Roman Abramov is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He specializes in the sociology of professions, educational policy, urban studies, the history of social sciences and memory studies.
Stephen Ackroyd is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University Management School, UK, Honorary Professor at Leicester Management Centre, UK, and Visiting Professor at Ostfold University, Norway. He has written or edited ten books, and, in addition to his work on the professions, he is also known for his research and writing on organizational misbehaviour, the organization of large companies in Britain and change in the public sector. His published works include standard works in the field of organizational behaviour, such as his The Organisation of Business (2002) and, written and edited with others, The Handbook of Work and Organisation (2005).
Tuba Agartan is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Providence College, Rhode Island, USA. Her research interests are at the interface of social policy and sociology, with a focus on comparative health policy, professions and health-care reform, global health and governance. She has published in several journals, including Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Social Science & Medicine and Current Sociology.
Swethaa Ballakrishnen is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Division of Social Sciences, New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her research broadly investigates globalization, organisational innovation and labour market stratification in emerging markets. In particular, she is interested in the ways in which global professional markets and their perceptions (both actual and assumed) orient and organize individual outcomes, interactions and institutions. In her NSF-funded doctoral dissertation, Ballakrishnen explored the case of elite law firms in India, which have been at the forefront of creating gender-friendly outcomes, oftentimes without intention or specific agency.
Cecilia Benoit received her PhD from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is currently a scientist at the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Apart from ongoing research focused on the occupation of midwifery and the organization of maternity care in Canada and internationally, Benoit is involved in a variety of projects that employ mixed methodologies to investigate the health of different vulnerable populations. Her work has appeared in several journals, including Health Psychology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness and Journal of Health Psychology.
Ingrid Biese is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Management and Organisation at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. For her PhD she studied women who opt out of successful careers to adopt new lifestyles, and she has recently started her postdoctoral research project on men who do the same. Ingrid regularly engages in public debates on issues pertaining to sustainable career models and new solutions for work, for example through her blog: theoptingoutblog.com.
Debby Bonnin is Associate Professor of Sociology and the Head of Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Witwatersrand. Her research is in the field of industrial and economic sociology, where current projects include interests in the sociology of professions, textile designers and the home furnishings sector of the textile industry as well as supply chains in the textile industry. She teaches in the area of the sociology of South Africa, globalization, and gender and work.
Alan Borthwick is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. His research has largely focused on the contemporary and historical sociology of the allied health professions in the UK and Australia, and in particular on the profession of podiatry. He is the UK editor-in-chief of the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, and holds several roles in the UK College of Podiatry.
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Chair in Gender, Work and Health Human Resources. She leads the pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Network with funding from Health Canada and the CIHR. She has been a consultant to various provincial ministries of health in Canada, to Health Canada and to the World Health Organization. Her recent research focuses on the migration of health professionals and their integration into the Canadian health-care system. Dr Bourgeault is the co-founder of the bilingual Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health.
Patrick Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research explores how organizations, groups and individuals handle uncertainty within health-care contexts. He is currently writing up a study on trust in the value-for-money regulation of medicines in England, with Mike Calnan. He has published widely on processes of trust, risk and hope in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Social Studies of Science and Sociology of Health & Illness. Recent books include Making Health Policy (2011) and Trusting on the Edge (2012).
Viola Burau is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Aarhus University in Denmark and Senior Researcher at CFK – Public Health and Quality Improvement, a research centre in the central Denmark region. Her research interests lie in the changing organization of welfare services, especially issues of governance and the multiple roles played by professions. She has published widely in Sociology of Health & Illness, Social Policy & Administration and BMC Health Services Research, among others, and recent publications focus on the complexities of care coordination and the contribution of health-care professionals to processes of organizational change.
Michael Calnan is a medical sociologist who is interested in the sociology of health, medicine and health policy, and has researched and published extensively on a wide range of health-related topics. His books include: Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas (2000), Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic (2002), Trust Matters in Health Care (2008), The New Sociology of the Health Service (2009) and Trusting on the Edge (2012). His current research interests include the study of trust relations in health systems, including comparative work in Australia and India, and the study of ageing and dignity in health care.
Teresa Carvalho is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She develops research in public reforms and has a special interest in issues related to the role of professionals in formulating and implementing public policies. She has been coordinator of the ESA network of the Sociology of Professions (RN19) since 2013. She has published research in new public management, the sociology of professions and academic careers, both in book chapters and in journals such as Higher Education Policy, International Journal of Public Administration and Journal of Professions and Organization. She is also co-editor of The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management (2010) and Professionalism, Managerialism and Reform in Higher Education and the Health Services (2015).
Marta Choroszewicz is a university lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus. She has taught courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, sociology of gender and the relationships between gender, work and migration. Her research interests include gender in the legal profession, gendering processes in organizations, gender and age in the professions, gender inequality and comparative research.
