Dr Chloe Tarrabain's Outputs (8)

Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
Book Chapter

The chapter examines the labelling of pregnant women as vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, examining its implications and the broader concept of vulnerability. While the labelling aimed to protect pregnant women, it also reinforced ge... Read More about Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The invisible labour of new mothers on maternity leave in a global pandemic (2024)
Report

This report examines how the Covid-19 pandemic profoundly reshaped mothers' experiences during maternity leave, with a particular focus on the invisible labour they perform. Invisible labour, often unacknowledged and uncompensated, is a significant y... Read More about The invisible labour of new mothers on maternity leave in a global pandemic.

The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the enterprising-self (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores migrant workers’ experiences of organisational control while undertaking temporary agency work. This study is based on a ‘covert’ ethnographic study set at a temporary employment agency that short-term contracts workers to the c... Read More about The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the enterprising-self.

Gamifying the virtual learning environment: A case study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation aims to contribute to deeper understandings of how gamification has been practically used on a first-year undergraduate module to encourage student engagement and participation beyond asynchronous sessions. Online innovations have b... Read More about Gamifying the virtual learning environment: A case study.

Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self (2022)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the author explores the ethical continuum through a reflection on her own “identity work” during her fieldwork, considering how the ethics of doing covert research are always complex, situated and political. She considers how the pow... Read More about Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self.

Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the experiences of uncertainty and insecurity that migrant agency workers in relation to their work and socio-cultural context taking a specific interest in how these experiences are informed by and inform their self-understanding... Read More about Crafting identities in insecure employment: An ethnographic exploration of the experiences of temporary agency workers.

Crafting the margins: Promoting dis-identification in temporary agency work
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Contemporary work has seen the proliferation of temporary forms of employment where short-termism and indeterminacy of labour is valued over long-term organisational commitment. The rise of flexibility has brought about new questions which challenge... Read More about Crafting the margins: Promoting dis-identification in temporary agency work.

Identities in the margins: An ethnographic study of migrant agency workers
Thesis

Migrant workers have long constituted a fundamental part of the hospitality sector in the UK. Taking up jobs such as housekeeping, kitchen portering and plate waiting, these workers have formed an essential yet undervalued role in the service economy... Read More about Identities in the margins: An ethnographic study of migrant agency workers.