Rose Rickford
Dr Rose Rickford is a feminist qualitative social scientist whose PhD was awarded by the University of York in 2024 for her investigation into the response of grassroots community organisations to the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic in England and Wales. She developed explanatory theory about the relationship between organisational structures and processes and organisational ability to respond effectively to diverse and changing needs.
Before returning to academia, Rose worked in the voluntary and community sector for over a decade and having completed her doctorate spent a year in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, where she collected and analysed oral histories from women involved in learning and teaching manual trades in grassroots feminist skills sharing projects in 1970s-1990s Britain.
Rose is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey working in Qualitative Methods on the PAPER study, investigating ethnic inequalities in primary mental health care. She is also an editor for The Radical Notion, an internationally distributed feminist magazine, and has been an Associate Editor for Contention: A multi-disciplinary journal of social protest.
