Biography
Iris Wallenburg is an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Trained as a nurse and health policy scientist, she obtained her PhD degree at the Free University of Amsterdam on a research about the modernization of medical training. In her research, Iris focuses on the practices of healthcare transition, using a practice-based (usually ethnographic, action-oriented) research approach. She is interested in how local practices (e.g., the introduction of new technologies, healthcare demands in specific geographical areas) are related to patient experience, professional issues and healthcare policies. She focuses on the enactment of governance arrangements, like the application of technology, quantified data (e.g., performance indicators), and the evolvement of new professional roles. In 2021, Iris joined the Erasmus Initiative on the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence, studying how AI transforms traditional practices of providing, receiving and governing healthcare. Furthermore, Iris leads two national action-based research projects related to healthcare staffing and employment (RN2Blend and RegioZ), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Vilans, professional associations and field level parties (i.e. hospitals, nursing homes) and collaborating universities. She is a member of a national advisory committee for future healthcare employment, and has joined various national and international research initiatives to strengthen healthcare workforce development.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- wallenburg@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Iris Wallenburg & Rocco Friebel (2024) - Value assessment and decision-making: How to move health systems forward? - Health Economics, Policy and Law, 19 (2), 151-152 - doi: 10.1017/S1744133124000082 - [link]
- Hugo Schalkwijk, Martijn Felder, Pieterbas Lalleman, Manon S. Parry, Lisette Schoonhoven & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - Five pathways into one profession: Fifty years of debate on differentiated nursing practice - Nursing Inquiry, 31 (3) - doi: 10.1111/nin.12631 - [link]
- Rocco Friebel & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - … and in with the new - Health economics, policy, and law, 19 (1), 1-2 - doi: 10.1017/s1744133123000361 - [link]
- Rik Wehrens, Iris Wallenburg & Lieke Oldenhof (2024) - Sphere transgressions in health and social care: reflections on the role of the embedded social scientist - Information Communication and Society - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2314546 - [link]
- Nienke van Pijkeren, Iris Wallenburg, Hester van de Bovenkamp, S (Siri) Wiig & Roland Bal (2024) - Caring Peripheries: How care practitioners respond to processes of peripheralisation - Sociologia Ruralis, 64 (1), 64-81 - doi: 10.1111/soru.12459 - [link]
- Viola Burau, Sofie Buch Mejsner, Michelle Falkenbach, Michael Fehsenfeld, Zuzana Kotherová, Stefano Neri, Iris Wallenburg & Ellen Kuhlmann (2024) - Post-COVID health policy responses to healthcare workforce capacities: A comparative analysis of health system resilience in six European countries - Health Policy, 139 - doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104962 - [link]
- Syb Kuijper, Martijn Felder, Stewart Clegg, Roland Bal & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - “We don't experiment with our patients!” An ethnographic account of the epistemic politics of (re)designing nursing work - Social Science and Medicine, 340 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116482 - [link]
- Nienke van Pijkeren, Jitse Schuurmans, Iris Wallenburg & Roland Bal (2024) - ‘The night is for sleeping’: how nurses care for conflicting temporal orders in older person care - Health Sociology Review, 33 (1), 10-23 - doi: 10.1080/14461242.2024.2316737 - [link]
- Martijn Felder, Jitse Schuurmans, Nienke van Pijkeren, Syb Kuijper, Roland Bal & Iris Wallenburg (2023) - Bedside Politics and Precarious Care: New Directions of Inquiry in Critical Nursing Studies - Advances in Nursing Science, 47 (4), E122-E137 - doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000518
- Iris Wallenburg, Rocco Friebel, Ulrika Winblad, Laia Maynou Pujolras & Roland Bal (2023) - 'Nurses are seen as general cargo, not the smart TVs you ship carefully': The politics of nurse staffing in England, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands - Health Economics, Policy and Law, 18 (4), 411-425 - doi: 10.1017/S1744133123000178 - [link]
- Francisca Grommé, Fenna Nijboer, Justien Dingelstad & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - The Entrepreneurial Nurse? Professional Tensions on Digital Platforms (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Justien Dingelstad, Francisca Grommé & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - Who Is the Expert Here? Participatory Ethnography of a Predictive Brain Tumor Algorithm That Challenges the Existing Hierarchy of Expertise Amongst Physicians (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Justien Dingelstad, Francisca Grommé, Jans Berden, Claartje ter Hoeven & Iris Wallenburg (2023) - The Caring Baker: How Digital Nursing Platforms Transform Healthcare (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Justien Dingelstad, Francisca Grommé & Iris Wallenburg (2023) - The Emergence of Nursing Platforms: A Multimodal Analysis of Platforms' Founding Practices (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GWAVV-24
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4030MV
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW101K