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Laura Rosa Berro Yoldi

Laura Rosa Berro Yoldi

Profile

I joined the PhD program at Leeds University Business School in October 2023.

My doctoral research is about Au Pair experiences in the UK after Brexit (after the transition period, so from January 2021), which involves great regulatory and social changes for EU citizens but also for non-EU migrants. The research aims to explore and understand the life experiences and working conditions of Au Pairs after the consolidation of Brexit (from 2021). The investigation intersects work, gender, migration and class, placing at its centre the lack of worker status and the consequences for these migrants.

Preceding this PhD, I studied for the GEMMA Master’s degree in Gender Studies at the Universities of York (UK) and Granada (UK). My master’s thesis was on the situation of Au Pairs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Research interests

Intersectional feminism: gender, migration and class.
Domestic work in the global economy and the care crisis: the conflict between capital / human life.
Domestic workers and the platform economy.
The migration regime and its intersections in the United Kingdom.

Articles/Blog and other Publications

Conferences/Presentations

  • July 2026 – Paper: “Gendered Economic Violence in the UK Au Pair Market after Brexit” | Care, Labour and Capitalism Workshop (BSA) in London.

  • May 2026 – Paper: “Au Pairs’ experiences and working conditions in the UK after Brexit” | International Labour Process Conference 2026 | University of Leeds (UK).

  • October 2025 – Exposition: “Ser Au Pair en Reino Unido tras el Brexit” | At the IX Congreso de Economia Feminista (IX Feminist Economy Congress).

  • September 2025 – Exposition: “How have the changes to the family worker exemption impacted Au Pairs from April 2024?” | At the Low Pay Commission Thirteenth Annual Research Symposium 2025.

  • 2025 – Coorganisation and introduction to Rosie Cox’s (University of Sussex) Workshop: “The End of the Family Worker Exemption: A Victory for Domestic Workers” | At the Work, People and Employment Department (University of Leeds).

  • June 2024 – Exposition: “Au Pairs: from cultural exchange to recognized workers in the UK” | During the Making Rights Reality: The Human Rights of Undocumented Migrant Workers Conference 2024 | The Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL).

Book Reviews

  • Summer 2025: “Working Yet Poor. Challenges to EU Social Citizenship” | British Sociological Association (BSA) Network Issue 150.

Job Experience in Academia

  • CONFERENCE ASSISTANT
    May 2026 | International Labour Process Conference 2026 (University of Leeds)
    At this conference, I had to welcome the attendees, provide them with their name tags, explain where the sessions were, and answer any other questions about the content. Also, I supported the main organisers with logistic issues and any other requirements they had.
  • RESEARCH ASSISTANT HORIZON
    January - March 2026 | Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
    Research Assistant role for the PRIME project (Horizon funded), under Bridget Anderson's leadership and with Eda Yazici as line manager. Supporting the team's work by organising the PRIME Seminar 2026, contacting research participants, managing invitations and particular invitees' needs, collaborating with the venue, booking travel through Key Travel, and anything else the team requires.
  • RESEARCH ASSISTANT
    November – December 2025 | January – April 2026 | Professor Kate Hardy (University of Leeds)
    This job as a Research Assistant primarily involved managing several databases used in a particular research project, verifying data against data collected from interviews with participants, creating documents to complete the database when necessary, and communicating any errors found to the main research team.
  • RESEARCH ASSISTANT HORIZON
    February - July 2025 | Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
    Research Assistant role for the PRIME project (Horizon funded), under Bridget Anderson's leadership and with Eda Yazici as line manager. Supporting the team's work by doing diverse activities such as contacting and talking to potential participants on the phone to convince them to either participate through surveys or interviews, checking interview audio to correct mistakes in the transcriptions, carefully anonymising transcriptions and protecting participants' identities, systematically and carefully managing data documents, assisting meetings, among other tasks.
  • RESEARCH INTERNSHIP
    December 2022 – February 2023 | Assistant Professor Jing Hiah (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    Research internship supporting Jing Hiah, Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, in her research “New mobilities or persistent inequalities? Exploring the intersections of migration, gender, race/ethnicity in digitalised domestic labour”. My work would focus on conducting literature reviews, preparing research reports, reviewing references, and recruiting participants.

Book Presentations

  • April 2025 – Host and organiser of the online presentation of the book “The Sexist Microphysics of Power”, by Nerea Barjola | Co-organised with Patricio Simonetto, head of the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies of the University of Leeds.

Students Support

  • “People, Work and Employment” department students representative during the course 2025-2026.

Colaborations

  • Translations and proofreading for PICUM (the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants)

Qualifications

  • MA GEMMA Gender Studies, Universities of York and Granada
  • Diplomado de Comunicación, Derechos Humanos, Género y Diversidad (Comunicar para la Igualdad, Arg.)
  • Degree in Advertising and Public Relations (University of Navarra, Spain)

Research groups and institutes

  • Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change

Research outputs

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