Research

My research interest is with the social and cultural aspects of organization and management as they appear in organizational processes, including organizational change. I advocate methodological pluralism and use a wide range of qualitative methods to advance an understanding of how change affects the organization of work, the content and nature of work, and is responded to by employees and managers. Specifically, I have looked at the standardization of work, merger, professional identity and professionalization, digital technology, robots and automation in the hospital sector particularly. Theoretically I work primarily with Bourdieu’s practice theory but also with discourse theory, framing theory and others. 

Research areas:

• Digitalization and robotization in hospitals
• Professional identity and boundary constructions in healthcare
• Performance management and work monitoration
• Power and management
• Hospital department merger
• Privatization

Research projects:

2023 - 2026 PI for the project ‘Robot technology in hospitals: An extended ethnographic study of the next generation of organizational practices. Sponsored by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

2020 - 2022  PI for the project 'Human and robot exchanges in the organizational space: the social dynamics of new work configurations in a Danish hospital'. Sponsered by Helsefonden.

2013 – 2016: Research responsible for: The social aspects of organizational change. An examination of one of the 21 recently established Danish acute care departments (PhD). Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. Co-financed by Sygehus Lillebælt.

I teach courses in organization, leadership and HRM.

Additionally, I have previously taught courses in intercultural communication, research methodology and various aspects of communication.

I supervise academic theses at all levels