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Project Aims

Making it to the Registers has five key aims:

  1. Conduct an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of modern registration and fitness to practice in action.
  2. Generate new interdisciplinary frameworks to understand the role of contingent 'crisis' (such as wars and pandemics) in shaping the rules relating to ordinary and emergency registration and fitness to practice and in creating a professionalised, competent, diverse healthcare workforce.
  3. Amplify the voices of overseas-trained carers and those who support them.
  4. Understand the current relationship between registration, fitness to practice and the inclusion/exclusion of overseas-trained carers, and the impact of this relationship on broader legal, social and cultural ways of acknowledging the contribution of overseas trained carers to healthcare in the UK.
  5. Contribute to the literature on historical and ethnographic methods and broader analyses of professionalisation and state-making, by using registration and fitness to practice as illustrative objects of analysis, and using analogies from other regulatory contexts.