Jackie Gulland

Dr Jackie Gulland is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh. Her work is inter-disciplinary and crosses the fields of social policy, sociology, social work, history and law.   Her research interests include:

• Disability
• Older people
• Caring
• Gender 
• How people negotiate their rights within the welfare state. 

Her current research concerns gender and care and the relationship between the social security system and concepts of work and reproductive labour. Jackie’s recent publications include:

• Gulland, J., 2020. Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: Caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19. Feminist Legal Studies 28, 329–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09445-z
• Cree, V., Morrison, F., Mitchell, M., Gulland, J., 2020. Navigating the gendered academy: women in social work academia. Social Work Education 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1715934
• Gulland, J., 2019. Gender, work and social control: a century of disability benefits. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. [winner of the Social Policy Association Richard Titmuss Book Prize, 2020]
• Gulland, J., & McSwiggan, E. (2026). Older caregivers: challenging and enriching our assumptions about ageing and about caring. Journal of Global Ageing (published online ahead of print 2026). Retrieved Jul 22, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.1332/29767202Y2026D000000052
• Gulland, J. (2023) ‘How Does Carer’s Allowance in the UK Construct Family Carers? History and Recent Developments’, International Journal of Care and Caring, 8, pp. 98–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16716339335353.
• Gulland, J. (2024a) ‘Administrative Justice and Austerity: The Case of Disputes About Adult Social Care’, in S. Cowan and S. Halliday (eds) Socio-Legal Generation: Essays in Honour of Michael Adler. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 187–207. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67244-6_10.