Dr Chloe Alexander

• PhD in Social Policy, University of Birmingham, 2020
• MSc in Gender and Social Policy, LSE, 2010
• BA (Hons) History and Politics, University of York, 2009

Chloe Alexander is part of the ESRC Centre for Care, undertaking research on lifecourse and transitions. 

Her PhD research was an ethnography of young carers’ family life. It presented an account of the public and private politics of care that shaped the carer role at the intersections of disability, age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Her PhD was funded by the School for Social Policy Studentship and received the Social Policy Association Excellence in Doctoral Research Award 2020.

As Postdoctoral Policy Impact Fellow, she held discussions with young carers about the findings and how these reflect on the experiences of other families. 

Chloe Alexander has taught social research methods and delivered seminars and lectures on the subjects of gender and sexuality, feminist perspectives on social policy, third sector campaigning and sociological theory. 

Prior to her research she worked as a policy analyst, project coordinator and campaigner in the third sector. Her work included advocating for people receiving mental health services, women in prison, socially excluded parents and young adult carers.

Research interests:

• Social care
• Young carers
• Affect theory
• Intersectionality theory
• Ethnographic, creative and participatory research methods
• Third sector campaigning, particularly Disability activism and feminist organisations
• Mental health services

• Advisory Board member of advisory board for the project: Reducing barriers and improving access to support for young carers (REBIAS-YC) funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research
• Fellow of the RSA
• Member of the Social Policy Association
• Member of the International Association for Feminist Economics
• Member of the Women’s Budget Group Early Career Researcher Network