Anne Roelsgaard is granted 600.000 DKK for her second postdoc year
The Danish Cancer Society funds Anne Roelsgaard Obling’s second postdoc year with 600.000 DKK
“Everyday organisation of psychosocial work and soft relations in accelerated cancer services: A comparative study” is the name of Anne Roelsgaard Obling’s postdoc project funded by the Danish Cancer Society. It charts how cancer patients and psychosocial dimensions of cancer illnesses and their treatment become objects for organising and organisations, and furthermore what this concretely entails.
In recent years, cancer diagnostic and therapy have been organized in cancer packages or accelerated trajectories in order to make clinical and administrative procedures more streamlined, effective and measurable in the Danish health care sector. This development comes together with an increasing presence of so-called emotion agencies, which are organisational entities that are created for the purpose of supplementing the delivery of accelerated transactions with intimate and more humanistic values. The co-existence of these seemingly different tendencies attests to the need for an empirical exploration.
The project has two parts, the first is a comparative case study of psychosocial work and the second is a historical analysis of organisation theory, together building on a basic hypothesis that the classic theorising may be revitalized as a conceptual background on which present dilemmas of organising in welfare institutions may be understood.
Empirically, case material is collected in a hospital ontology department, a cancer recreation facility and an advice- and rehabilitation centre. It is furthermore supplemented by a previous case study from a large teaching hospital on cancer packages and core activities of professional emotion work therein.
Read more about it at Key deliveries and “soft relations”
Beside being coupled to the Public-Private Platform the project is part of the WMO? research cluster and also linked to the Center for Health Management.