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Ninna Meier is a qualitative researcher who studies organising, change and leadership & management in public organisations. She has conducted research in public sector healthcare organisations since 2009, where she has studied clinical managerial work, coherency across boundaries, the role of space, materiality and relational aspects of work and leadership.
Through her collaboration with Sue Dopson at Oxford University, she has developed a framework for operationalising and studying the important role of context and its relationship to actions and change:
Ninna Meier and Sue Dopson (eds.) 2019: Context in Action and How to Study It. Illustrations from Health Care. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/context-in-action-and-how-to-study-it-9780198805304?lang=en&cc=ee
Ninna Meier & Sue Dopson (2021): What is context? Methodological reflections on the relationship between context, actors, and change. In Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts. (2021). Edited by Roman Kislov, Diane Burns, Bjorn Erik Mork & Kathleen Montgomery. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Since 2019, she has been affiliated as a senior researcher at the Center for Clinical Research at Amager-Hvidovre Hospital, where she works on clinical decision-making and patient safety from an interdisciplinary approach. Moreover, with Kasper Trolle Elmholdt, she currently works on the use of AI technology in emergency medicine services.
Another important theme in Ninna’s research focuses on the significance of relationships for complex organisational change processes and the ways in which different methods can be used to support such processes (see Hajjar, Gittell, Meier, & Gunn 2024 or Meier & Ingerslev 2023). Ninna has also conducted longitudional, ethnographic comparative research into how organisational coherence can be developed across geography, organization, profession, and disciplines, particularly exploring the leadership and coordination practices needed to maintain such structures and relationships over time. With Janne Seemann, Ninna has expanded this work in a project investigating integrative mechanisms in cross-sectoral patient pathways.
Lastly, Ninna publishes on and teaches academic writing as a craft. With Charlotte Wegener and Caitlin McMullin she carries out several PhD courses on academic writing each year (A Writer’s Life + Writing the PhD Dissertation: Structure, Quality and Contribution). Ninna has also given workshops and seminars, e.g. at The Ethnography Atelier https://www.ethnographyatelier.org/workshops and through her affiliation at the Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences research group (IRIHS) at Oxford University. With Trish Greenhalgh, Gemma Hughes, and Chrysanthi Papoutsi she has written about the particular challenges that interdisciplinary early career researchers may face when they write across social science and medicine – specifically what can be done to develop and support an interdisciplinary academic environment (Meier, Greenhalgh, Hughes & Papoutsi 2024).
External positions
Senior researcher, Klinisk Forskningscenter, Københavns Universitetshospital, Hvidovre
15 Feb 2019 → 1 Jan 2025
Associate Scholar, University of Oxford
1 Dec 2015 → 31 Oct 2025
Visiting Scholar at The Relational Coordination Research Collaborative, Brandeis University
Jan 2014 → Jul 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, Copenhagen Business School
31 Mar 2013 → 31 Aug 2016
Projektleder, KORA (Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research)
1 Nov 2012 → 14 Oct 2016
PhD student, Aarhus University
1 Feb 2009 → 31 Oct 2012
Keywords
- Management and Organization
- Sociology and Social Conditions
- Public administration and organisation
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Collaborations from the last five years
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RESPONSIVE: RESPONSIVE - Increasing Responsiveness to Citizen Voice in Social Services Across Europe
Uggerhøj, L., Andersen, M. L. L., Müller, M., Rømer, M., Meier, N., Schultz, T., Vangsgaard, P. B., Hammershøi, V. & Andersen, M. B.
01/03/2023 → 28/02/2026
Project: Research
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Patientoplevelser i et longitudinalt perspektiv
Seemann, J. E., Meier, N., Møller, M. Ø. & Gram, J. K. B.
01/05/2017 → …
Project: Research
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Kunstig Intelligens i 112 opkald - professionelle beslutninger i samspil med teknologi
01/06/2021 → 30/06/2022
Project: Research
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Tværgående modelprojekter i Region Hovedstaden
Seemann, J. E., Meier, N., Pedersen, A. L. & Gram, J. K. B.
01/07/2017 → 30/06/2020
Project: Research
Research output
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Breaking Down Silos to Build Collaborative Systems
Hajjar, L., Gittell, J. H., Meier, N. & Gunn, W., Mar 2024, The Heller School Social Impact Case Collection: Reimagining Capitalism through Case-Based Learning. Carlson, C., Kriegsman, M. & Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. (eds.). Brandeis University Press, p. 166-175 10 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Education › peer-review
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Bringing Organizing (Back) in: How and why organizing matters for boundary work?
Topholm, E. H-E. & Meier, N., 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research › peer-review
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Key issues in management and leadership of interorganisational coordination
Meier, N., 15 Feb 2024, Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care. McDermott, A. M., Hyde, P., Avgar, A. C. & FitzGerald, L. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 420-435 16 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Relational Coordination and Relational Systems: how teams navigate transformation and crisis in UK General Practice, a multi-method qualitative case study analysis
Dakin, F., Greenhalgh, T. & Meier, N., 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research › peer-review
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Risk as Learning Potential in Technologically Mediated Collaborative Work
Wentzer, H. S. & Meier, N., 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Writing the PhD Dissertation: Structure, Quality and Contribution
Ninna Meier (Organizer) & Caitlin McMullin (Organizer)
9 Apr 2024 → 11 Apr 2024Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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14th Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare Conference
Ninna Meier (Participant)
3 Apr 2024 → 5 Apr 2024Activity: Attending an event › Conference organisation or participation
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Skriv Afhandlingens Kappe: Struktur, kvalitetskriterier og bidrag
Ninna Meier (Organizer) & Caitlin McMullin (Organizer)
30 Jan 2024 → 1 Feb 2024Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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Writing the PhD Dissertation: Structure, Quality, and Contribution
Ninna Meier (Organizer) & Caitlin McMullin (Organizer)
8 Nov 2023 → 10 Nov 2023Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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Workshop om projektledelse
Ninna Meier (Speaker)
28 Sept 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
Press/Media
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Scientists want commission to investigate research freedom
Afshin Samani, Anders Horsbøl, Andres Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Anette Borchorst, Anja Marie Bundgaard, Ann-Dorte Pedholt Christensen, Antonia Lina Krummheuer, Arne Remmen, Bengt Åke Bertil Lundvall, Birte Siim, Bo Weidema, Caroline Samson, Christian Ydesen, Finn Arler, Harry Lahrmann, Henning Sten Hansen, Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Ida Maria Bonnevie, Inge Røpke, Janne Emily Seemann, Kristian Borch, Lars Bodum, Lars Domino Østergaard, Lars Skov Henriksen, Lone Kørnøv, Malene Charlotte Larsen, Martin Mølholm, Massimo Pizzol, Mathias Vedsø Kristiansen, Michael Søgaard Jørgensen, Mira C. Skadegård, Mogens Ove Madsen, Morten Ejrnæs, Ninna Meier, Palle Rasmussen, Pascal Max Madeleine, Paul Bruce McIlvenny, Pauline Stoltz, Per Richard Hansen, Peter Karnøe, Pia Ringø, Pirkko Liisa Raudaskoski, Rasmus Grøn, Stig Hirsbak, Stine Thidemann Faber & Svend Brinkmann
13/06/2022
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