Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 168671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth Naima |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikkelsen |
| SIGNATURE | MIKKELSEN E N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2015-9687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disciplining empathy in frontline encounters: Learning to handle emotion norms in practice
Empathy is essential for many frontline professionals, with public administration and management research often focusing on its positive aspects. However, this idealization can blind us to the potential ‘dark side’ of how empathy works. We integrate research on empathy and emotion work to introduce the concept of empathy work to explore the adverse effects of empathy. Presenting a longitudinal study with Danish police trainees, we show that while…
Unpacking Police Endorsement of Myths Surrounding Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Formation and Implications
Drawing on a qualitative case study consisting of interviews with Danish police trainees, patrol officers, and police detectives, this article explores police endorsement of myths surrounding male-perpetrated intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) and its influence on police response to IPVAW incidents. The findings show that police officers begin to believe in the myths to cope with negative emotions arising from repeated exposure to IP…
Does gradeless learning affect students' academic performance? A study of effects over time
Many have suggested that performance grading may be a factor in the increasing number of students reporting having mental health issues, including feelings of stress. Gradeless learning has been shown to ease the pressure on students because it encourages a focus on learning rather than performance. Indeed, gradeless learning has been documented to benefit well-being, stress reduction, motivation, and learning approach, but its influence on acade…
Organisational perspectives on boring prison work: Between emancipation and paranoia
Boredom may take different forms depending on the setting. However, most existing literature portrays it as a negative phenomenon for both individuals and organisations. While boredom is studied primarily via controlled laboratory experiments and questionnaire-based studies, past research has been criticised for neglecting to understand workers’ experiences of boredom in real-world work settings. Drawing on a qualitative case study comprising of …
Looking over your shoulder: Embodied responses to contamination in the emotional dirty work of prison officers
Fear of contamination is central to our thinking about ‘dirty work’, that is, tasks and occupations that carry a stigma owing to being perceived as having degrading, disgusting, or immoral qualities. However, most existing literature focuses on the symbolic dimension of taint – particularly, dirty workers’ cognitive, ideological tactics to counter taint. Although contamination has more material consequences, the processes through which it is expe…
Guest editorial
Dominant, hidden and forbidden sensemaking: The politics of ideology and emotions in diversity management
An important but understudied issue in the study of organisational sensemaking concerns how power and politics influence sensemaking processes, specifically the political struggles immanent in collective processes of meaning construction and organising. When people are located at different areas and levels in the organisational hierarchy and they draw on different experiences and areas of knowledge, they often develop conflicting interpretations,…
Conflict: Organizational
A researcher's tale: How doing conflict research shapes research about conflict
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to display and critically reflect upon how field experiences in the research process interacted with the author's subjectivity and shaped her construction of knowledge about organisational conflict. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on Weick's theoretical framework of sensemaking and the notion of reflexivity as a resource for dealing with research experiences, the paper presents empirical narratives that ex…
Development of Practice: Moving from a curative approach to a comprehensive community-based response to survivors of armed conflict — the case of the Balay Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines
In this paper it is described how the work of the Balay Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines has changed over time as the political and human rights conditions of the country's affected areas have changed. Balay's psychosocial rehabilitation programmes address the needs of individuals and communities and offer support and healing. Originally Balay focused on individual and family-level psychological and social intervention in accordance with …
Psycho-Education with Asylum Seekers and Survivors of Torture
Looking over your shoulder: Embodied responses to contamination in the emotional dirty work of prison officers
Fear of contamination is central to our thinking about ‘dirty work’, that is, tasks and occupations that carry a stigma owing to being perceived as having degrading, disgusting, or immoral qualities. However, most existing literature focuses on the symbolic dimension of taint – particularly, dirty workers’ cognitive, ideological tactics to counter taint. Although contamination has more material consequences, the processes through which it is expe…
Does gradeless learning affect students' academic performance? A study of effects over time
Many have suggested that performance grading may be a factor in the increasing number of students reporting having mental health issues, including feelings of stress. Gradeless learning has been shown to ease the pressure on students because it encourages a focus on learning rather than performance. Indeed, gradeless learning has been documented to benefit well-being, stress reduction, motivation, and learning approach, but its influence on acade…
Psycho-Education with Asylum Seekers and Survivors of Torture
Development of Practice: Moving from a curative approach to a comprehensive community-based response to survivors of armed conflict — the case of the Balay Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines
In this paper it is described how the work of the Balay Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines has changed over time as the political and human rights conditions of the country's affected areas have changed. Balay's psychosocial rehabilitation programmes address the needs of individuals and communities and offer support and healing. Originally Balay focused on individual and family-level psychological and social intervention in accordance with …
A researcher's tale: How doing conflict research shapes research about conflict
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to display and critically reflect upon how field experiences in the research process interacted with the author's subjectivity and shaped her construction of knowledge about organisational conflict. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on Weick's theoretical framework of sensemaking and the notion of reflexivity as a resource for dealing with research experiences, the paper presents empirical narratives that ex…
Conflict: Organizational
Dominant, hidden and forbidden sensemaking: The politics of ideology and emotions in diversity management
An important but understudied issue in the study of organisational sensemaking concerns how power and politics influence sensemaking processes, specifically the political struggles immanent in collective processes of meaning construction and organising. When people are located at different areas and levels in the organisational hierarchy and they draw on different experiences and areas of knowledge, they often develop conflicting interpretations,…
Guest editorial
Organisational perspectives on boring prison work: Between emancipation and paranoia
Boredom may take different forms depending on the setting. However, most existing literature portrays it as a negative phenomenon for both individuals and organisations. While boredom is studied primarily via controlled laboratory experiments and questionnaire-based studies, past research has been criticised for neglecting to understand workers’ experiences of boredom in real-world work settings. Drawing on a qualitative case study comprising of …
Looking over your shoulder: Embodied responses to contamination in the emotional dirty work of prison officers
Fear of contamination is central to our thinking about ‘dirty work’, that is, tasks and occupations that carry a stigma owing to being perceived as having degrading, disgusting, or immoral qualities. However, most existing literature focuses on the symbolic dimension of taint – particularly, dirty workers’ cognitive, ideological tactics to counter taint. Although contamination has more material consequences, the processes through which it is expe…
Unpacking Police Endorsement of Myths Surrounding Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Formation and Implications
Drawing on a qualitative case study consisting of interviews with Danish police trainees, patrol officers, and police detectives, this article explores police endorsement of myths surrounding male-perpetrated intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) and its influence on police response to IPVAW incidents. The findings show that police officers begin to believe in the myths to cope with negative emotions arising from repeated exposure to IP…
Does gradeless learning affect students' academic performance? A study of effects over time
Many have suggested that performance grading may be a factor in the increasing number of students reporting having mental health issues, including feelings of stress. Gradeless learning has been shown to ease the pressure on students because it encourages a focus on learning rather than performance. Indeed, gradeless learning has been documented to benefit well-being, stress reduction, motivation, and learning approach, but its influence on acade…
Disciplining empathy in frontline encounters: Learning to handle emotion norms in practice
Empathy is essential for many frontline professionals, with public administration and management research often focusing on its positive aspects. However, this idealization can blind us to the potential ‘dark side’ of how empathy works. We integrate research on empathy and emotion work to introduce the concept of empathy work to explore the adverse effects of empathy. Presenting a longitudinal study with Danish police trainees, we show that while…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)