Michael Leslie
Biographic Data
| ID | 187635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Leslie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Leslie |
| SIGNATURE | LESLIE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5759-7993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A qualitative analysis of experiences of administrative burden in primary care
Purpose To examine the experiences of professionals working in primary care settings to understand how administrative work is perceived as a burden, considering both professional roles and current practice realities. Methods A secondary reflexive thematic analysis was conducted to understand challenges with administrative workload in primary care. We used data from thirty-six interviews with family physicians, nurse practitioners and administrati…
When innovations fail to travel
Equipping Change Agents
Family caregivers provide most daily care for people living with chronic illness or frailty, yet they remain under-recognized in health and social care systems. To address this gap, we co-designed the Caregiver-Centered Care Champions Education Program, which equips frontline providers with the competencies needed to lead caregiver-inclusive change. Guided by the Kirkpatrick-Barr Health Workforce Education Framework, we conducted a mixed methods …
Exploring meanings of expert and expertise in patient engagement activities
In this paper, we engage with claims of expert identities within the field of patient engagement. We do so through analysis of a subset of data collected as part of a 2020 pan-Canadian survey of patient partners. Our analysis is based on 446 qualitative responses to one target question: “Do you think the lived experience you bring to your patient partner role makes you an expert? Please explain in the box below”. Most respondents answered “yes” (…
Doing Meso-Level Integration
Introduction: In alignment with the conference’s first theme, this paper draws on qualitative research to address issues of change management implementation at the meso-level in integration. It uses a case study of integration efforts as they played out during the first wave of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in Alberta, Canada to identify practical ways of doing organization-to-organization integration in Primary Care (PC). Background: While the ex…
The impact of Covid‐19 on patient engagement in the health system
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on all aspects of the health system. Little is known about how the activities and experiences of patient, family and caregiver partners, as a large group across a variety of settings within the health system, changed due to the substantial health system shifts catalysed by the pandemic. This paper reports on the results of a survey that included questions about this topic. METHODS: Canadian pa…
Knowledge Gaps in the Understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance in Canada
Current limitations in the understanding and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Canada are described through a comprehensive review focusing on: (1) treatment optimization; (2) surveillance of antimicrobial use and AMR; and (3) prevention of transmission of AMR. Without addressing gaps in identified areas, sustained progress in AMR mitigation is unlikely. Expert opinions and perspectives contributed to prioritizing identified gaps. Usin…
Integrating the social sciences into the Covid-19 response in Alberta, Canada
This paper outlines the rapid integration of social scientists into a Canadian province’s COVID-19 response. We describe the motivating theory, deployment and initial outcomes of our team of Organisational Sociologist ethnographers, Human Factors experts and Infection Prevention and Control clinicians focused on understanding and improving Alberta’s responsiveness to the pandemic. Specifically, that interdisciplinary team is working alongside acu…
Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care
Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnog…
Towards sustainable family care
Technology has been identified as an important strategy in making caring sustainable. This article takes the design process for carer support technology as a lens on the divergent definitions that are in play when governments, technology developers and carers contemplate ‘sustainability’. We argue that a central impediment to finding a productive point of overlap among the three perspectives is a predominant focus on carers’ needs. We contrast th…
Communications and Democratization in Africa
There is a rapidly growing literature on democratization in Africa but very little of it deals with the role that communications, or the media, play. This is all the more surprising given that social movements and other voluntary associations, that have played a significant role in democratizing countries in regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe, have been quite weak in African countries. Therefore, our assumption is that media have be…
The Internet and Democratization
The second wave of democratization in Africa has coincided with the development and spread of new information technology, notably the use of computers for communications purposes ( Bourgault 1995 :206-208). Donor agencies and private foundations have assisted in providing new facilities as have transnational telecommunications corporations competing for influence and control of the African market. This chapter will examine both the opportunities …
Media and Democracy in Africa
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the role of the media in political change in sub-Saharan Africa. The central argument of the volume is th
A qualitative study of speaking out about patient safety concerns in intensive care units
Much policy focus has been afforded to the role of "whistleblowers" in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 h of ethnographic observation and 98 interviews across 19 English intensive care…
“Without Design, or Fate, or Force”
I can't put that on paper.’ How medical professional values shape the content of death certificates
