Lieke Oldenhof
Biographic Data
| ID | 173074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lieke Oldenhof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Oldenhof |
| SIGNATURE | OLDENHOF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6188-3933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Epistemological Politics
Fundamental to action research in healthcare is the co-production of knowledge by researchers and participants, including professionals, patients and policymakers. Despite high expectations of co-produced knowledge, few scholars have reflected critically on how researchers navigate situations in which different kinds of knowledge are articulated and potentially clash both at the front- and backstage of research projects. Drawing on our own experi…
Guaranteed Income as Targeted Welfare? Mechanisms and Conditions Linking Income Security, Health, and Crime for Patients in Forensic Psychiatry
In welfare states, there is considerable interest in the potential of guaranteed income (GI) experiments to improve the well-being of (marginalised) populations. However, understanding the mechanisms by which GI affects interrelationships between financial well-being, mental health, and crime and under which conditions is limited. This paper addresses these gaps by analysing a Dutch GI experiment involving fourteen forensic psychiatric clients, e…
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice
In health care regulation, open outcome‐oriented standards are used to provide flexibility for care organizations to determine how to deal with complex issues. What remains understudied is how this works out in practice. This paper studies how inspectors use open standards to regulate the complex issue of person‐centered care. An exploratory qualitative multiple‐method design was used to study the work of inspectors who assess the quality of nurs…
Working With Value Complexity in Healthcare
In this paper, we argue for a rethinking of complexity in healthcare in terms of value complexity. Although widely adopted in healthcare, the positivist roots of complexity theory have thus far limited its applicability to understand the wicked nature of many healthcare challenges. We draw on a new pragmatist approach to contend that values are situated and embedded in practice, and demonstrate how values and practices co-develop in ways resembli…
Sphere transgressions in the Dutch digital welfare state
Welfare states across the world increasingly experiment with the use of big data and algorithms in the name of efficiency gains and fair decision-making. However, recent public scandals in various countries show persistent problems with how digital welfare states operate at the cost of vulnerable populations. Problems include systemic forms of discrimination, increasing levels of surveillance, stigmatization, and restricted access to public benef…
Sphere transgressions in health and social care
Social scientists are increasingly involved in large health technology consortia to enhance the societal relevance and acceptability of the innovations that are developed, tested, or implemented. In this paper, we critically reflect on the role of such ‘embedded social scientists’ in various digital health technology initiatives. We reflect on our experiences in several large-scale consortia and smaller local partnerships we were involved in stud…
Which client is worthy of using discretion? Analysing storytelling practices of Dutch street-level bureaucrats in inter-departmental settings
Multiple welfare states are re-emphasising the need for street-level bureaucrats' (SLBs) discretion to stimulate responsive service provision. However, little is known about how SLBs with diverse backgrounds in inter-departmental settings deliberate what it means to use discretion well when different rules, eligibility criteria, and interpretations apply to a client. We address this gap by investigating the stories that participants of a Dutch po…
The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in Covid-19 health risk governance
Decision-making processes in times of crisis are rarely scrutinised. In this study we open up the ‘black box’ of regional COVID-19 decision-making. From March 2020 to June 2021, we had the unique opportunity to do (mostly) on-site ethnographic research and watch the unfolding of COVID-19 decision-making, as this took place in meetings. This enabled us to examine how timeframes played a key role within an important decision-making forum in the Net…
Can leadership make the difference? A scoping review of leadership and its effects in child and youth care
Governing the resilient city
Resilience is increasingly used as a new discourse for dealing with future shocks, crises and transition in urban governance. Although embraced in policy and academia, resilience is also severely critiqued as a continuation of neo-liberal thinking. To avoid the trap of imposing a meta-narrative on resilience, we argue that resilience should be treated as a ‘matter of empirics’. Using a governmentality lens, we empirically investigate how the resi…
Bedtime negotiations
This study explores how actors deal with normative complexity in the design and implementation of practices of preventative care. Previous studies have identified conflicting (e)valuations of prevention within health care at large, but little empirical research describes how these conflicts are resolved in day-to-day interactions. Zooming in on the work of a single actor, our ethnographic study describes a Dutch psychiatrist developing a novel ty…
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments
Despite the “turn to values” in Public Administration, there is still a lack of empirical research in situ that investigates how various stakeholders in interaction develop strategies to deal with conflicting values over time. By using a new pragmatist approach, this article fills in this gap by investigating policy experiments in Dutch healthcare. The results show how professionals, citizens, and policymakers differently valued the worth of poli…
On Staging Work
While recent science and technology studies literature focuses on "projectification" and its felt tensions for researchers, a surprising scarcity of empirical work addresses experiences at the "other end," such as funding bodies often held "responsible" for tensions encountered by researchers. Actors in funding bodies experience similar tensions, however. While projectification necessitates predictability and individual project objectives, resear…
Institutional Work in Changing Public Service Organizations
