Kirstine Zinck Pedersen

Presentation

My research attends to the organizational, practical, and ethical implications of recent transformations of the public sector - and in particular to the assumptions and constitutive effects of quality and safety reform programmes in the healthcare sector. I attained my PhD degree from Department of Organization (CBS) in 2013. The dissertation Failsafe Organizing? A Pragmatic Stance on Patient Safety is an inquiry into the international patient safety programme and its faith in the possibility of creating failsafe organizations through system-improvements. In my current research project (supported by the Danish Cancer Society) I investigate the introduction of clinical pathways in cancer treatment with specific attention to possible reconfigurations of clinical practice, medical reasoning, and the office of medicine. I have a background in Philosophy and Social Science from Roskilde University.

Primary research areas

Healthcare organization, clinical work, medical reasoning and the office of medicine

Risk management, safety technologies and quality programmes in the healthcare sector 

Public sector reform and change  

American pragmatism, primarily John Dewey 

Philosophy of science and qualitative methodology

Courses

Management of Reform and Change, Master of Public Governance, CBS Executive Master programme

Qualitative Methods and Philosophy of Science, BSc in Business Administration and Project Management, CBS

Qualitative Methods, BSc in Economics and Business Administration, CBS

Organizational Analysis, BSc in Economics and Business Administration, CBS