Ellen H M Moors
Biographic Data
| ID | 3462918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen H M Moors |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen H M |
| FAMILY NAME | Moors |
| SIGNATURE | MOORS E H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9724-5308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Many Forms of "Good Ageing"
Digital health and social care innovations for older people embody specific ideas about “good ageing.” But what does good ageing mean to older adults themselves? And how do their ideas and practices relate to the ideas of good ageing that have informed the design of those digital tools that they are invited to engage with? Our research comic explores these questions by drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in three innovation initiati…
Responsible scaling of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Organizations across the globe are progressively investing in artificial intelligence (AI) innovations to meet today’s healthcare challenges. Meanwhile, public policy increasingly emphasizes the need for these innovations to be ‘scaled’. As scholars emphasize, scaling innovations is never just ‘more of the same’, but requires adapting innovations to local contexts. In this perspective paper, we aim to explore and draw attention to the tensions an…
When technology non-use troubles good ageing
In ageing research, policy, and practice, older adults' non-use of digital technologies is often discussed as an involuntary state that risks marginalising older adults. In recent years, critical appraisals of technology non-use in gerontological literature have opened up dominant definitions of non-use as a problem, re-constructing older adults' engagement with technology as diverse and deliberate practices. To understand the multifaceted nature…
How do people understand the spread of Covid-19 infections? Mapping mental models of factors contributing to the pandemic
OBJECTIVE: To describe the mental models people hold about the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on how they understand the factors that drive the spread of COVID-19 and what kind of beliefs are associated with these models. DESIGN: In a series of three studies (total N = 461), we asked participants to identify factors that are relevant for COVID-19 proliferation (Study 1a), rate the importance of factors (Study 1 b), and create a mental model of h…
Together for the greater goods
Social innovation initiatives in the pharmaceutical field seek alternative, collaborative ways to address problems with availability and affordability of medicines. However, these experimental initiatives require legitimacy. Formulating goals is a way of creating and contesting legitimacy, also for social innovation initiatives, yet has not been studied in this context. Based on document analysis (policy reports, news articles and websites) and s…
Mental models of the protein shift
The protein transition is one of today's major societal challenges to mitigate climate change. To support lasting consumer engagement, it has been suggested to look into consumers' understanding of the protein transition to identify barriers that go beyond the practical issues of changing one's diet. The current study explored consumers' mental models of how the transition unfolds to examine which factors consumers perceive as important drivers o…
Valuation in health and ageing innovation practices
In the development and deployment of health and ageing innovations, underlying values such as privacy or quality of life are often seen as a relatively stable starting point, if considered at all. However, values are neither stable nor singular. This paper introduces a valuation framework to explore the co-constitution of values and technological innovations. A careful and ongoing reflection on values and valuation, in particular in innovation pr…
Unlearning in sustainability transitions
The importance of double-loop learning and associated unlearning for sustainability transitions is increasingly recognised; however, a clear conceptualisation and empirical focus on unlearning is lacking. This paper combines conceptualisations of unlearning in organisation, business and management theory (‘organizational unlearning’) with postcolonial and feminist approaches to teaching and education (‘pedagogical unlearning’) to provide a richer…
Individual versus collective strategies in system building - The case of point-of-care diagnostics in Germany
From Mattering to Mattering More
This paper provides an empirical ethics analysis of the goods and bads enacted in EU ageing and innovation policy discourses. It revolves around a case study of the persona Maria, developed as part of the EU's Active and Healthy Ageing Policies. Drawing on Pols' empirical ethics as a theoretical and methodological approach, we describe the variety of goods (practices/situations to be strived for) and bads (practices/situations to be avoided) that…
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition
Transition studies have started to focus on market formation in innovation systems. This article investigates market formation in a global health transition that was instigated by drug-resistant malaria. We explore how markets for Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACT) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) were formed at multiple geographical scales and locations. The study reveals the role of public institutes, academia and partnerships i…
The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions
Endogenous regime change
The creation of legitimacy in grassroots organisations
Valuing health technology - habilitating and prosthetic strategies in personal health systems
Stakeholder Engagement in Pharmaceutical Regulation
The exclusive position of scientific expertise in pharmaceutical regulation is being increasingly challenged. Several authors suggest that lay knowledge could play a role in governing risks. We use the literature to develop ideal‐typical regulatory arrangements with low and high lay stakeholder involvement: a technocratic and a democratic arrangement. We propose that a more technocratic arrangement will yield a better process and output performan…
Functional foods
Worldwide consumers are becoming more interested in the relation between food \nand health. In order to harmonize regulation on foods throughout the EU, the \nRegulation EC1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims came into force, as a first \nspecific set of EU legal rules dealing with nutrition and health claims. A Union \nList of EU-wide approved claims is now being developed that creates a level \nplaying-field on which food operators can inno…
The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions
Endogenous regime change
Unlearning in sustainability transitions
The importance of double-loop learning and associated unlearning for sustainability transitions is increasingly recognised; however, a clear conceptualisation and empirical focus on unlearning is lacking. This paper combines conceptualisations of unlearning in organisation, business and management theory (‘organizational unlearning’) with postcolonial and feminist approaches to teaching and education (‘pedagogical unlearning’) to provide a richer…
The creation of legitimacy in grassroots organisations
Stakeholder Engagement in Pharmaceutical Regulation
The exclusive position of scientific expertise in pharmaceutical regulation is being increasingly challenged. Several authors suggest that lay knowledge could play a role in governing risks. We use the literature to develop ideal‐typical regulatory arrangements with low and high lay stakeholder involvement: a technocratic and a democratic arrangement. We propose that a more technocratic arrangement will yield a better process and output performan…
