conference programme

This year, the conference is making a conscious effort to be more sustainable. Printed copies of the programme will therefore not be available, we will however provide QR codes around the venue for quick access to the programme.

You can download a PDF copy of the programme here.

Follow the @SHOC_OBHC twitter page for updates on the programme.

Monday 12 September

09:30 - 15:00Pre-Conference Workshop
Lead: Cathy Pope, Charlotte Overton
Room: G03
14:00 - 15:00Conference Registration
15:00 - 15:30Refreshments
15:30 - 15:50Welcome: Opening Comments - Room: G03
16:00 - 17:30Session 1

1a. Collaboration - Room: G03
Chair: Lena Ansmann

23. Keeping up appearances? A relational account of reputation and accountability in the formation of NHS inter-organisational collaborations (30 mins)
Ross Millar, Justin Aunger, Russell Mannion 

11. People and culture: at the heart of the evolution of learning health systems (30 mins)
Carolynn L. Smith, Yvonne Zurynski, Genevieve Dammery, Isabelle Meulenbroeks, Gilbert Knaggs, Alex Vedovi; Meagan Warwick, Louise A. Ellis, Hossai Gul, Jeffrey Braithwaite

44. Unpacking the Concept of Integrated Care: A Process Perspective (30 mins)
Ninna Meier, Eleanor Murray 

1b. Voluntary and private sector - Room: G11
Chair: Gianluca Veronesi

51. “Not just suppliers of services” - Exploring third sector and health and care commissioning relationships in England (30 mins)
Mark Exworthy, Rod Sheaff, Becky Hardwick, Chris Smith, Angela Ellis Paine

60. The new robber barons: The impact of private equity on health system sustainability (30 mins)
Paula Hyde

10. Community volunteering to heal social wounds post-Covid 19: A responsible innovation perspective (30 mins)

Anna Galazka

1c. Care - Room: 103
Chair: Davina Allen


3. Caring Regions as a Trading Zone: Shaping Regional Older Person Care through Organizational Pilots, Policy Strategies and Social Science (30 mins)
Iris Wallenburg, Jitse Schuurmans, Roland Bal

7. Technology and homecare in the UK: Policy, story lines and practice (30 mins)
Kate Hamblin, Diane Burns and Cate Goodlad

41. PhotoVoice in Schwartz: Does the NHS Have an Organisational Silence Culture Around Employee Mental Health Problems and Absenteeism? (30 mins)
Sukhwinder (Essie) Kaur

CANCELLED - 50. Reconciling Multiple Logics of Care: Risk, flexibility and complexity in an integrated mental health programme (30 mins)
Damian Hodgson, Abigail Tazzyman; Kate Fryer 

18:00 - 19:30Welcome Drinks Reception
Lapworth Museum, University of Birmingham
In order to attend the drinks reception, please sign up here.

For suggestions of where to eat following the Welcome Drinks Reception, check out our About Birmingham page here.

Tuesday 13 September

08:00 - 08:45Conference Registration
Arrival tea and coffee will be available.
08:45 - 10:15Session 2

2a. Technology - Room: G03
Chair: Harry Scarbrough

6. Understanding the cultural environment of the outpatient care setting for patients with dementia receiving cancer treatment: a qualitative study (CP) (30 mins)
Naomi Farrington, Alison Richardson, Jackie Bridges 

1. Technology x Therapy: Telemental health management amidst a pandemic (30 mins)
 Gordon C Shen, Nnenna Mba-Oduwusi, Ana Cristina Ruiz, Sarah K Hernandez, Patenne Mathews, Lokesh R Shahani

24. Manifestations of digital epistemic coloniality on health platforms (30 mins)
Dimitra Petrakaki, Daniel Curto-Millet and Petros Chamakiotis

