Collaborative Dilemma Guide:A Handbook for Elevating Best Team Practices

This book delves into the heart of research for societal engagement and social innovation. In an era where the boundaries of academia and the wider world blur, this guide seeks to be an indispensable compass for those seeking to initiate, consolidate, and finalize collaborations that transcend the confines of ‘traditional’ research that solely took place within universities.The handbook is aimed at collaborating partners – both researchers and partners from various sectors in society – who wish to work on their collaboration. Collaborative endeavors include often-hidden social dynamics, which maycharacterize the work environment of all affiliated parties and ultimately what partners are able to achieve together. In short: collaborations leave their mark on the success of any project, so why not become an expert?This book delves into the heart of research for societal engagement and social innovation. In an era where the boundaries of academia and the wider world blur, this guide seeks to be an indispensable compass for those seeking to initiate, consolidate, and finalize collaborations that transcend the confines of ‘traditional’ research that solely took place within universities.The handbook is aimed at collaborating partners – both researchers and partners from various sectors in society – who wish to work on their collaboration. Collaborative endeavors include often-hidden social dynamics, which maycharacterize the work environment of all affiliated parties and ultimately what partners are able to achieve together. In short: collaborations leave their mark on the success of any project, so why not become an expert

Workarounds in the Danish health sector:From tacit to explicit innovation

Drawing on actor-network theory (ANT) and science and technology studies (STS) and on ethnographic research in Denmark, we argue that how health care workers work around technologies can be conceptualized as tacit innovation – that is, practical expressions of active encounters with the complexity of work situations and therefore potential sources of sustainable and innovative work practices. The concept ‘invisible work’ is used to show that ‘what counts as work’ is bound up with technologies that are not neutral. Technologies, professionals, and patients implicitly co-constitute innovation processes, and we argue that in order to understand the potential of tacit innovation among health care workers, one must revisit the dichotomy between technology producers and technology end-users. The aim and contribution of this paper is thus to attempt to revitalize the discussion about technology workarounds as initiatives of tacit innovation, thus adding to the theoretical conceptualization of invisible work when technologies are used in health care work

Bevægelige styringsteknologier og deres effekter for professionelle subjektiveringsmuligheder

AbstractArtiklen viser, gennem introduktionen af begrebet “teknologi som kontinuum” og analytiske eksempler, hvordan man kan forstå tilblivelsesprocesser for en ny behandlingspraksis i voksenpsykiatrien (Åben Dialog) og dennes effekt på de professionelles subjektiveringsmuligheder. “Teknologi som kontinuum” defineres her som et begreb, der rummer: 1. at man ikke ved på forhånd, hvordan en teknologi samles og skabes lokalt, og hvordan den forbinder sig til de sociale og materielle omgivelser. Derfor bliver man nødt til at undersøge den empirisk for at kende dens styringseffekter 2. Den manifesterer sig på mangfoldige måder, både stabile måder, og måder som er ‘på vej’ 3. Den er usikker og ustabil. Effekterne for de professionelle subjektiveringsmuligheder er: 1. et indre forhold for den enkelte, som går forud for standardiseringsværktøjer og klinisk evidens 2. en oppositionsposition og modstandsstrategi til at legitimere den nye praksis med. 3. Et orienteringsredskab til at navigere mellem ny og gammel praksis med. Overordnet er argumentet, at forandringer i praksis hverken kan forudbestemmes eller isoleres fra omgivelserne, og forandringerne vil altid have empirisk funderet effekter på de professionelles subjektiveringsmulighede

Teaching ethical participatory codesign

How to incorporate critical and societally relevant thinking and acting into Higher Education teaching formats? The article proposes social design workshops, which teach ethics through design by explicitly addressing and building on the functional diversity of participating stakeholders, and by fostering ongoing mutual reflection. These workshops are inspired by participatory design, political theory, disability studies and psychological practice research. By drawing on empirical material from a design workshop with Bachelor students and external collaborators including psychologically vulnerable stakeholders, we argue for an adaptive framework of analytical-pedagogical inquiry that can be continuously co-designed. In particular, ethical design requires a broad and emergent definition of participation. Ethical design is participatory-democratic co-design, which acknowledges and bridges across the various stakeholders’ functional diversity