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Basics
| Name | Camille Allard |
| Label | Researcher in Sociology |
| Summary | Camille Allard is a Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. She is a sociologist researching different aspects of caring and the care economy from a feminist perspective. Her research has focused on care and wellbeing support and practices within organisations for individuals with care responsibilities, or those experiencing life events such as grief and loss, and the roles of knowledge/evidence use, social imaginaries, and epistemologies. She has extensive experience leading qualitative research in international contexts, having explored a variety of topics, including individual experiences of work and care among ageing workers and British working carers, and wellbeing perspectives in schools and workplaces in the UK. |
Work
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2024.05 - Present Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor
University degli Studi di Milano
Conducting critical discursive analysis of political documents and interviews with leaders of youth-led social and climate movement organizations.
- Carrying critical discursive analysis of political documents to highlight possibilities for alternatives imaginaries
- Conducting interviews with leaders and volunteers of youth-led social and climate movement organizations
- Exploring contributions towards alternatives imaginaries discourses
- Adjunct Professor for the module in Globalization, Social Justice and Human Rights and the seminar series The Politics of Care
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2021.01 - 2024.04 Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer
University of Birmingham
Led research on workplace wellbeing and delivered lectures on health and social policy implementation.
- Leading scoping review on decision-making approaches in workplaces regarding staff wellbeing
- Conducting semi-structured and think-aloud interviews with employers
- Designing and delivering lectures on health and social policy implementation
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2019.01 - 2021.01 Research Assistant and Teaching Associate
University of Sheffield
Conducted policy analysis and delivered teaching in sociology and management.
- Policy documents analysis on recognition of family carer roles
- Leading seminars on Sociology of Work, Organizational Behaviour, and Research Methods
- Teaching Classical Sociological Thoughts and Psycho-social determinants of health
Education
Awards
- 2021.01
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Higher Education Academy
Recognition for involvement in Higher Education teaching in the UK
Publications
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2026 Whose idea will be chosen?
Organization Studies and Medical Humanities: A New Lens for Organizing, Managing and Understanding Health and Healthcare
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2025 Care as Capital: Developing theory about school investment in mental health and wellbeing
Social Science & Medicine
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2025 How Care Inequalities are Reproduced in Carer-Friendly Jobs: The Case of Employer-Led Carer’s Leave
Work, Employment and Society
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2024 Policies for working carers in the UK context
Combining work and care: care leave and related employment policies in international context
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2023 Speaking up as a working carer: working carers use of voice and struggles for representation in the workplace
International Journal of Care and Caring
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2023 Guilt, Care, and the Ideal Worker: Comparing Guilt Among Working Carers and Care Workers
Gender, Work & Organization
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2022 -
2021 Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care [Book Review]
International Journal of Care and Caring
Book review of Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting
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2021 Birth and death: experience, ethics, politics [Book Review]
Mortality
Book review of Birth and death: experience, ethics, politics by Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward
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2020 Challenges of combining work and unpaid care, and solutions: A scoping review
Health & Social Care in the Community
Skills
| Research Methods | |
| Critical Discursive Analysis | |
| Semi-structured Interviews | |
| Policy Analysis | |
| Qualitative Research |
| Lecturer | |
| Responsible of 'The Politics of Care', 20 hour seminar at the University of Milan (Undergraduates and Postgraduates) | |
| Co-lecturer of 'Health policy', module at the University of Birmingham (MSc Postgraduate Students) |
| Guest Lecturer for the modules | |
| Gender and Social Justice (University of Milan, Postgraduates) | |
| Introduction to research (University of Birmingham, Undergraduates) | |
| Sociology of Professions: ‘becoming’ a doctor (University of Birmingham, Undergraduates) | |
| The Sociology of Everyday Life (University of Sheffield, Undergraduates) | |
| Introduction to Classical Sociologial Thought (University of Sheffield, Undergraduates) | |
| Doing Social Research (University of Sheffield, Undergraduates) | |
| Work and Employment in the 21st Century (University of Sheffield, Undergraduates and Postgraduates) | |
| Organizational Behaviour (University of Sheffield, Undergraduates) | |
| Introduction to the psycho-social determinants of health (University of Sheffield, Undergraduates) |
Languages
| French | |
| Native |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Italian | |
| B1 |
Interests
| Research Interests | |
| Sociology of Work and Organizations | |
| Sociology of care | |
| Feminist theories | |
| Critical Perspectives on Wellbeing |