Situating masculinity, labour migration and care over the life course in Lesotho: foregrounding survivor bias in researching care

The literature on later life care is dominated by a focus on women as carers, on older people as receivers, not providers of care, and by the analytical disembedding of care from wider social and economic processes. We examine the experiences of care and caring of former labour migrants who had migrated from Lesotho to work in South Africa’s mines to examine how these have changed over their lives. The later demanded the tying of experience into wider social, economic and demographic processes. The research identified a methodological issue in the study of later life care: survivor bias

Stuck in loops: Re-conceptualising rural young people’s livelihood trajectories in contexts of poverty

...Economic and Social Research Council (Ref: RES 167-25-0167) Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

Ethical principles, social harm and the economic relations of research: negotiating ethics committee requirements and community expectations in ethnographic research in rural Malawi

ESRC-DFID project, Education systems aspiration and learning in remote rural settings, grant no. ES/M009076/