It is often argued that increased volunteer participation in public service organizations will lead to de-professionalization of established professionals. Adopting a relational approach, this article shows that professionalization of new actors can actually initiate and reinforce the professionalization of others. This article focuses on the interplay between nonelite actors in social care that carry out institutional work aimed at pursuing thre…
From context to contexting
Physicians are known for safeguarding their professional identities against organisational influences. However, this study shows how a medical leadership programme enables the reconstruction of professional identities that work with rather than against organisational and institutional contexts to improve quality and efficiency of care. Based on an ethnographic study, the results illustrate how physicians initially construct conflicting leadership…
Who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’? Participation of older persons in health research and the interplay between capital, habitus and field
Inclusion and exclusion processes in community engagement do not take place in a vacuum, but are embedded in social, political and institutional contexts. To better capture the interplay between the individual agency of community participants and organizational structures in health research, we use a Bourdieusian framework. The notions of capital, habitus and field allow us to analyse how inclusion and exclusion of older persons in a Dutch health…
Discursively framing physicians as leaders
On Justification Work
In the public administration literature, a variety of responses to value conflicts have been described, such as trade‐offs, decoupling values, and incrementalism. Yet little attention has been paid to the possibility of constructive compromises that enable public managers to deal with conflicting values simultaneously rather than separately. The authors use Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's theory of justification to extend current conceptuali…
Discursively framing physicians as leaders
From context to contexting
Physicians are known for safeguarding their professional identities against organisational influences. However, this study shows how a medical leadership programme enables the reconstruction of professional identities that work with rather than against organisational and institutional contexts to improve quality and efficiency of care. Based on an ethnographic study, the results illustrate how physicians initially construct conflicting leadership…
Governing the resilient city
Resilience is increasingly used as a new discourse for dealing with future shocks, crises and transition in urban governance. Although embraced in policy and academia, resilience is also severely critiqued as a continuation of neo-liberal thinking. To avoid the trap of imposing a meta-narrative on resilience, we argue that resilience should be treated as a ‘matter of empirics’. Using a governmentality lens, we empirically investigate how the resi…
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments
Despite the “turn to values” in Public Administration, there is still a lack of empirical research in situ that investigates how various stakeholders in interaction develop strategies to deal with conflicting values over time. By using a new pragmatist approach, this article fills in this gap by investigating policy experiments in Dutch healthcare. The results show how professionals, citizens, and policymakers differently valued the worth of poli…
On Staging Work
While recent science and technology studies literature focuses on "projectification" and its felt tensions for researchers, a surprising scarcity of empirical work addresses experiences at the "other end," such as funding bodies often held "responsible" for tensions encountered by researchers. Actors in funding bodies experience similar tensions, however. While projectification necessitates predictability and individual project objectives, resear…
Which client is worthy of using discretion? Analysing storytelling practices of Dutch street-level bureaucrats in inter-departmental settings
Multiple welfare states are re-emphasising the need for street-level bureaucrats' (SLBs) discretion to stimulate responsive service provision. However, little is known about how SLBs with diverse backgrounds in inter-departmental settings deliberate what it means to use discretion well when different rules, eligibility criteria, and interpretations apply to a client. We address this gap by investigating the stories that participants of a Dutch po…
Institutional Work in Changing Public Service Organizations
It is often argued that increased volunteer participation in public service organizations will lead to de-professionalization of established professionals. Adopting a relational approach, this article shows that professionalization of new actors can actually initiate and reinforce the professionalization of others. This article focuses on the interplay between nonelite actors in social care that carry out institutional work aimed at pursuing thre…
On Justification Work
In the public administration literature, a variety of responses to value conflicts have been described, such as trade‐offs, decoupling values, and incrementalism. Yet little attention has been paid to the possibility of constructive compromises that enable public managers to deal with conflicting values simultaneously rather than separately. The authors use Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's theory of justification to extend current conceptuali…
Who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’? Participation of older persons in health research and the interplay between capital, habitus and field
Inclusion and exclusion processes in community engagement do not take place in a vacuum, but are embedded in social, political and institutional contexts. To better capture the interplay between the individual agency of community participants and organizational structures in health research, we use a Bourdieusian framework. The notions of capital, habitus and field allow us to analyse how inclusion and exclusion of older persons in a Dutch health…
Discursively framing physicians as leaders
Institutional Work in Changing Public Service Organizations
It is often argued that increased volunteer participation in public service organizations will lead to de-professionalization of established professionals. Adopting a relational approach, this article shows that professionalization of new actors can actually initiate and reinforce the professionalization of others. This article focuses on the interplay between nonelite actors in social care that carry out institutional work aimed at pursuing thre…
From context to contexting
