Research study: networks of care, Australia's migrant and mobile health workforce
1 Aug 2024
If you’re a health worker, and you’ve trained and/or worked outside Australia, University of Sydney researchers would like to speak to you.
Led by Dr Leah Williams Veazey, Research Fellow in Sociology, this study is exploring how healthcare workers’ family relationships and informal care responsibilities shape their migration decisions, experiences in the workplace and plans for the future.
Attempts to attract and retain health workers often centre on professional skills and working conditions, rather than on health workers as members of families, networks and communities.
This neglects many dimensions of their lives, including their informal care commitments and attachments – caring for children or elderly parents, for example.
The Australian healthcare system is globally connected via the movement of people and sharing of knowledge.
Researchers would like to know what matters to you when it comes to making decisions about migration, settlement, work and care. How do you navigate care relationships (in Australia and overseas), and connections to workplaces and professional identities in the context of international mobility?