2b. Culture - Room: G11
Chair: Justin Aunger



5. How do we evolve the culture of Australia’s aged care system: A sociological analysis of a Royal Commission’s Final Report (30 mins)
Kate Churruca, Janet C. Long, Louise A. Ellis, Jeffrey Braithwaite

19. Virtualizing HR in healthcare during COVID: Insights from a study of surgical teams (30 mins)
Tracey Rosell and Martin Kitchener

2c. Managerial work - Room: 103
Chair: Roman Kislov

4. Dealing with pluralism: managerial work of CEOs in Italian public healthcare organizations (30 mins)
Federico Lega, Andrea Rotolo, Marco Sartirana

26. Good governance in times of crisis: a qualitative study of healthcare executives in the Netherlands (30 mins)
Relinde de Koeijer, Wilma van der Scheer

31. ‘Strong in the saddle’: the effect of social capital on CEO exit (30 mins)
X.Townend, I.Kirkpatrick, A.Altanlar, G.Veronesi
10:15 - 10:40Refreshments
10:40 - 12:10Session 3

3a. Professional identities and development - Room: G03
Chair: Simon Moralee


16. The strains of one for all and all for one: an ethnographic account of crafting new nursing roles in everyday nursing practice (30 mins)
Martin Felder, Syb Kuijper, Iris Wallenburg, Davina Allen and Roland Bal

36. Moral emotions in professional work: How novices transition from medical professional training to clinical practice (30 mins)
Stephanie Ewuzie,Gerry McGivern,Gerardo Patriotta,Daniel Mbuthia,Jacinta Nzinga,Mike English

48. The reality of essentiality: What turbulent times reveal about the necessity and value of essential work (30 mins)
Rachel Gifford, Daan Westra, Frank van de Baan, Dirk Ruwaard, Bram Fleuren

3b. Resilience - Room: G11
Chair: Gordon Shen

29. Resilience in the face of complexity: An examination of the characteristics of resilience in the implementation of a large-scale community-based mental health intervention (30 mins)
Louise Ellis, Yvonne Zurynski, Robyn Clay Williams, Janet Long, Mitchell Sarkies, Kate Churruca, Jeffrey Braithwaite

28. Resilient healthcare performance in the real world: revolutionary or evolutionary? (30 mins)
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kate Churruca, Robyn Clay-Williams, Louise A. Ellis, Elle Leask, Janet C. Long, Mitchell Sarkies, Yvonne Zurynski

5. The social infrastructure of organizational resilience in health care: a concept and its application (30 mins)
Holger Pfaff, Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Ute Karbach, Kira Hower

3c. Panel session - Room: 103
Chair: Mark Exworthy

12.A refined theory of the interplay between standardisation and individualisation of care: a realist evaluation and synthesis of on-the-day surgery cancellations (1h30)

Buddhika Samarasinghe
12:10 - 13:10Keynote: Justin Waring, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham

Chair: Diane Burns
13:10 - 13:55
Lunch
13:55 - 14:35SHOC Annual General Meeting
14:35 - 15:35Session 4

4a. Identity and boundary work- Room: G03
Chair: TBC


17. Walking the extra mile -but not too far! How care workers do front-line boundary work to establish and maintain interpersonal trust with clients with migration backgrounds (30 mins)
Hanna Carlsson and Ludo Glimmerveen

18. ‘They’re lost without us’: Precarious identity work of a low status occupational group to alter subordination (30 mins)
Marieke van Wieringen 

4b. Panel session - Room: G11
Chair: Eleanor Murray


49. Knowledge infrastructures in health care (1h)
Roland Bal, Lorelei Jones, Iris Wallenburg

4c. Evidence, policy and practice - Room: 103
Chair: Jonathan Hammond


8. Investigating the practices, processes and impacts of patient bed movements in a large district general hospital within the English NHS (30 mins)
Penelope Tuck, Alexander Tuck, Mark Exworthy

