Louise is involved in the direction of a series of comparative, socio-legal, projects all concerned with aspects of intra-Community mobility within the European Union and the relationship between mobility and citizenship. Her work includes a concern with the development of social policy at European Union level and the interface of EC law and policy with domestic welfare systems. It is also interested in the relationship between the development of formal rights and services and citizens or users. The impact of mobility on both formal legal and social status and the response of intra-Community migrants to formal rights at supra-national and domestic level, particularly the extent to which this shapes the distribution of caring resources and responsibilities across geographical and legal spaces, thus forms the focus of her work. Current projects includes studies of the impact of mobility on women, on children in mobile families, on elderly people who move post-retirement and on young researchers moving for work within the EU. Louise works primarily on CAVA's Strand 3c project - Transnational Kinship.