As a member of the labour geography group, I am interested in the transformation of labour in the care sector. My specific focus is on long-term care facilities and how the labour process has been influenced by the logics of New Public Management.

PhD project: "Nursing the resident, not the organisation" Crticial perspective on the labour process in Swiss nurisng homes

My research project aims to explore how the current labour processes in Swiss nursing homes impacts the ability for workers to provide quality care for residents. This project is part of the Swiss Learning Health System (SLHS), with a secondary focus on the Canton on Ticino. The recruitment and retention of workers in nursing homes has been a constant challenge, and will only increase with an aging society. Although this challenge is widely recognized and accepted by a wide range of actors, the core issues are not being addressed. The professions in this sector continue to be undervalued with lower wages, poorer working conditions and a high degree of burnout. Consequently, this contributes to a poor image of the sector for aspiring applicants, and has negative consequences for residents.

Empirical evidence will be colelcted through group discussions with workers utilising conricerca (co-research). In the second phase I will conduct a case study of a Swiss nursing home that utilises a progressive method of organising their labour process. For this case study, I will primarily rely on a rapid ethnography that is complemented with a group discussion and document analysis.

since 2021 University of Zurich, Ph.D. candidate in Labour Geography 

2020           University of Kassel, MA in Labour Policies and Globalisation 

2013           University of Alberta, BA in Political Science