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2014/15 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

SLSP5148M Researching Care in Comparative Perspective

30 creditsClass Size: 15

Module manager: Rosa Mas Giralt
Email: r.masgiralt@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2014/15

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 2:1 BA (Hons) in the Social Sciences or related disciplined. English language requirements as directed by School Policy

Module replaces

NA

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module explores contemporary research and scholarship on care from a comparative and international perspective. Students will develop an in-depth advanced understanding of the socio-demographic and historical transformations which have led to the growing demand for care, the existing welfare and social protection models across the globe and how they are changing, and the challenges facing different countries in relation to their policy trajectories and socio-cultural expectations as well as the interactions between migration and care. The module will also provide students with the theoretical understanding and research skills necessary to develop their own proposals, including awareness of the ethics of conducting research.

Objectives

The objectives of this module are:

- To provide students with a thorough grounding on contemporary scholarship and research on care with a focus on socio-economic and demographic transitions and develop their critical thinking on these areas
- To examine, compare and contrast existing and developing welfare models and social protection systems using an international comparative approach
- To consider the interactions between migration and care, including its impact on origin and receiving societies and the transnational care arrangements of migrant families
- To explore different types of care from a lifecourse perspective and different forms and combinations of paid and unpaid caregiving
- To provide students with the advance skills and knowledge necessary to undertake further independent research on care and use research evidence to support policy or practice communities

Learning outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:

- Appraise and compare contemporary welfare models and social protection systems and their dynamics of change in the context of increased demand for care
- Analyse the interactions between migration and care and conceptualise their impacts on sending and receiving societies
- Contrast different types of social care from a lifecourse perspective and recognise the differing care needs of sick, disabled and older people and of dependent children
- Understand and apply key concepts and theories used in analysing caring, patterns of care, work care reconciliation and the nexus migration/care
- Formulate ideas, arguments and hypotheses relevant to the advanced study of care and develop, implement and execute plans to evaluate or research these reflexively

Skills outcomes
- The ability to practice self-directed learning and self-management for the undertaking of a higher research degree or for employment in higher capacity in an area of professional practices
- Advanced critical thinking and analysis skills to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
- Research and evaluation skills for investigating care, work and migration and exploiting research knowledge to support policy or practice communities
- Fluency and high competence in written and verbal communication skills, including the presentational skills needed to communicate research to a variety of audiences

Syllabus

The module will be organised in a series of lectures and seminars. The seminars will include collaborative work for presentations and discussions around key readings. The lectures will cover the following main thematic streams:

Contemporary care studies and research: conceptualising and researching care across the globe; the socio-economic and demographic factors involved in the 'global crisis of care'; care models and the diversity of strategies, institutions and practices for providing care; cross-country perspectives on the links between social protection and social reproduction; the nexus migration/care.

Caring roles and practices in transition: cross-cultural and gender perspectives into caring responsibilities and intergenerational obligations; the challenges of reconciling work and care through the life course - employment/family management; care as employment, emerging patterns of care work; migrant care workers and care challenges in countries of origin; carers and the unpaid caring contributions of families, friends and neighbours; models of carer support, carers' rights and technologies which support care.

'Doing research': developing skills in project design, ethical reflections and procedures and research implementation on care, work and migration, including the insights of specialist guest scholars and/or practitioners.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	11	1.00	11.00
Seminar	11	1.00	11.00
Tutorial	2	0.50	1.00
Private study hours			277.00
Total Contact hours			23.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

The 277 hours of private study and self-directed study will include: 44 hours reading in preparation for lectures and independent study; 83 hours reading and preparation for group presentations and reading of key texts to discuss at seminars; and 150 hours of information searching and reading for the assessed essay.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored through seminar and lecture attendance, group/collaborative presentations and level of participation (and quality of contributions) in reading discussions. The combination of different modes of teaching delivery and learning activities will facilitate the monitoring and assessment of student progress. Group/collaborative activities will also offer students the opportunity to receive feedback from peers and the teaching team and to evaluate their own progress against that of other students. These procedures will enable the teaching team to ensure that students are progressing satisfactorily.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	5,000 words	80.00
Group Project	Group/Collaborative oral presentation	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 28/07/2015

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