year to society, or £12 million per day, without financial support from the government.
Read the report here: centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
£12 million a day. That’s the amount Kinship carers save the government by taking in children who would otherwise be in foster care. But 1 in 8 carers are facing the possibility they can’t continue care.
Read about the research which is calling on the UK government to equalise support between kinship families, and foster and adoptive families: sheffield.ac.uk/news/kinship…
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The report 'Valuing Kinship Care in England' is written by @MPetrillo25 @JingwenZhang26 @BeckyDriscoll1 & @nathanjhughes @CentreForCare & free to download: 2/2
centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
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Our new report published today in collaboration with @kinshipcharity estimates the economic contribution made by kinship carers at £4.3 billion per year.
Unlike foster carers, most kinship carers do not receive financial support from the government.
centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
ALT Text: Centre for Care New report: Kinship carers struggling to cope despite £4.3 billion value they add to society.
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Our new research in collaboration with @kinshipcharity is featured on @BBCNews today: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1we…
In our research we estimates kinship carers contribute £4.3 billion a year to society.
#ValueOurLove
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George Leckie and I have created a new short MAIHDA tutorial, with videos and practical exercises:
ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/…
It's based on our tutorial paper in SSM Pop Health @socscimed, but shorter and more interactive.
Hope it's helpful! @NCRMUK
Come work with us 🙌🏻
Deadline: 7th of Feb ‼️
Join our team!
We are seeking a paid intern to offer technical assistance for a maximum of one day a week to help and support QAR-Net Care!
Follow the link below to learn more and apply, please share!
centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
ALT QAR-Net Care logo and text: Join our team!
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Our figures on the value of #unpaidcare published today in collaboration with @CarersUK are mentioned here by Baroness Pitkeathley in @UKHouseofLords The value of unpaid care is now estimated to be £184 billion per year. Read more: centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
@ESRC @NIHRresearch
We thank Baroness Pitkeathley for raising the findings from the research report that we launched this morning to mark #CarersRightsDay in the @UKHouseofLords.
The value of carers' support is now estimated to be a staggering £184 billion a year - go.carersuk.org/ValuingCarer…
Thrilled to launch Valuing Carers 2022: Scotland with @CarersScotland yesterday. Our research reveals the incredible £15.9bn annual contribution of unpaid carers and the urgent need for greater support. #CarersRightsDay #UnpaidCarers
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We have published another report today in collaboration with @CarersUK for #carersrightsday, looking at the value of #unpaidcare in all four nations of the UK, estimated to be a staggering £184 billion per year.
Read this report here: centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
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Centre for Care researchers @JingwenZhang26 @MPetrillo25 & @DrMattBennett are in Edinburgh today for the launch of a new #valuingcarers report in collaboration with @CarersScotland.
Read the full report here: centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…
#carersrightsday
ALT The report estimates the value of #unpaidcare in Scotland to be £15.9 billion per year.
Our last paper “Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control” summarized here!
Go and check it out! ☺️
'The study’s findings underscore the pressing need to develop more effective support systems for #unpaidcarers and the people they support.'
Read a new study by the Centre for Care team researching inequalities in care: centreforcare.ac.uk/commenta…
#CarersRightsDay #socialcare
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For #CarersRightsDay we've collaborated on a new report with @CarersScotland, which estimates the value of #unpaidcare in Scotland is worth £15.9 billion.
Without unpaid carers our health and #socialcare systems would collapse.
Read the report here: centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/…