Sarah’s research examines collaboration in the governance of healthcare. As the sector grapples with challenges like an ageing population, workforce shortages, and financial constraints, collaboration across different levels of government and organizational boundaries is considered crucial. Sarah studies how such collaborative processes unfold, both among policy and managerial actors and in everyday practice, for example in neighborhoods or nursing homes. She is particularly interested in how social and institutional dynamics shape, and sometimes complicate, efforts to organize and deliver healthcare effectively.
Her work combines perspectives from public administration and organizational sciences, and is grounded in an interpretive and critical research tradition. She uses methods such as ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine how central and local actors interact and make sense of collaboration. Drawing on theories of collaborative governance, boundary work, and paradox theory, she uncovers the tensions and potential of collaborative processes, offering new insights into how governance in healthcare can be improved.
