Caring about Care is a research project co-led by Elise Klein and Janet Hunt and funded by the Gender Institute. The project focuses on the unpaid care work performed by First Nations women and seeks to address the gap in literature on the subject. Using qualitative research and fieldwork, the project is ongoing and aims to lead into further research, with the researchers submitting an application for ARC funding. Working with First Nations women and organisations, the research seeks to understand how First Nations women themselves conceptualise care work, how they value and experience it, including its challenges, how much of it they do, and how and if policy could better recognise and value it.

The fieldwork for this project has been completed, and the group will further publish two research reports, a workshop report, a working paper, and at least one academic article. The research group is a continuous project which will remain active after publication of these reports, connecting researchers across ANU.