CONTRIBUTOR:

Carolina Gutierrez Muñoz

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Psychologist

DEPARTMENT:

UCL Institute of Education

INSTITUTION:

University College London

BIOGRAPHY:

Carolina Gutierrez Muñoz is a psychologist from the Universidad de Chile. She has an MA in child studies from King’s College, London. Currently she is completing a PhD at University College, London and is funded by a scholarship from the Chilean Government, Becas Chile. The title of her thesis is Kinship care: a study of grandparents and grandchildren in Chile. The thesis is based on original qualitative research that examines the experiences of both the grandparents who take responsibility for their grandchildren and those of their grandchildren.