Dr Isabel Shutes

Isabel Shutes is an Associate Professor in International Social and Public Policy. She is involved in a range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Isabel’s research interests focus on migration and social policy. Her research centres on inequalities relating to citizenship, migration and mobility; long-term care systems, migration and care work; transnational social protection and social rights. Her research engages with a range of actors in migration and social policy, including state and civil society actors, service providers and employers, and with the lived experiences of care, work and migration across different social groups. She has a particular interest in qualitative research methods.

Isabel has carried out research funded by the ESRC, the European Union Framework Programme, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Nuffield Foundation. She currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-24) for research on the integration of care workers in labour migration systems.

Isabel is a Research Associate at the LSE Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and the .

SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy

SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches