Rosie Read

Dr Rosie Read

  • u_rread at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Principal Academic
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Biography

I am a social anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests encompassing care, work, feminisms, civil society, health, welfare and the state. Much of my research explores how waged and unwaged forms of caring work are structured and defined by gender and class, amongst other things. I'm currently leading a British Academy funded qualitative study, exploring experiences of giving and receiving care in home settings during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021, in which I compare perspectives of home care workers, volunteers and carers in urban and rural regions of south-west England.

My earlier ethnographic and qualitative research has been undertaken in the Czech Republic and the UK, funded by the UK Research Council, the British Academy and non-profit sector organisations.

In my current role as Principal Lecturer at Bournemouth University, I teach the following modules on undergraduate sociology, anthropology and criminology programmes: Understanding Globalisation, Introduction to Social Anthropology and Doing Ethnographic Research.

Favourites

  • Read, R., 2021. Unwaged labour intensified: Volunteer management and work targets at a UK charity. Sociological Review, 69 (1), 223-239.
  • Read, R., 2019. Caring Values and the Value of Care: Women, Maternalism and Caring Work in the Czech Republic. Contemporary European History, 28 (4), 500-511.
  • Read, R. and Fenge, L.A., 2019. What does Brexit mean for the UK social care workforce? Perspectives from the recruitment and retention frontline. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27 (3), 676-682.
  • Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag.
  • Read, R., 2005. Altering Care: Gifts and Emotion in Nursing Practice within a Czech Nursing Home. In: Haukenes, H. and Pine, F., eds. Generations, Kinship and care. Gendered Provisions of Social Security in Central Eastern Europe. Bergen, Norway: Center for Women's and Gender Research, 137-162.
  • Read, R., 2005. Scopic Regimes and the Observational Approach: Ethnographic Filmmaking in a Czech Institution. Visual Anthropology, 18, 47-64.

Journal Articles

  • Read, R., 2021. Unwaged labour intensified: Volunteer management and work targets at a UK charity. Sociological Review, 69 (1), 223-239.
  • Read, R., 2019. Caring Values and the Value of Care: Women, Maternalism and Caring Work in the Czech Republic. Contemporary European History, 28 (4), 500-511.
  • Read, R. and Fenge, L.A., 2019. What does Brexit mean for the UK social care workforce? Perspectives from the recruitment and retention frontline. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27 (3), 676-682.
  • Read, R., 2014. Images of care, boundaries of the state: Volunteering and civil society in Czech health care. Social Analysis, 58 (3), 90-160.
  • Jones, K., Fenge, L.A., Read, R. and Cash, M., 2013. Collecting older lesbians' and gay men's stories of rural life in south west england and wales: "We were obviously gay girls ... (So) he removed his cow from our field". Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 14 (2).
  • Read, R., 2011. Humanising healthcare: Volunteered caring and the free gift in Czech hospitals. Anthropology of East Europe Review, 29, 50-59.
  • Chell, E., Karataş-Özkan, M. and Read, R., 2010. Exploring women academics' involvement in science entrepreneurship: A structuration view. , 315-332.
  • Read, R., 2010. Creating reflexive volunteers? Young people's participation in Czech hospital volunteer programmes. Journal of Youth Studies, 13 (5), 549-563.
  • Fenge, L.-A., Jones, K. and Read, R., 2010. Connecting participatory methods in a study of older lesbian and gay citizens in rural areas. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 9, 320-333.
  • Domínguez, D., Beaulieu, A., Estalella, A., Gómez, E., Schnettler, B. and Read, R., 2007. Virtual ethnography. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 8 (3).
  • Read, R., 2007. Labour and love: Competing constructions of 'care' in a Czech nursing home. Critique of Anthropology, 27 (2), 203-222.
  • Read, R. and Thelen, T., 2007. Social Security and Care After Socialism: Reconfigurations of public and private. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, 50, 3-18.
  • Read, R., 2005. Scopic Regimes and the Observational Approach: Ethnographic Filmmaking in a Czech Institution. Visual Anthropology, 18, 47-64.
  • McCajor Hall, T. and Read, R., 2005. Guest editors' notes: Special issue of Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks and Serbs. Anthropology of East Europe Review, 23, 1-6.

Books

Chapters

  • Read, R., 2017. Images of care, boundaries of the state: Volunteering and civil society in czech health care. Stategraphy Toward A Relational Anthropology of the State. 90-106.
  • Read, R., 2017. Images of care, boundaries of the state: Volunteering and civil society in czech health care. Stategraphy Toward A Relational Anthropology of the State. 90-106.
  • Read, R., 2011. Gender, Welfare and Volunteering in Czech Hospitals. In: Jäppinen, M., Kulmala, M. and Saarinen, A., eds. Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-Socialist Countries. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 231-248.
  • Read, R., 2009. Nuns, Fundraising and Volunteering. The Gifting of Care in Czech Services for the Elderly and Infirm. In: Leutloff Grandits, C., Peleikis, A. and Thelen, T., eds. Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences. Oxford, England: Berghahn Books, 128-145.
  • Read, R., 2007. Embodied Caring / Caring for Bodies. In: Lammer, C., Pichler, C. and Sawchuk, K., eds. Embodiment. Vienna, Austria: Löcker, 203-216.
  • Read, R., 2005. Altering Care: Gifts and Emotion in Nursing Practice within a Czech Nursing Home. In: Haukenes, H. and Pine, F., eds. Generations, Kinship and care. Gendered Provisions of Social Security in Central Eastern Europe. Bergen, Norway: Center for Women's and Gender Research, 137-162.

