Contact
+45 21676424
Research area
Qualitative and Ethnographic Health Research
Qualitative research using interviews, participant observation, and ethnographic fieldwork to explore people’s experiences of health, illness, treatment, and prevention. My interdisciplinary background in nursing and anthropology combines clinical insight with anthropological perspectives on everyday life and health practices.
Patient and Everyday Life Perspectives
Focus on the perspectives of patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, and on how health, illness, and health interventions are experienced and integrated into everyday life. Particular attention is given to relationships between patients and healthcare professionals, including how communication, experiences, expectations, and organisational contexts shape these encounters.
Process Evaluation and Implementation of Complex Health Interventions
Theoretical and practical experience in the process evaluation of complex health interventions, with a focus on how interventions are developed, received, and implemented across different contexts. Qualitative approaches are used to explore the mechanisms and social, organisational, and contextual factors that influence implementation. Particular attention is given to how these factors shape the delivery of interventions and their potential effects. My experience also includes developing evaluation designs and facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration across research, clinical practice, and healthcare settings.
Chronic Disease, Prevention, and Health Promotion
Qualitative research within chronic disease and prevention, including diabetes, with a focus on illness, treatment, lifestyle changes, and everyday life. A key focus is how health interventions can be adapted to the needs, circumstances, and everyday lives of different target groups.
Current research
PRE-STORK
Qualitative process evaluation of PRE-STORK, a lifestyle intervention before and during pregnancy aimed at preventing childhood overweight. The research focuses on how women and their partners experience and engage with the intervention’s recommendations in their everyday lives, as well as how the intervention is implemented by the healthcare professionals delivering it. The process evaluation examines, among other things, the mechanisms and contextual factors that influence how the intervention is implemented and its potential effects.
Collaborators:
Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev Hospital, and University of Copenhagen