Our advisory board

Care Full’s advisory board bring together lived and professional experience of care to provide strategic guidance and support to the team.

Vicki Dabrowski

Vicki is an academic whose research explores how people experience and navigate times of crisis. She has worked in the not-for-profit sector and co-founded the Poverty Research and Advocacy Network (PRAN), which brings together academics, grassroots organisations and campaigners to reframe narratives around poverty and inequality. She joins Care Full with a deep commitment to building a future economy rooted in care, solidarity and justice.

Liam Foster

Liam is a Professor in Social Policy, and Co-Director of CIRCLE (Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities) at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in care, the workforce, theories of ageing, pensions, extending working lives, and social inequalities. His work centres on a commitment to understanding and eradicating inequalities and a providing a caring economy, by fostering inclusivity and wellbeing of individuals, families and households across the life course.

Samanthi Theminimulle

Samanthi does research and facilitation with and for communities, in support of grassroots movements and to influence policy. She has experiences of paid care and sees the caring economy as an opportunity to expose, unpick and transform interlocking systems, towards new ways to connect and relate to each other.

Kate Paradine

Kate currently leads the national oracy education charity, Voice 21, and was previously CEO of Women in Prison and co-founder of the National Women’s Justice Coalition. She believes the caring economy imagined by Care Full is a foundation stone for justice, fairness and a society that prioritises connections with, and responsibilities for each other, the places we call home, our communities and the world we live in.

Alice Wilson

Alice is an academic and writer based in Yorkshire. She is interested in othered groups and how they access, catalyse, and distribute power. She has worked in community organising as well as the private sector, and believes that a world beyond neoliberal capitalism is both possible and within our reach. She is working to prove that.

Irene Mwendwa

Irene is a legal professional with extensive experience in innovative collaborations and executing projects that deliver better policies and legal frameworks on public policy issues such as the future of work, data and technology.