42. Development, feasibility, and proof of concept of an evidence-based intervention to measure and plan care trajectory management in the nursing workload: TRACT PACK (WP) (30 mins)
Davina Allen, Heather Strange; Alison Evans


15:35 - 16:00Refreshments
16:00  - 17:30Session 5

5a. New agendas for OBHC research - Room: G03
Chair: Roland Bal


2. Organisational behaviour in health care: a semi-detached home and an orphan? (30 mins)
Mark Exworthy, Russell Mannion 

37. Context and Temporality: How can we study impacts of dynamic contexts over time? (30 mins)
Sue Dopson and Ninna Meier

38. To what extent does Health Services Research in Germany engage with Organisational Behaviour Research? A scoping review based on an analysis of conference abstracts (30 mins)
Stefan Nöst, Felix Miedaner, Anke Wagner, Marina Beckmann, Mark Exworthy, Katja Götz, Mirjam Körner, Russell Mannion, Holger Pfaff, Alexandra Piotrowski, Antje Hammer, Lena Ansmann 

5b. Panel session - Room: G11
Chair: Justin Waring

40. The paradoxes of implementation: a need to reframe the purpose of implementation science? (1h30)
Gregory Maniatopoulos, Gemma Hughes, Paula Bradley, Jeffry Hogg, Jackie Walumbe, Sara Paparini, Sara Shaw

19:00Conference Dinner BBQ and Best Paper Awards
Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham
In order to attend the conference dinner, please sign up here.

Wednesday 14 September

08:15 - 08:45Conference Registration and Enquiries
Arrival tea and coffee will be available.
08:45 - 10:15Session 6

6a. Wellbeing in practice - Room: G03
Chair: Chris Smith

46. Interactions of doubt. Modes of reasoning in health professionals’ encounters with parents about childhood vaccines (30 mins)
Marie Henriette Madsen

55. A Research Agenda for Recovery Colleges as Alternative Organisations: organising the alternative within the mental health system (30 mins)
Simon Bishop, Gary Winship, Claire Henderson, Mike Slade et al. 

35. Human resource management in homecare: Managing people for safe care at the front-line of the pandemic (30 mins)
Thoai Le, Simon Bishop, Carl Macrae

6b. Theory - Room: G11
Chair: Gerry McGivern

54. Diagnostic layers or allocative categories? – The Case of Precision Medicine for Lung Cancer (30 mins)
Amalie Martinus Hauge

25. Understanding change in health systems using the Strategic Action Fields Framework: the availability and origin of Sources of Authority (30 mins)
Rasa Mikelyte, Jenny Billings, Anna Coleman, Julie MacInnes, Sarah Croke, Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland

30. Trading Capital: A Bourdieuisian analysis of recruitment practices for Health Care Support Workers within the NHS (30 mins)
Donna McLaughlin 

6c. Organisational change and learning - Room: 103
Chair: Lorelei Jones


13. Organisational readiness for the adoption of AI diagnostic tools in clinical workflows – a case study from the National Breast Screening Programme in the East Midlands of England (30 mins)
Niamh Lennox-Chhugani

33. Professions, continuing education, and COVID-19: An analysis of professional learning systems during healthcare reorganization (30 mins)

Paula Rowland, Brett Diaz; Madison Brydges 

20. Fixing the plane while flying: Formative evaluation feedback loops (FEFLs) to orchestrate revolutionary and evolutionary change in dynamic, complex healthcare systems (30 mins)
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kate Churruca, Louise A. Ellis, Janet C. Long, Mitchell Sarkies, Yvonne Zurynski, Robyn Clay-Williams 
10:15 - 10:45Refreshments
10:45 - 12:15Session 7

7a. Patients and public - Room: G03
Chair: Gemma Hughes

56. Tensions within the public encounter: Balancing individual and population health risks (30 mins)
Matthew McKenna, Nicola Gale

47. What do patients value in value-based healthcare? (30 mins)
Lorelei Jones, Chris Woods, Ellie Overs, Lynne Williams, Sion Williams, Chris Burton

