Emil Bøgh Løkkegaard

Forskning

I am currently doing a PhD as part of the project ‘Robot technology in hospitals: An extended ethnographic study of the next generation of organizational practices,’ which is sponsored by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The PhD specifically examines the implementation of transportation robots for automating hospital logistics at a Danish hospital.

My research interests concern the relations between humans and technology broadly. In this regard, I have a keen interests for the dynamics of time and temporality inbetween the social and material. This includes, for example, how changes and continuities emerge over time in both expected and unexpected ways, or how different futures and pasts intersect in the immediate (present) emergence of sociomaterial relations. Methodologically, I primarily draw on qualitative methods - especially ethnographic - while I embrace a broad range of theoretical perspectives. I work abductively and stive to think with my empirical materials rather than 'apply' theory to it. For that purpose, I find practice and process theories particularly relevant and useful.

I primarily teach courses in organizational change but have also dabbled in Human Resource Management. I supervise social science and business study student projects.