CARE PRACTICES RESEARCH NETWORK MEMBERS

Members of the Care Practices Research Network are a diverse group brought together through a shared interest in studying care practices.

We study care practices in and as part of daily life, as webs of relations constituting daily life, with the goal of making these visible, articulable on their own terms, and thus more open to improvement and change.

Our aim is to reinstitute a concern for care practices by taking such practices seriously – activity that requires both methodological tools and a theoretical vocabulary that allows us to keep everyday practices, their details and their effects, in view and available for study.

  • EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA
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    Christine Ceci is an associate professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. Her program of research includes empirical and theoretical work concerned with the organization of care practices for frail older people, currently focused on the situations of families in which one member has dementia. She is an co-author of Care at Home for People Living with Dementia: Delaying Institutionalization, Sustaining Families, Co-editor of Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People and Philosophy of Nursing: 5 Questions. She is also a founding member of the Care Practices Research Network.

  • GERMANY
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    Dr. Kohlen's research addresses the ethics of care in the context of health care practices and the distribution of care work in society. She is currently working as a co-director at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar (Koblenz) in Germany. Dr .Kohlen also teaches ethics and palliative care in the nursing faculty.

  • NORWAY
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    Dr. Thygesen is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at VID University of Science and the Department of Occupational Therapy and Orthopedics at OsloMet- Metropolitan University. Her research explores technologies and care practices for aging societies.

  • OSLO, NORWAY
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    Ingunn Moser is professor of sociology and of social studies of science, technology and medicine at VID Specialized University in Oslo, Norway. Her research is centred on relations between subjectivity, embodiment, materiality and different knowledge practices. These theoretical interests have been explored in empirical fields ranging from disability to care for the elderly and dementia care in particular.

  • AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
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    Jeannette Pols is a Professor Anthropology of Everyday Ethics at the department of Anthropology, Faculty of Behavioral & Social Sciences, and the department of Ethics, Law & Humanities of the Amsterdam Medical Center, University of Amsterdam.

    Jeanette’s research and teaching develop the ethnographic study of ethical questions. In comparative ethnographic analyses, her research provides insight into the practical and desirable ways in which technologies shape care and societies, and the repertoires of ‘being human’ that follow from these practices. The aim is to discover and develop normative directions in complex technological societies.

    Pols research runs along three main axes. She studies:

    • how ethical and aesthetic values are embedded in care practices;

    • the ways in which technologies help to shape actual positions of patients and caregivers, and how to evaluate these positions;

    • the practical knowledge of patients and carers.

  • ICELAND
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    Kristin Bjornsdottir is a Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Division of Health Sciences, University of Iceland. Kristin’s earlier work was historical and philosophical, exploring nursing practice from a critical feminist perspective. Her current research relates to the development of home care services in welfare states and the participation of relatives in assisting frail older people to live well at home. She has studied the development of home care nursing as practice and the ethics and politics of home care. Her recent work has been influenced by authors working within Science and Technology Studies who have contributed to the theorisation of practice and the relationship between knowledge and practice.

  • https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meiriele-Tavares-Araujo

    Meiriele is a RN in Alberta Canada and in Brazil. She has worked as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and has recently relocated to Canada. Her research focuses on nursing work and measurement processes for acuity in patient care.

  • VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
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    Mary Ellen Purkis holds a PhD from Edinburgh University. Over the course of her career, she has studied nursing practices, primarily within the context of home-based care. Recognizing early on that theories of active practice are largely missing in research accounts of nursing care, she has contributed methodological papers as well as papers on the substantive field of nursing practice in an effort to introduce language and theory that aims to give practices primacy in the study of nursing work. Mary Ellen has recently retired from her position as Professor in the School of Nursing at University of Victoria. She continues to puzzle through the relationships between language, theory and practice as these inform nursing practice.

  • EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA
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    Holly Symonds-Brown is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. Her research program is concerned with theoretical and empirical study of how difference is produced and lived in the ‘in betweens’ of care infrastructures. Her current work is on the mobilities of everyday life in public spaces for people living with dementia. Her work includes studies of care in the community for people living with dementia and their families, youth and family experiences of wait-lists for mental health care, and the political mobilization of caregivers.