53. Post-covid Supply Chain strategies for medical materials in North America (30 mins)
Carolina Belotti Pedroso; Martin Beaulieu; Eugene Schneller; Louise Knight

7b. Challenges and innovation - Room: G11
Chair: Hanna Carlsson

34. ‘We have more pilots than British Airways!’: The role of pilots in mobilizing evidence for the spread of innovations in the English NHS (30 mins)
Katie Rose M. Sanfilippo, Harry Scarbrough, Charitini Stavropoulou, Alexandra Ziemann

15. Can ‘ambidextrous regulation’ address problems with health systems regulation in low- and middle-income countries? Finding from a study of professional regulation for doctors and nurses in Kenya and Uganda (30 mins)
McGivern, G., Seruwagi, G., Wafula, F., Kiefer, T., Nakidde, C., Museiga, A., Ogira, D., Gill, M & English, M. 

59. Esping-Andersen’s Welfare Regime Theory (30 mins)
Hongyi Lin

7c. Leadership - Room: 103
Chair: Paula Hyde


52. Talking ‘up’, talking ‘down’ and talking ‘around’: discourses of medical leadership and their impact on professional practice and identity (30 mins)
Mark Exworthy, Simon Moralee, Katie Willocks

9. Identifying the key components of running a successful IBD medical home: a qualitative study comparing two IBD homes in the United States (30 mins)
Ksenia Gorbenko, Sydney Phlegar, Madhu Mazumdar, Eva Szigethy, Laurie Keefer

14. The Development of Leader Character for managers in Adult Social Care (30 mins)
Katie Willocks
12:20 - 13:20Keynote: Stella Manzie, chair, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

Chair: Mark Exworthy
13:20 - 14:05Lunch
14:05 - 15:35Session 8

8a. Panel session - Room: G03
Chair: Jackie Bridges


21. Heroes at the Bedside or Organizational Experts? A Panel Discussion on the Changing Role of Nurses in Healthcare (1h30)
Iris Wallenburg, Davina Allen, Martijn Felder, Roland Bal, Syb Kuijper, Helle Krone-Hjertstrøm, Aud Obstfelder, Charlotte Croft, Marieke van Wieringen, Charmaine Springer

8b. Workforce - Room: G11
Chair: Nicola Gale


39. Hospital retention measures in times of physician shortages - an analysis of job advertisements (30 mins)
Helge Schnack, Lubasch, Johanna; von Kutzleben, Milena; Uthoff, Sarah; Zinkevich, Anna; Specht, Sebastian; Pawel, Amelie; Ramsauer, Hannah; von dem Knesebeck, Olaf; Wirtz, Markus; Ansmann, Lena 

27. Health workforce planning in Australia: evolution or devolution? (30 mins)
Yvonne Zurynski, Genevieve Dammery, Carolyn Smith, Jeffrey Braithwaite

57. Identity work in healthcare organisations in Iran: a qualitative case study of middle managers (30 mins)
Maryam Zahmatkesh

8c. Covid - Room: 103
Chair: Ross Millar

58. Service User Involvement, Co-Production and Healthcare Quality Improvement: Addressing the case of epistemic (in)justice (30 mins)
Arbaz Kapadi 

43. The response of Primary Care Networks in England to the COVID-19 pandemic (WP) (30 mins)
Jonathon Hammond, Lynsey Warwick-Giles, Kath Checkland, Jonathon Hammond, Lynsey Warwick-Giles, Kath Checkland, Donna Bramwell, Simon Bailey 

22. Interaction-based Services and Virtual Work: Video Consultations in Primary Care During COVID-19 (30 mins)
Marilena Diel, Christian P. Kortkamp, Clarissa E. Weber

Contact us

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E: academic.conferences@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Further information and updates: www.shoc.org.uk and twitter: @SHOC_OBHC