This paper follows collegiality, demonstrating how, as a central value of medically trained coroners, it can shape the content of death investigations and certificates. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from a 16-month-long study of the Office of the Chief Coroner (OCC) of Ontario, Canada, I argue that collegiality is an instrument of trust that both affords investigators tremendous access to information, and severely limits the flow of that infor…
Chinese English Learners’ Strategic Competence
Protecting the living
This paper demonstrates how general trends in the management of public institutions, and a specific turf war between the doctors and lawyers in O ntario, C anada, have combined to shape an important risk regulatory decisionmaking process: the coroner's inquest. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, I show how the priorities of managerialism, and the collateral effects of physician coroners battling with lawyers, have reduced the number of public inqu…
Between surveillance and subjectification
Quality Assured Science
This article takes as its point of departure the idea that the adoption of managerial principles to ensure the quality of DNA evidence is an accident of history which has changed the ways forensic biology is conducted and forensic biologists think. I begin by defining managerialism and tracking its entry into the contentious world of forensic biology, asking how it is that a focus on efficiency and precise process control is affecting these labs.…
The architecture of risk management
Power's book examines how organizations are designed through risk-based science, law and managerial techniques. As organizations have come to think of, reform and govern themselves through the vague but powerful notion of risk, both the fortunes of the managers who conceive of these designs and the behaviour of the organizations themselves have been affected. Power develops four themes as he analyses the consequences of these moves towards risk m…
Fear and Coughing in Toronto
The 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto offers an opportunity to study the ways risk has come to form a rhetorical basis for public discussions of morality in contemporary Canadian society. This paper combines Ewald’s precautionary description of risk functionality with Douglas’ pollution theories to analyze quantitative and qualitative data taken from a print media content analysis. Precautionary conceptions are pre-eminent at the outset of the story,…
Media and Democracy in Africa
Göran Hydén, Michael Leslie and Folu F. Ogundimu (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (paperback 240 kr, €24.00, £16.95, ISBN 91 7106 495 8); New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers (paperback US39.95, ISBN 0 76 580148 5). 2002, 260 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
Gardens in Europe and America
The Tessera of Antilia
Media and Democracy in Africa
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the role of the media in political change in sub-Saharan Africa. The central argument of the volume is th
Between surveillance and subjectification
Media and Democracy in Africa
Göran Hydén, Michael Leslie and Folu F. Ogundimu (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (paperback 240 kr, €24.00, £16.95, ISBN 91 7106 495 8); New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers (paperback US39.95, ISBN 0 76 580148 5). 2002, 260 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
A qualitative study of speaking out about patient safety concerns in intensive care units
Much policy focus has been afforded to the role of "whistleblowers" in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 h of ethnographic observation and 98 interviews across 19 English intensive care…
Quality Assured Science
This article takes as its point of departure the idea that the adoption of managerial principles to ensure the quality of DNA evidence is an accident of history which has changed the ways forensic biology is conducted and forensic biologists think. I begin by defining managerialism and tracking its entry into the contentious world of forensic biology, asking how it is that a focus on efficiency and precise process control is affecting these labs.…
The architecture of risk management
Power's book examines how organizations are designed through risk-based science, law and managerial techniques. As organizations have come to think of, reform and govern themselves through the vague but powerful notion of risk, both the fortunes of the managers who conceive of these designs and the behaviour of the organizations themselves have been affected. Power develops four themes as he analyses the consequences of these moves towards risk m…
Television and capitalist hegemony in the “new” South Africa
This article critically explores how the restructuring of the South African television industry has resulted in new television images of blacks, while reinforcing the institutional and ideological hegemony of capitalism in South African television and society
I can't put that on paper.’ How medical professional values shape the content of death certificates
This paper follows collegiality, demonstrating how, as a central value of medically trained coroners, it can shape the content of death investigations and certificates. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from a 16-month-long study of the Office of the Chief Coroner (OCC) of Ontario, Canada, I argue that collegiality is an instrument of trust that both affords investigators tremendous access to information, and severely limits the flow of that infor…
Chinese English Learners’ Strategic Competence
Protecting the living
This paper demonstrates how general trends in the management of public institutions, and a specific turf war between the doctors and lawyers in O ntario, C anada, have combined to shape an important risk regulatory decisionmaking process: the coroner's inquest. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, I show how the priorities of managerialism, and the collateral effects of physician coroners battling with lawyers, have reduced the number of public inqu…
Spenser, Sidney, and the Renaissance Garden
Bitter Monuments
(1994). BITTER MONUMENTS: Afrikaners and the New South Africa. The Black Scholar: Vol. 24, Mandela for President, pp. 33-39
Slow Fade to?