Jean-Louis Denis, PhD, is Full Professor at the École Nationale d’Administration Publique (ÉNAP) and holds the Canada research chair on governance and transformation of health-care organisations and systems at ÉNAP. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Management, King’s College London. He pursues research on governance and change process in health-care organizations and systems. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and, since December 2014, has been director of the Research Centre of Charles Lemoyne Hospital.
Mike Dent is Emeritus Professor, Staffordshire University and Visiting Professor at Leicester University in the UK. He continues to research and publish widely on the comparative study of the professions and management within health-care organizations, new public management, and health-care computing as well as user and citizen involvement in its various forms. His articles have appeared in a range of leading academic journals, including Public Administration, Organization, Organizational Studies and Sociology of Health & Illness. The recent research has been funded and enabled principally by the NIHR SDO and European COST.
Colin Haslam is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His research consolidates work undertaken on financialization into a unique ‘business model’ conceptual framework. This framework of analysis explores how contradictions embedded in stakeholder networks and interactions impact upon a reporting entity’s financial performance and viability. A recent text, Redefining Business Models: Strategies for a Financialized World (2013), consolidates this analytical approach.
Jeff Hearn is Guest Faculty Research Professor in the humanities and social sciences, based in Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden, and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK. He has also been Reader at the University of Bradford, Faculty Research Professor in the Social Sciences, Manchester University, UK, and Professor of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland. His most recent books include Rethinking Transnational Men, co-edited with Marina Blagojević and Katherine Harrison (2013), and Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times (2015).
C.R. (Bob) Hinings is Professor Emeritus in the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. He has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the US Academy of Management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the US Academy of Management, as well as an Honorary Member of the European Group for Organizational Studies.
Liisa Husu is a Finnish sociologist and gender expert, Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Centre for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University, Sweden, and Co-Director of the three-university GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. Her research interests focus on gender dynamics in science, academia and research policy, and women’s research careers. She has been actively engaged in several national and European research projects and actions related to gender processes and gender equality in science and research activities, facilitated eight European conferences on gender equality in higher education and is currently a partner in the EU FP7 project GenPORT.
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova is a Professor of Sociology at National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. She also works as an editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Social Policy Studies. Her research interests include the sociology of profession, gender, welfare policy, social work, disability studies, and qualitative and visual methodology.
Ian Kirkpatrick is Professor in Work and Organisation. His research focuses on the changing management of professional organizations across both public and private sectors. He has published widely in a range of leading academic journals, including Public Administration, Organization, British Journal of Management, Work, Employment & Society and Sociology of Health & Illness. Ian is also co-author of two recent books: The New Managerialism and Public Service Professions (2004) and Managing Residential Childcare (2005). He has been involved in a number of large research projects, including studies funded by the Department of Health, the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Science Foundation.
Mia von Knorring is senior researcher in medical management at the Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Her research focuses on how work in health-care organizations is organized and managed – formally and informally – and how this impacts on the role-taking of and interaction between managers and professionals, the work conditions of employees, quality of care and patient outcome. In 2014, she was awarded the Leadership Promotor of the Year prize by the Swedish Leadership Academy in Healthcare.
Anne Kovalainen is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, Finland. Anne is an economic sociologist by education; she has worked as Minna Canth Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland and as vice-chair of the Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland. She has held visiting professorships at Stanford University, London School of Economics, Roskilde University and University of Technology, Sydney. Her research interests include gender, economic sociology, entrepreneurship, critical studies, knowledge society, societal change and research methods.
Ellen Kuhlmann is currently a Senior Researcher at Goethe-University, Germany and associated to the Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden. She has previously held positions as interim professor in Germany and guest professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the President of Research Committee 52 ‘Professional Groups’ of the International Sociological Association. Recent publications include The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance (2015) and a Special Issue of Health Policy on ‘Health workforce governance in Europe’.
Kevin T. Leicht is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has written extensively on changes in the professions and white-collar occupations and the role that economic and political ideologies play in altering the content and evaluation of professional work. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Ford and Spencer Foundations. His most recent books focus on the economic decline of the US middle class.
Annick Lepage is a PhD candidate at École National d’Administration Publique (ÉNAP) in Montreal. Her research interests include professional dynamics, interprofessional collaboration and professionalism. Her doctoral research explores more specifically the relationship between the evolution of professionalism, new organizational imperatives and the related impact on the system of profession.
Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliated with the Higher Education Group at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where she teaches graduate courses in the health professions education stream. Drawing on critical social science theories, she studies the interface of discourse, governance and identity. Her research explores the effects of neoliberal politics and globalization discourses on higher education and professional education.
Sølvi Mausethagen is an Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research interests involve teacher work and professionalism, educational governance and accountability. She is currently leading a research project on practices of data use in Norwegian municipalities and schools.
Ruth McDonald is Professor of Health Science Research and Policy at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research concerns organizational change and professional behaviours in health settings. Much of this in recent years has focused on financial incentives to change professional behaviour in the UK and beyond, and she has published widely on the subject. Prior to entering academia, Ruth was a finance director in the UK National Health Service.