Physicians are known for safeguarding their professional identities against organisational influences. However, this study shows how a medical leadership programme enables the reconstruction of professional identities that work with rather than against organisational and institutional contexts to improve quality and efficiency of care. Based on an ethnographic study, the results illustrate how physicians initially construct conflicting leadership…
Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments
Despite the “turn to values” in Public Administration, there is still a lack of empirical research in situ that investigates how various stakeholders in interaction develop strategies to deal with conflicting values over time. By using a new pragmatist approach, this article fills in this gap by investigating policy experiments in Dutch healthcare. The results show how professionals, citizens, and policymakers differently valued the worth of poli…
On Staging Work
While recent science and technology studies literature focuses on "projectification" and its felt tensions for researchers, a surprising scarcity of empirical work addresses experiences at the "other end," such as funding bodies often held "responsible" for tensions encountered by researchers. Actors in funding bodies experience similar tensions, however. While projectification necessitates predictability and individual project objectives, resear…
The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in Covid-19 health risk governance
Decision-making processes in times of crisis are rarely scrutinised. In this study we open up the ‘black box’ of regional COVID-19 decision-making. From March 2020 to June 2021, we had the unique opportunity to do (mostly) on-site ethnographic research and watch the unfolding of COVID-19 decision-making, as this took place in meetings. This enabled us to examine how timeframes played a key role within an important decision-making forum in the Net…
Can leadership make the difference? A scoping review of leadership and its effects in child and youth care
Governing the resilient city
Resilience is increasingly used as a new discourse for dealing with future shocks, crises and transition in urban governance. Although embraced in policy and academia, resilience is also severely critiqued as a continuation of neo-liberal thinking. To avoid the trap of imposing a meta-narrative on resilience, we argue that resilience should be treated as a ‘matter of empirics’. Using a governmentality lens, we empirically investigate how the resi…
Bedtime negotiations
This study explores how actors deal with normative complexity in the design and implementation of practices of preventative care. Previous studies have identified conflicting (e)valuations of prevention within health care at large, but little empirical research describes how these conflicts are resolved in day-to-day interactions. Zooming in on the work of a single actor, our ethnographic study describes a Dutch psychiatrist developing a novel ty…
Sphere transgressions in the Dutch digital welfare state
Welfare states across the world increasingly experiment with the use of big data and algorithms in the name of efficiency gains and fair decision-making. However, recent public scandals in various countries show persistent problems with how digital welfare states operate at the cost of vulnerable populations. Problems include systemic forms of discrimination, increasing levels of surveillance, stigmatization, and restricted access to public benef…
Sphere transgressions in health and social care
Social scientists are increasingly involved in large health technology consortia to enhance the societal relevance and acceptability of the innovations that are developed, tested, or implemented. In this paper, we critically reflect on the role of such ‘embedded social scientists’ in various digital health technology initiatives. We reflect on our experiences in several large-scale consortia and smaller local partnerships we were involved in stud…
Which client is worthy of using discretion? Analysing storytelling practices of Dutch street-level bureaucrats in inter-departmental settings
Multiple welfare states are re-emphasising the need for street-level bureaucrats' (SLBs) discretion to stimulate responsive service provision. However, little is known about how SLBs with diverse backgrounds in inter-departmental settings deliberate what it means to use discretion well when different rules, eligibility criteria, and interpretations apply to a client. We address this gap by investigating the stories that participants of a Dutch po…
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice
In health care regulation, open outcome‐oriented standards are used to provide flexibility for care organizations to determine how to deal with complex issues. What remains understudied is how this works out in practice. This paper studies how inspectors use open standards to regulate the complex issue of person‐centered care. An exploratory qualitative multiple‐method design was used to study the work of inspectors who assess the quality of nurs…
Working With Value Complexity in Healthcare
In this paper, we argue for a rethinking of complexity in healthcare in terms of value complexity. Although widely adopted in healthcare, the positivist roots of complexity theory have thus far limited its applicability to understand the wicked nature of many healthcare challenges. We draw on a new pragmatist approach to contend that values are situated and embedded in practice, and demonstrate how values and practices co-develop in ways resembli…
On Epistemological Politics
Fundamental to action research in healthcare is the co-production of knowledge by researchers and participants, including professionals, patients and policymakers. Despite high expectations of co-produced knowledge, few scholars have reflected critically on how researchers navigate situations in which different kinds of knowledge are articulated and potentially clash both at the front- and backstage of research projects. Drawing on our own experi…
Guaranteed Income as Targeted Welfare? Mechanisms and Conditions Linking Income Security, Health, and Crime for Patients in Forensic Psychiatry
In welfare states, there is considerable interest in the potential of guaranteed income (GI) experiments to improve the well-being of (marginalised) populations. However, understanding the mechanisms by which GI affects interrelationships between financial well-being, mental health, and crime and under which conditions is limited. This paper addresses these gaps by analysing a Dutch GI experiment involving fourteen forensic psychiatric clients, e…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works)