This research investigated the changing image of blacks in advertisements in Ebony magazine from late 1950 to late 1980. Content analysis of paired samples from three decades revealed significant differences in the mix of products advertised as well as in the aesthetic qualities of models used in the ads. This research also found that while the Black Revolt of the 1960s “blackened” Ebony's ads, the fair-skinned, Eurocentric model had begun to rea…
Television and capitalist hegemony in the “new” South Africa
This article critically explores how the restructuring of the South African television industry has resulted in new television images of blacks, while reinforcing the institutional and ideological hegemony of capitalism in South African television and society
U.S. and South African Images of Black Success
The authors compare and contrast two editions of Ebony Magazine, one printed in the United States and another in South Africa
Gardens in Europe and America
The Tessera of Antilia
Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France
Mirka Beneš and Dianne Harris, eds. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France. (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 428 pp. + 167 b/w illus. index. $90. ISBN: 0-521-78225-2. - Volume 56 Issue 3
Media and Democracy in Africa
Göran Hydén, Michael Leslie and Folu F. Ogundimu (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (paperback 240 kr, €24.00, £16.95, ISBN 91 7106 495 8); New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers (paperback US39.95, ISBN 0 76 580148 5). 2002, 260 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
Fear and Coughing in Toronto
The 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto offers an opportunity to study the ways risk has come to form a rhetorical basis for public discussions of morality in contemporary Canadian society. This paper combines Ewald’s precautionary description of risk functionality with Douglas’ pollution theories to analyze quantitative and qualitative data taken from a print media content analysis. Precautionary conceptions are pre-eminent at the outset of the story,…
The architecture of risk management
Power's book examines how organizations are designed through risk-based science, law and managerial techniques. As organizations have come to think of, reform and govern themselves through the vague but powerful notion of risk, both the fortunes of the managers who conceive of these designs and the behaviour of the organizations themselves have been affected. Power develops four themes as he analyses the consequences of these moves towards risk m…
Quality Assured Science
This article takes as its point of departure the idea that the adoption of managerial principles to ensure the quality of DNA evidence is an accident of history which has changed the ways forensic biology is conducted and forensic biologists think. I begin by defining managerialism and tracking its entry into the contentious world of forensic biology, asking how it is that a focus on efficiency and precise process control is affecting these labs.…
Protecting the living
This paper demonstrates how general trends in the management of public institutions, and a specific turf war between the doctors and lawyers in O ntario, C anada, have combined to shape an important risk regulatory decisionmaking process: the coroner's inquest. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, I show how the priorities of managerialism, and the collateral effects of physician coroners battling with lawyers, have reduced the number of public inqu…
Between surveillance and subjectification
Chinese English Learners’ Strategic Competence
“Without Design, or Fate, or Force”
I can't put that on paper.’ How medical professional values shape the content of death certificates
This paper follows collegiality, demonstrating how, as a central value of medically trained coroners, it can shape the content of death investigations and certificates. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from a 16-month-long study of the Office of the Chief Coroner (OCC) of Ontario, Canada, I argue that collegiality is an instrument of trust that both affords investigators tremendous access to information, and severely limits the flow of that infor…
Communications and Democratization in Africa
There is a rapidly growing literature on democratization in Africa but very little of it deals with the role that communications, or the media, play. This is all the more surprising given that social movements and other voluntary associations, that have played a significant role in democratizing countries in regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe, have been quite weak in African countries. Therefore, our assumption is that media have be…
The Internet and Democratization
The second wave of democratization in Africa has coincided with the development and spread of new information technology, notably the use of computers for communications purposes ( Bourgault 1995 :206-208). Donor agencies and private foundations have assisted in providing new facilities as have transnational telecommunications corporations competing for influence and control of the African market. This chapter will examine both the opportunities …
Media and Democracy in Africa
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the role of the media in political change in sub-Saharan Africa. The central argument of the volume is th
A qualitative study of speaking out about patient safety concerns in intensive care units
Much policy focus has been afforded to the role of "whistleblowers" in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 h of ethnographic observation and 98 interviews across 19 English intensive care…
Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care
Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnog…
Towards sustainable family care
Technology has been identified as an important strategy in making caring sustainable. This article takes the design process for carer support technology as a lens on the divergent definitions that are in play when governments, technology developers and carers contemplate ‘sustainability’. We argue that a central impediment to finding a productive point of overlap among the three perspectives is a predominant focus on carers’ needs. We contrast th…
Integrating the social sciences into the Covid-19 response in Alberta, Canada
This paper outlines the rapid integration of social scientists into a Canadian province’s COVID-19 response. We describe the motivating theory, deployment and initial outcomes of our team of Organisational Sociologist ethnographers, Human Factors experts and Infection Prevention and Control clinicians focused on understanding and improving Alberta’s responsiveness to the pandemic. Specifically, that interdisciplinary team is working alongside acu…
Knowledge Gaps in the Understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance in Canada
Current limitations in the understanding and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Canada are described through a comprehensive review focusing on: (1) treatment optimization; (2) surveillance of antimicrobial use and AMR; and (3) prevention of transmission of AMR. Without addressing gaps in identified areas, sustained progress in AMR mitigation is unlikely. Expert opinions and perspectives contributed to prioritizing identified gaps. Usin…
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