Context in Action and How to Study It: Illustrations from Health Care

Ninna Meier is Associate Professor in Organizational Sociology at Aalbord University. She researches organization, leadership, and management of healthcare work with qualitative methods, and is currently working on a multi-level process study of integrative conditions and mechanisms in five cross-sectoral collaboration processes concerning citizens, whose needs call for services across hospital, GP, and municipality services. She is also a co-founder of The OpenWriting Community, where she experiments with and writes about the role of academic writing in researcher-practitioner collaborations and impact beyond academia.Sue Dopson is The Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Saïd Business School and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Her research centres on transformational change and knowledge exchange in the public and healthcare sectors. She has written and edited many major works on this topic and her research has informed and influenced government bodies such as the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in theirthinking on areas such as the dissemination of clinical evidence into practice, medical leadership, and the role of the support worker in the NHS. She formerly worked as a personnel manager in the NHS before pursuing a research and academic career, and currently represents the University of Oxford asNon-Executive Director of the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.