Mental models of the protein shift
The protein transition is one of today's major societal challenges to mitigate climate change. To support lasting consumer engagement, it has been suggested to look into consumers' understanding of the protein transition to identify barriers that go beyond the practical issues of changing one's diet. The current study explored consumers' mental models of how the transition unfolds to examine which factors consumers perceive as important drivers o…
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition
Transition studies have started to focus on market formation in innovation systems. This article investigates market formation in a global health transition that was instigated by drug-resistant malaria. We explore how markets for Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACT) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) were formed at multiple geographical scales and locations. The study reveals the role of public institutes, academia and partnerships i…
Valuing health technology - habilitating and prosthetic strategies in personal health systems
Functional foods
Worldwide consumers are becoming more interested in the relation between food \nand health. In order to harmonize regulation on foods throughout the EU, the \nRegulation EC1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims came into force, as a first \nspecific set of EU legal rules dealing with nutrition and health claims. A Union \nList of EU-wide approved claims is now being developed that creates a level \nplaying-field on which food operators can inno…
Stakeholder Engagement in Pharmaceutical Regulation
The exclusive position of scientific expertise in pharmaceutical regulation is being increasingly challenged. Several authors suggest that lay knowledge could play a role in governing risks. We use the literature to develop ideal‐typical regulatory arrangements with low and high lay stakeholder involvement: a technocratic and a democratic arrangement. We propose that a more technocratic arrangement will yield a better process and output performan…
Valuing health technology - habilitating and prosthetic strategies in personal health systems
The creation of legitimacy in grassroots organisations
Endogenous regime change
From Mattering to Mattering More
This paper provides an empirical ethics analysis of the goods and bads enacted in EU ageing and innovation policy discourses. It revolves around a case study of the persona Maria, developed as part of the EU's Active and Healthy Ageing Policies. Drawing on Pols' empirical ethics as a theoretical and methodological approach, we describe the variety of goods (practices/situations to be strived for) and bads (practices/situations to be avoided) that…
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition
Transition studies have started to focus on market formation in innovation systems. This article investigates market formation in a global health transition that was instigated by drug-resistant malaria. We explore how markets for Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACT) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) were formed at multiple geographical scales and locations. The study reveals the role of public institutes, academia and partnerships i…
The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions
Individual versus collective strategies in system building - The case of point-of-care diagnostics in Germany
Mental models of the protein shift
The protein transition is one of today's major societal challenges to mitigate climate change. To support lasting consumer engagement, it has been suggested to look into consumers' understanding of the protein transition to identify barriers that go beyond the practical issues of changing one's diet. The current study explored consumers' mental models of how the transition unfolds to examine which factors consumers perceive as important drivers o…
Valuation in health and ageing innovation practices
In the development and deployment of health and ageing innovations, underlying values such as privacy or quality of life are often seen as a relatively stable starting point, if considered at all. However, values are neither stable nor singular. This paper introduces a valuation framework to explore the co-constitution of values and technological innovations. A careful and ongoing reflection on values and valuation, in particular in innovation pr…
Unlearning in sustainability transitions
The importance of double-loop learning and associated unlearning for sustainability transitions is increasingly recognised; however, a clear conceptualisation and empirical focus on unlearning is lacking. This paper combines conceptualisations of unlearning in organisation, business and management theory (‘organizational unlearning’) with postcolonial and feminist approaches to teaching and education (‘pedagogical unlearning’) to provide a richer…
How do people understand the spread of Covid-19 infections? Mapping mental models of factors contributing to the pandemic
OBJECTIVE: To describe the mental models people hold about the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on how they understand the factors that drive the spread of COVID-19 and what kind of beliefs are associated with these models. DESIGN: In a series of three studies (total N = 461), we asked participants to identify factors that are relevant for COVID-19 proliferation (Study 1a), rate the importance of factors (Study 1 b), and create a mental model of h…
Together for the greater goods
Social innovation initiatives in the pharmaceutical field seek alternative, collaborative ways to address problems with availability and affordability of medicines. However, these experimental initiatives require legitimacy. Formulating goals is a way of creating and contesting legitimacy, also for social innovation initiatives, yet has not been studied in this context. Based on document analysis (policy reports, news articles and websites) and s…
Many Forms of "Good Ageing"
Digital health and social care innovations for older people embody specific ideas about “good ageing.” But what does good ageing mean to older adults themselves? And how do their ideas and practices relate to the ideas of good ageing that have informed the design of those digital tools that they are invited to engage with? Our research comic explores these questions by drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in three innovation initiati…
Responsible scaling of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Organizations across the globe are progressively investing in artificial intelligence (AI) innovations to meet today’s healthcare challenges. Meanwhile, public policy increasingly emphasizes the need for these innovations to be ‘scaled’. As scholars emphasize, scaling innovations is never just ‘more of the same’, but requires adapting innovations to local contexts. In this perspective paper, we aim to explore and draw attention to the tensions an…
When technology non-use troubles good ageing
In ageing research, policy, and practice, older adults' non-use of digital technologies is often discussed as an involuntary state that risks marginalising older adults. In recent years, critical appraisals of technology non-use in gerontological literature have opened up dominant definitions of non-use as a problem, re-constructing older adults' engagement with technology as diverse and deliberate practices. To understand the multifaceted nature…
Business (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Technology Use by Older Adults (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)