
Comparative services research
Comparative Services Research (Sammenlignende Tjenesteforsk) is a multi-disciplinary research group carrying out research on public welfare services from a comparative perspective.
Our main focus is on municipal primary care services. We also engage in dynamics running across welfare sectors, services, levels, municipalities, and national borders.
The focal point is the diversity/complexity, conditions, content and contexts of public primary care services - including relations between service systems and care logics; relations between local and central authorities; institutional dynamics and regulations; policy and discourse analysis; services staff, users and the civil society.
The group is based at Center for Care Research West (CCR west), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), and we arrange regular seminars discussing research projects, thematic literature and work in progress.
Themes and ways of working
Our research group conducts research on a range of thematic areas and we initiate and develop career plans for younger researchers. Examples of research themes are: service collaboration and coordination, social and cultural diversity in the primary care workforce, social differentiation, municipal prioritization and dilemmas, and variation within and between services. We apply a span of methods and theoretical perspectives.
Ongoing projects, the Research Council of Norway
- The 'politics' of a changing institutional ecology: coordinating and prioritizing healthcare and welfare services in the municipal landscape (WELCARE), 2019-2024
- Multicultural workforce in Nursing Homes: Contemporary challenges, opportunities and potentials for the future in the Norwegian municipal care sector (MultiCare), 2016-2020
- Prioritizing care: Perspectives and consequences for service development (PriCare), 2017-2021. Ledes av SOF Øst/NTNU
- Sjef i eget liv (RFF Vest prosjekt) 2016-2019. Ledes av SINTEF
- A European PRImary care Multi-prOfessional Researcher network (PRIMORE), 2018-2021
- Creating integrated person-centered care in different settings (CONTEXT). Ledes av OsloMet. 2018-2021
PhD and postdoc-projects
- New models for allocating long-term care services: experiences, outcomes, and developments (Ph.d.-prosjekt)
- Omsorgsarbeid i innovasjonens tidsalder: "Morgendagens eldreomsorg" og dagens realiteter innen kommunal helse- og omsorgssektor i Norge (PhD-prosjekt), Roar Hansen, HVL stipendiat, 2016-2020
- Familiens omsorgsarbeid for eldre slektninger. Ansvarsdeling og samarbeid med offentlige tjenester (PhD-prosjekt), Oddrun Sortland, NFR, 2014-2019
- Improving leadership of multicultural staff: an implementation study (postdoc), Gudmund Ågotnes, NFR MultiCare, 2017-2020
- The role of cultural consciousness and knowledge development in managing multicultural staff in Norwegian Nursing Homes (PhD prosjekt), Patience Kawamala, HVL stipendiat MultiCare, 2017-2020
- Prioritizing principles and dilemmas in home based care for frail elderly people (postdoc), Astrid Sundsbø, NFR PriCare, 2018-2020
- Testing out and implementing communication technology for home-dwelling persons living with dementia (postdoc). Live@Home.Path, NFR SEFAS (UiB), 2019 - 2022
Selection of other ongoing projects
- Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices. Internasjonalt komparativt prosjekt mellom sju land ledet av York University, Toronto, Canada, finansiert av SSHRC, Kanadisk forskningsråd (2010-2019)
- Imagining Age-Friendly «Communities within Communities: International Promising Practices. Internasjonalt komparativt prosjekt, seks land ledet av York University, Toronto, Canada. Finansiert av SSHRC, Kanadisk forskningsråd (2018-2025)
- Implementering og kunnskapsintegrering i praksis – EISEN (European Implementation Science and Education Network). ERASMUS+
- Trygghetsstandard i sykehjem, følgeforskning fase II, (Helsedirektoratet) 2019-2020
- Fremskaffe kunnskap om variasjon/uønsket variasjon i kvalitet i omsorgstjenestene (Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet) 2019
- Tilrettelegging og formidling av eksisterende kunnskap om satsingsområder for reformen Leve hele livet (Helsedirektoratet 2019-2021)
- Omsorgsbiblioteket.no: Nasjonalt dokumentasjonssenter for forsknings- og utviklingsarbeid i helse- og omsorgssektoren (Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet)
- MEDVIRK – DEM; brukermedvirkning i utforming av kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester til personer med demens og deres pårørende (Vaksdal-prosjektet)
Participation in the PhD programmes «Health, function and participation» and «Responsible innovation and regional development»
- Philosophy of Science and ethics, 5 ECT. Anette Fagertun, course lead. Lecturers: Frode F. Jacobsen, Christine Øye.
- Contextual conditions, 5 ECT. Christine Øye, course lead. Lecturers: Anette Fagertun, Frode F. Jacobsen, Oddvar Førland.
- Health, Functioning, Participation (core subject), 5 ECT. Tobba T. Sudmann, course lead. Lecturers: Christine Øye, Anette Fagertun.
- Committee member for admission to the phd programme «Health, function and participation», Oddvar Førland.
- Social innovation, 5 ECT. Frode F. Jacobsen, course lead. Lectures: Anette Fagertun, Christine Øye, Oddvar Førland.
Head of Research Group
Members
- Mariya Stoyanova Bikova
- Christine Øye
- Jeanne Helene Boge
- Oscar Tranvåg
- Rolf Horne
- Britt Viola Danielsen
- Graziella Van den Bergh
- Terje Årsvoll Olsen
- Elin Høyvik
- Kjersti Tandberg
- Nathalie Puaschitz
- Gudmund Ågotnes
- Oddrunn Sortland
- Tone Elin Mekki
- Tobba Therkildsen Sudmann
- Yngvild Brandser Alvsåker
- Mai Camilla Munkejord
- Malcolm Doupe
- Maria Nordheim Alme
- Astrid Ouahyb Sundsbø
- Anne Lise Økland
PhD Candidates
Norwegian partners
International partners