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Professor Kirstein Rummery is a leading academic in Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology at the University of Stirling. She has held this position since 2007, following roles at the Universities of Manchester, Birmingham, and Kent. Her research focuses on care poverty, gender equality, disability rights, and dementia-friendly communities. Notably, she leads NIHR/ESRC-funded work on Dementia Friendly Neighbourhoods and a Big Lottery-funded DRILL project on costing self-directed support. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Constitutional Change (University of Edinburgh) and affiliated with research programs like Ageing and Dementia, Healthy Ageing in Scotland (HAGIS), and Public Services and Governance.
Her academic contributions span comparative care policies, women’s political participation, and devolution. Awards include Fellowships from the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. Her recent publications address care poverty, dementia’s spatial impact, and policy conflicts in social citizenship.
Research interests include intersectional feminist approaches to policy analysis, disability activism, and the role of neighborhoods in supporting people with dementia. She emphasizes the need for equitable care systems and challenges in planning services under austerity.