Linda Muzzin is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Higher Education Group at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, where she teaches graduate courses on faculty in colleges and universities, professions and education, social theory and research methods. Her recent research and writing focuses on equity for contingent faculty, the effects of neoliberalism on professional faculty and faculty in Aboriginal-oriented northern colleges.
Susan Nancarrow is Professor of Health Sciences and health services researcher at Southern Cross University in Australia. Her primary research interests explore the ways that health workforce dynamics can be used to enhance health-care efficiency. She has a background in allied health service delivery and management and has worked in Australia and England.
Elena Neiterman is a lecturer at the School of Public Health and Health Systems. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology of McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include health policy analysis, health human resources, work retention, and migration and integration of internationally educated health-care professionals.
Seppo Poutanen is Senior Researcher and Docent of Sociology at the School of Economics in the University of Turku, Finland. Seppo is trained both in philosophy and sociology, and his areas of expertise include social epistemology, social theory, sociology of science, methodology of social sciences and economic sociology. Seppo has acted as Visiting Fellow in several universities internationally (e.g. Stanford University, London School of Economics, University of Essex, and the University of Technology Sydney, Business School), and one of his current research projects, with Professor Anne Kovalainen, focuses on the rise of the entrepreneurial university.
Shaun Ruggunan is a senior lecturer in Human Resources Management at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His PhD in industrial organizational and labour studies examined the transformation of global labour markets for seafarers. Shaun has published on seafaring labour markets and professional milieus of medical specialist doctors. He teaches in research methodology, critical management studies and human resources management.
Michael I. Reed is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Analysis, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK. He has published widely in major international journals, such as Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Research in the Sociology of Organizations, on his major research interests encompassing the study of organizational elites, new organizational control regimes and changing forms of expert/professional labour. He is a founding editor of the journal Organization.
Mike Saks is Research Professor in Health Policy at University Campus Suffolk, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published over a dozen books with top publishers on professions, health care and research methods.
Rui Santiago is Associated Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, senior researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES) and Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences. His main research interests are public reforms, higher education governance and management and the academic profession. He has published diverse book chapters and articles in journals such as Higher Education, Minerva, Higher Education Quarterly, Higher Education Policy and Análise Social. He is also co-editor of The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management (2010), Non-University Higher Education in Europe (2008) and Professionalism, Managerialism and Reform in Higher Education and the Health Services (2015).
Christiane Schnell is a researcher at the Institute of Social Research at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt in Germany. Her research is situated in the field of sociology of work and professions. She has worked in particular on the empirical analysis and theoretical interpretation of the field of cultural work, the financial sector and the pharmaceutical industries. Since 2013, Dr Schnell has been chair of the section of Sociology of Professions in the German Sociology Association and Co-coordinator of the Research Network Sociology of Professions in the European Sociology Association.
Jens-Christian Smeby is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Professions at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. His research interests include professional learning in education and work and the nature of professional knowledge and expertise. He is the editor of Professions and Professionalism and co-editor of From Vocational to Professional Education (Routledge 2015). He has published in Journal of Education and Work, Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education and Research Policy, among others.
Crawford Spence seeks to understand the work of financial professionals – accountants, analysts, fund managers – from a sociological perspective. His most recent work is centred on the globalization of professional service firms, with a particular focus on their expansion in Asia. Other research interests include corporate social responsibility, business history and the sociology of calculation.
Evelien Tonkens, sociologist, is Full Professor of Citizenship and Humanization of the Public Sector at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Before that, she was professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam and Member of the Dutch Parliament for the Green Left. Her research interests include changing ideals and practices of citizenship, professionalism and publicness.
Nicolette van Gestel is Professor of New Modes of Governance at TIAS School for Business & Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research interests include public management reform in social security, employment services and health care. She has published books and chapters as well as articles in journals, including Public Administration, Public Money & Management, Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, Personnel Review, European Journal of Industrial Relations and European Journal of Social Work. Since 2007 she has co-chaired the EGOS Standing Working Group ‘Organizing the Public Sector: Public Governance and Management’.
Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. Previous to this, he was Director of the Institute for Social Inclusion and Well-being, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and Professorial Research Fellow at University of Sussex, UK. Webb’s critical analysis ‘Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work’ (2001) is the world’s most cited article in the field and is the most influential recent publication in social work.
Sirpa Wrede is Professor of Ethnic Relations and the Director of CEREN, the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism at the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on the impact of globalization on professional work as well as on ethnic relations in working life. Her research areas include welfare-state restructuring, especially from the point of view of the rapid increase of immigration to Finland. She is an internationally recognized expert on professional occupations and has led several Academy of Finland projects on care-work occupations and on the incorporation of migrant workers in care work and in Finnish working life in general. Currently, she serves as the President of the Nordic Sociological Association.