PhD Students

  • Hazel Tennant. UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative: What are the barriers, challenges and opportunities for successful implementation?, (In progress)
  • Krista Sharp. Understanding the lived experiences of young carers and how they are shaped by policy and legislation, (In progress)
  • Lee-Ann Fenge, 2009. Releasing Potential? The Challenges of Widening Participation for Students, Further Education and Higher Education, (Completed)
  • Martin Handford, 2009. Homelessness and Citizenship: Exploring the Meaning and Negotiation of Place, Space and Geography for Rough Sleepers., (Completed)
  • William Haydock, 2009. Gender, Class and ‘Binge’ Drinking: An Ethnographic Study of the Night Time Economy in a Southern English Town., (Completed)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Introduction to Social Anthropology
  • Doing Ethnographic Research
  • Understanding Globalisation
  • Culture and Society

Grants

  • Staying home, connecting care: Infrastructures and experiences of home care and voluntary support given and received at home during the UK Covid 19 lockdown and beyond. (British Academy, 01 Jul 2020). Completed
  • QR Collab MF Studentship 2018: Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative: A case study of the challenges, /barriers and opportunities affecting the implementation of standards in maternity hospital services. (Dorset Country Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 17 Sep 2018). In Progress
  • What Does Brexit Mean for Social Care? (Bournemouth University, 09 Jan 2017). Completed
  • Developing Student-Community Research Collaborations to Enhance Fusion and BU Reputation in Sociology and Anthropology (Bournemouth University Fusion Investment Fund, 15 Jan 2015). Completed
  • Sexual Harassment in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry (Bournemouth University, 01 Jul 2014). Completed
  • Chicha Power: Transforming Promotional Cultures the Peruvian Way (Bournemouth University, 01 Mar 2013). Completed
  • Grey and Pleasant Land? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Connectivity of Older People in Rural Civic Society (RCUK New Dynamics of Ageing programme, 01 Jan 2010). Completed
  • Volunteering Care: The Gendered Politics of Voluntary Networks in Three Czech Hospitals (The British Academy, 01 Jan 2008). Completed

Conference Presentations

  • International Conference 'Society after the Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and Solutions', Reproductive labour in pandemic times: unwaged caring work in the UK’s social care system during the Covid-19 pandemic, 23 Nov 2021, University of Prishtina, Kosovo
  • British Sociological Association, Work Employment Society conference, Reproductive labour during pandemic times: Assessing the caring work of family carers, waged home care workers and volunteers during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-1, 25 Aug 2021, online
  • International Workshop organised by Tallinn University, ‘(Remote) work and Covid: mobility, safety, and health at the time of the pandemic’, Caring during Covid: experiences of space, time and risk, 17 Jun 2021, online
  • European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, Unwaged labour, volunteer work and social reproduction, 20 Jul 2020, Online
  • International workshop organised by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Studies (HAIT), Dresden, Germany, 'Care and Volunteering in Transformation', Continuities and ruptures of care: volunteering, civil society and maternalism in the Czech Republic., 13 Jul 2020, Online
  • International Workshop, 'Voluntary Work, Volunteering and Voluntary Associations in the Czech Republic and Central Europe, 1980-2000', Hospital volunteering, civil society and socialist maternalism in the Czech Republic in the 1990s and 2000s., 16 May 2019, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • British Sociological Association, Work, Employment, Society conference, Targeting volunteers’ productivity: managing unwaged workers in a UK charity, 12 Sep 2018, Belfast, UK.
  • 'Quality Matters' conference, hosted by Partners in Care, What Does Brexit Mean for Social Care?, 29 May 2017, Poole, Dorset, UK.
  • European Association of Social Anthropology, 14th Biennial Conference, Charity or Call Centre? Volunteered counselling and performance management, 20 Jul 2016, Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan,, I
  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, International Conference, 'Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care', The Unfamiliarity of Altruism. Women, Caring and Volunteering in the Czech Republic, 10 Jul 2014, Halle/Salle, Germany

Qualifications

  • PGCE in Research Degree Supervision (Bournemouth University, 2007)
  • PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media (University of Manchester, 2002)
  • MA in Visual Anthropology (Manchester University, 1996)
  • BA (Hons) in Anthropology and Religious Studies (Newcastle University, 1994)

Honours

  • Higher Education Academy Senior Fellowship (Higher Education Academy, 2016)

Memberships

  • European Association of Social Anthropologists, Member (2000-), http://www.easaonline.org/
  • Higher Education Academy, Senior Fellow (2016-),