Erika Kispeter is a qualitative social researcher, with an interest in the paid and unpaid work of long-term care and gender in/equalities. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Research Group on Care Workforce Change at the ESRC-funded Centre for Care.

She has been involved in studies on: the digital skills of the adult social care workforce in England; how social care employers make decisions around employing migrant workers; the labour market position of women who provide long-term care to family or friends while also working for pay; and the quality of gender equality policies, with a particular focus on work-care reconciliation policies.

She is particularly interested in: how ‘front line’ care workers utilise their skills in their everyday work and, closely connected to this, how new work roles are created in social care and at the intersection of health and social care.

More information about Erika’s research and publications is available on her LSHTM profile page.