Rachel Rosen

• Professor of Sociology, Social Research Institute, UCL

My research focuses on marginalised children and families, especially those with precarious immigration status; the intersection of neoliberal welfare and border regimes which shape their lives; and their practices of sustenance, care, social reproduction, and solidarity. My research, teaching, and public engagement is located at the intersections of sociology of childhood and materialist feminist thought.

Methodologically, I am interested in the ethics and politics of ethnography and participatory research with children and other marginalised social groups. I am committed to change-orientated research for social justice, and co-design and collaborative knowledge production lie at the heart of my approach.

I sat on the Faculty Ethics Committee from 2014-2021 and have worked with migrants' rights organisations in Canada and the UK since the 1990s, including as a community researcher.

I am the director of the Critical Childhood Studies Centre ( and a member of the editorial board of the journals Childhood, Children's Geographies, and Sociedad e Infancias)

• 2017–present Associate professor, UCL
• 2013–2017 Lecturer, Institute of Education
• 2010–2013 Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University

• 2014 University of London, PhD
• 2008 University of East London, MA

• 2020 SOLIDARITIES: Negotiating migrant deservingness Role: CI Funding Source: Nordforsk
• 2019 Children Caring on the Move Role: Lead CI Funding Source: ESRC
• 2018 Social reproduction in the shadows: Migrant mothers and children with no recourse to public funds Role: PI Funding Source: BA/Leverhulme

MENAFN04092025000199003603ID1110019361