This Thursday we will meet and discuss a recent publication within the team. The idea is to map and discuss who we are as researchers, if we change, and the consequences of this on our research. This is in an attempt to open up the discussion for more inclusive approaches to research.
This is the paper to be discussed:
Wright, A. L., Kent, D., Hällgren, M., & Rouleau, L. (2023). Theorizing as Mode of Engagement in and through Extreme Contexts Research. Organization Theory, 4(4)
For the past two days, TripleEd and guests (14 of us across the two days) have enjoyed discussing the joys and struggles of doing and publishing ethnographic research in Skeppsvik. Days filled with laughter, candid sharing, and adventure put academia in its best light.
Topics discussed include but were not limited to how to select data in a vast material, accessing settings that may be psychologically (or physically) difficult to handle without getting hurt, navigating IRBs, departmental and academic quirks, video ethnographic work, favorite papers, the challenges of developing academic illustrations, and the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary research.
Besides great discussions, Skeppsvik Herrgård delivered a beautiful, calm winter landscape, blue skies, and slowly falling snowflakes with great food. Activities also included proper Northern Sweden “korvgrillning” (one has to use Falukorv, without mustard or ketchup…) with milk chocolate, seeing an eagle floating across the sea, and snowmobiling (a lucky person, Markus could even take the snowmobile to work….)
A lot going on at the same time! We have the absolute pleasure of welcoming Natalie Toft to the TripleEd team. Natalie will be working with Sophie and Markus on the hybrid leadership in the incident command system project and thus closely following the Police ICS in the Northern region for an extended period of time. Welcome, Natalie; we are excited that you chose to join us!
Today we had the great pleasure of listening to Robin Burrow giving a presentation on “Publishing Multiple Papers from Ethnographic Research”. It is not our intention to wear him out, but when you are doing interesting stuff (and are ok with it) and is here for a longer period of time, we can’t but continue involving him! Some really thoughtful and interesting reflections on Robin’s work with highly skilled chefs from all over the world were shared with TripleEd and invited guests from the department!
This week we welcome Robin Burrow (Visiting Researcher and Senior Lecturer at University of York) who will hold a workshop titled “Publishing Multiple Papers from Ethnographic Research” on February 1st from 9:00 – 10:00 in the Green Room. During the workshop, Robin will reflect on his experience publishing four articles, all of which draw on an ongoing data collection effort in elite kitchens. The workshop will provide a behind-the-scenes view on the choices, dilemmas and opportunities inherent in “making the most of the data” collected through ethnographic methods.
If you are planning to attend, please email Markus (markus.hallgren(at)umu.se) for readings.
Tomorrow, the 25th of January, 2024 we will have the pleasure of reading and giving feedback Robin Burrow’s paper! (not disclosing the title of the paper to interfere with any review process – but it is exciting!)
Since it has been a while since we updated this website, not only has a lot happened, but we also re-started our TripleEd seminar series in a more organized way. We meet every Thursday at 9am to discuss matters that we find interesting. This includes a wide variety of topics and activities, ranging from sitting and writing together, talking about our research through demonstrating our research, to presenting papers and giving feedback on each other’s work. The idea is to keep this website updated on these activities to have something of an online archive of what is going on – and provide an opportunity for those who are interested to join us (if so, please reach out to know where)
Robin Burrow, Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies at the School for Business and Society at the University of York (UK) is visiting us from January 8th – March 2nd.
Robin’s research employs qualitative methods to explore the lived experience of engaging in extreme forms of work, including the medical and culinary professions. Robin completed his PhD at the University of Warwick and he holds/has held visiting positions at the University of Technology (Sydney), Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), the University of Birmingham (UK) and Audencia School of Management (France).
Markus (Hällgren) is the principal applicant for a new Swedish Research Council-funded project (2024-2026). With Sophie (Jané), they will study how leadership is translated and changed between several incident command organizations within the Police authority. Find more information about the project here: https://www.umu.se/nyheter/ledarskap-vid-extrema-handelser_11863413/
Abstract
This project concerns leadership practices in the incident command center (ICC) of the police authority. The ICC mandates “hybrid” leadership where responsibilities are assumed by different units to deal with extraordinary events. The purpose of this project is to understand how the mandate to practice hybrid leadership impacts the leadership identities of ICC staff (enactment) and how this mandate is performed in reality (translation). Research indicates that enacting and translating practices are likely to be challenging in crisis situations, which makes understanding the factors that support and constrain these processes important for national security. We therefore seek to:
1. Understand how hybrid leadership impacts the leadership identities of ICC staff
2. Understand how hybrid leadership is performed by the ICC across and within events
3. Provide practical recommendations regarding hybrid leadership within the ICC to improve
knowledge of responding to extraordinary events
We accomplish this in a three-year, multi-study project, employing ethnographic methods (fieldwork, interviews, workshops) to gain knowledge of how hybrid leadership is practiced within the ICC. We follow five extraordinary events as they unfold to 1) interview ICC staff about their leader identities over time and 2) observe ICC staff as they organize responses to events. Our project contributes to the research frontier in the fields of leadership studies, crisis response, and organizing in extreme contexts.
Oscar (Rantatalo) is the principal applicant for a new FORTE-funded project (2024-2026). With Ola (Lindberg) and a colleague at the Department of Psychology, he will focus on collaboration and learning with inter-functional investigative teams within the Police. See news in Swedish here: https://www.umu.se/nyheter/tvarfunktionella-team-i-brottsutredning_11778151/