News : British Academy Research Grant
12 April 2007
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British Academy Research Grant To conduct ethnographic research on gender and volunteering within health settings in the Czech Republic. |
Dr Rosie Read has secured a British Academy Larger Research Grant of £27,555 to conduct ethnographic research on gender and volunteering within health settings in the Czech Republic. The research will involve conducting several months’ fieldwork (including semi-structured interviews and participant observation) amongst volunteers, staff and patients at three different Czech hospitals.
Volunteering in health and social care settings is a relatively new phenomenon in the Czech Republic. Rosie is interested in exploring its significance in terms of new alignments currently being forged between public health and welfare services on the one hand, and charitable or voluntary activities, networks and organisations, on the other. She also intends to examine the ways in which gender shapes the experiences and understandings of volunteering.
The research will be conducted over the next year and will be completed in July 2008. Rosie learned Czech as part of her doctoral research which explored changing meanings and expectations of nursing care and ‘service’ in the context of the major reform and privatisation of Czech health care in the 1990s.
