Sine Kirkegaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 263493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sine Kirkegaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirkegaard |
| SIGNATURE | KIRKEGAARD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0191-1001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who are the experts? A study of the everyday enactment of expertise in mental health care
Public welfare increasingly integrates ‘ordinary citizens’ as experts in the provision of services. While scholars argue that the advent of citizen expertise represents a new openness in knowledge production, little attention has been given to how this new premise for calling someone an expert changes the everyday enactment of expertise. This article examines expertise as an interactional accomplishment, analysing how participants negotiate epist…
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services
The digitalisation of society has transformed the way people interact with each other – a development that has also influenced social work, pushing the discipline into a digital sphere. Today, social workers communicate with clients through e-mails, text messages, video calls and apps. The digitalisation of social work has entailed innovative ways of conducting social work, including the potential to strengthen children's and families' engagement…
Ethnography of User Involvement
This article explores the methodological dilemmas that arise when conducting ethnography of user involvement in mental healthcare settings. Public health systems commonly integrate the experiences and insights of service users to enhance service quality and "empower" participants. In health research, there is a growing interest in coproducing research with participants, leading to an expanding body of literature on collaborative research methodol…
Peer workers as emotion managers
Peer support is increasingly an integrated part of formalized mental health care, in which individuals with lived experiences of mental illness are employed as peer workers (PWs) to provide support to service users. While the supportive nature of peer support has been widely recognized in the mental health system, little is known about the everyday emotional management that such work requires. To address this gap, we examine the emotional mechani…
Imposed volunteering
This article contributes to the sociology of care-relational justice by identifying, conceptualising and unpacking 'imposed volunteering' as a mechanism that shapes societal caring arrangements. Contemporary societies allocate care work disproportionately to women, ethnic minorities and working-class citizens, which exacerbates social inequalities. Distribution of caring responsibilities is a political question but often not recognised as such, b…
Experiential knowledge in mental health services
The shift towards recovery-oriented mental health care has led to the extensive growth of peer support in contemporary service delivery. When enacting peer support, peer workers (PWs) use their lived experiences of mental illness to provide support to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties. While PWs are increasingly an integrated part of mental health services, the way in which peer support unfolds in everyday practices remains unde…
Co-Production of Care During Covid-19
This feature article explores how Danish authorities have worked to secure public health in cooperation with citizens, companies, and civil society organizations amid an unfolding pandemic
The Everyday Drama of Coproduction in Community Mental Health Services
Current welfare policy encourages “coproduction” between citizens and welfare workers so that “lay expertise” effectively becomes part of the provision of services. Drawing on fieldwork from Danish mental health services, this article analyzes how expertise and authority are organized and performed in a network linking welfare workers and users as well as new participants (e.g., volunteers) and artifacts. Theoretically, the article employs Goffma…
Co-production in community mental health services
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill th…
Co-production in community mental health services
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill th…
Imposed volunteering
This article contributes to the sociology of care-relational justice by identifying, conceptualising and unpacking 'imposed volunteering' as a mechanism that shapes societal caring arrangements. Contemporary societies allocate care work disproportionately to women, ethnic minorities and working-class citizens, which exacerbates social inequalities. Distribution of caring responsibilities is a political question but often not recognised as such, b…
Experiential knowledge in mental health services
The shift towards recovery-oriented mental health care has led to the extensive growth of peer support in contemporary service delivery. When enacting peer support, peer workers (PWs) use their lived experiences of mental illness to provide support to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties. While PWs are increasingly an integrated part of mental health services, the way in which peer support unfolds in everyday practices remains unde…
Co-production in community mental health services
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill th…
Co-Production of Care During Covid-19
This feature article explores how Danish authorities have worked to secure public health in cooperation with citizens, companies, and civil society organizations amid an unfolding pandemic
The Everyday Drama of Coproduction in Community Mental Health Services
Current welfare policy encourages “coproduction” between citizens and welfare workers so that “lay expertise” effectively becomes part of the provision of services. Drawing on fieldwork from Danish mental health services, this article analyzes how expertise and authority are organized and performed in a network linking welfare workers and users as well as new participants (e.g., volunteers) and artifacts. Theoretically, the article employs Goffma…
Peer workers as emotion managers
Peer support is increasingly an integrated part of formalized mental health care, in which individuals with lived experiences of mental illness are employed as peer workers (PWs) to provide support to service users. While the supportive nature of peer support has been widely recognized in the mental health system, little is known about the everyday emotional management that such work requires. To address this gap, we examine the emotional mechani…
Imposed volunteering
This article contributes to the sociology of care-relational justice by identifying, conceptualising and unpacking 'imposed volunteering' as a mechanism that shapes societal caring arrangements. Contemporary societies allocate care work disproportionately to women, ethnic minorities and working-class citizens, which exacerbates social inequalities. Distribution of caring responsibilities is a political question but often not recognised as such, b…
Experiential knowledge in mental health services
The shift towards recovery-oriented mental health care has led to the extensive growth of peer support in contemporary service delivery. When enacting peer support, peer workers (PWs) use their lived experiences of mental illness to provide support to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties. While PWs are increasingly an integrated part of mental health services, the way in which peer support unfolds in everyday practices remains unde…
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services
The digitalisation of society has transformed the way people interact with each other – a development that has also influenced social work, pushing the discipline into a digital sphere. Today, social workers communicate with clients through e-mails, text messages, video calls and apps. The digitalisation of social work has entailed innovative ways of conducting social work, including the potential to strengthen children's and families' engagement…
Ethnography of User Involvement
This article explores the methodological dilemmas that arise when conducting ethnography of user involvement in mental healthcare settings. Public health systems commonly integrate the experiences and insights of service users to enhance service quality and "empower" participants. In health research, there is a growing interest in coproducing research with participants, leading to an expanding body of literature on collaborative research methodol…
Who are the experts? A study of the everyday enactment of expertise in mental health care
Public welfare increasingly integrates ‘ordinary citizens’ as experts in the provision of services. While scholars argue that the advent of citizen expertise represents a new openness in knowledge production, little attention has been given to how this new premise for calling someone an expert changes the everyday enactment of expertise. This article examines expertise as an interactional accomplishment, analysing how participants negotiate epist…
Mental Health and Patient Involvement (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Health care (3 works)