Fiona Williams is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Between 1999 -2005 she was Director of the ESRC CAVA Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare, and now co-directs the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE) with Professor Sue Yeandle at the University of Leeds. She has written widely on gender, 'race' and ethnicity in social policy, and is currently researching the employment of migrant workers in home-based care in Europe with colleagues in Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany. Her teaching and research interests focus on the place of care in contemporary society, including the changing nature of family lives and personal relationships, and the development of a political ethic of care.
Her recent publications include Gendering citizenship in Western Europe: new challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context with R. Lister, A. Antonnen, M. Bussemaker, U.Gerhard, S.Johansson, J. Heinen, A. Leira, R. Lister, B. Siim. C. Tobio, and A.Gavanas, (The Policy Press, 2007); ‘The Intersection of Child Care Regimes and Migration Regimes: a Three–country Study’ (with A. Gavanas) in H. Lutz ed. Migration and Domestic Work: a European Perspective on a Global Theme. London, (Routledge, 2007); Empowering Parents in Local Sure Start Programmes (with H. Churchill, DfES, 2006); Rethinking Families (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2004) and ‘In and beyond New Labour: towards a new political ethic of care’ in Critical Social Policy, 21(4), 2001. She was one of the contributors to The Good Life: a programme for political renewal from the pressure group COMPASS (2006). She is currently working on a contribution to The Global Political Economy of Care: Integrating Ethics and Social Politics (R. Mahon and F. Robinson eds, UCB Press, 2009).
She is co-editor of Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.
E-mail: J.F.Williams@leeds.ac.uk
