Paula Mulinari
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer

Presentation

Paula Mulinari is Associate Professor in Social Work, and holds a PhD in Gender Studies. Her research focuses on issues of racialization, labour, social reproduction, and welfare state transformation, with particular attention to how changing welfare, labour market, migration, and gender regimes shape economic, temporal, and spatial inequalities as well as forms of resistance.

She is currently working on the Swedish Research Council-funded project "Labour and Love Around the Clock: Gendered and Classed Experiences of Organising Paid Work and Social Reproduction" The project explores the nexus between labour and love and how it is practised, experienced, and imagined by working-class women and men in Sweden. It examines how gendered and classed temporal regimes structure everyday practices of labour and social reproduction, as well as cultural transformations in the meanings of love.

My previous research has explored experiences of racism in consumption, the relationships between whiteness, masculinity, and trade unions, tipping practices, the care crisis, and unemployment policies.

In my teaching, I supervise undergraduate and master’s students as well as doctoral candidates. I also teach within the Social Work Programme.