Kathy Fitzpatrick is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.   She has completed a BA and MA in Geography at Simon Fraser University.  As a PhD Candidate at Memorial University, Kathy Fitzpatrick will be conducting fieldwork related to Employment-related Geographical Mobility.  More specially, her research examines employment-related geographical mobilities within the working lives of Newfoundland home care workers and their consequences for these precarious workers and their families, home care agencies and small rural communities.  Her research interests include labour mobility, precarious work, gender and work, and gender and health