Maria Petrillo
Maria Petrillo
Dr
Research Associate, University of Sheffield
Maria Petrillo is a Research Associate at the Centre for Care, University of Sheffield, specialising in applied economics and quantitative social research. Her work focuses on labour market inequalities, wage determination, and the economics of unpaid care, using advanced quasi-experimental and multilevel methods to understand how socio-economic and health inequalities shape caregiving experiences and outcomes across places and over time.
Maria leads and co-develops data-driven policy tools, including the Unpaid Care Dashboard, and co-directs the Quantitative Analysis and Research Network for Care (QAR-Net Care). She is an ONS Accredited Researcher, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), and collaborates widely across academia, government, and the third sector to ensure research translates into meaningful policy impact.
She completed her PhD in Economics at the University of Sheffield, funded by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and holds degrees in Economics and Public Policy from the University of York and the Second University of Naples. Before joining the Centre for Care, Maria taught Microeconomics, Statistics, and Econometrics at the Universities of Sheffield and Hallam.
