Biography
My main research interest lies in the building, functioning and consequences of knowledge infrastructures for the governance of health care. I have studied such infrastructures both at (inter)national (e.g. the working of science advisory bodies), sectoral (e.g. the use of performance indicators in health care), organisational (e.g. planning & control cycles in hospitals) and shopfloor levels (e.g. the implementation and use of information technologies). Currently my main interest is in organisational infrastructures for quality and safety in health care. Projects related to this agenda are studies on the regionalisation of elderly and mental healthcare and a study on task differentiation of nursing care. Also I am involved in several studies with and focused on the work of the Healthcare Inspectorate.
Methodologically, I have specialised in qualitative, mainly ethnographic research methods. I have become increasingly interested in 'interventionist' or 'action' research as well as on the study of 'complex' interventions in health care and 'mixed methods' research.
I am a member of the Dutch research school of Science, Technology & Modern Culture and of the Society for the Social Study of Science. I participate in the European Health Policy Group, a group of political scientists and economists studying (comparative) health policy.
I teach in several programs of the Erasmus Shool of Health Policy and Management. I also coordinate a course on Organizing for Quality in the Nfu Master program on Quality and safety in healthcare..
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- r.bal@eshpm.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Martijn Felder, Syb Kuijper, Davina Allen, Roland Bal & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - Job crafting as retention strategy: An ethnographic account of the challenges faced in crafting new nursing roles in care practice - The International Journal of Health Planning and Management - doi: 10.1002/hpm.3780 - [link]
- Hester van de Bovenkamp, Bert de Graaff, Karin Kalthoff & Roland Bal (2024) - The Patient Representation Struggle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Missed Opportunities for Resilient Healthcare Systems - Health Expectations, 27 (1) - doi: 10.1111/hex.13877 - [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]
- 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]
- Robert A.J. Borst, Rik Wehrens, Moustapha Nsangou, Dachi Arikpo, Ekpereonne Esu, Ali Al Metleq, Olivia Hobden, Martin Meremikwu, Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, Roland Bal & Maarten Olivier Kok (2023) - What makes knowledge translation work in practice?: Lessons from a demand-driven and locally led project in Cameroon, Jordan and Nigeria - Health Research Policy and Systems, 21 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12961-023-01083-6 - [link]
- Samantha Copeland, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, Federica Fecondo, Esteban Ralon Santizo, Roland Bal & Tina Comes (2023) - A resilience view on health system resilience: a scoping review of empirical studies and reviews - Bmc Health Services Research, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10022-8 - [link]
- Koray Parmaksiz, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Does structural form matter?: A comparative analysis of pooled procurement mechanisms for health commodities - Globalization and Health, 19 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12992-023-00974-1 - [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 - 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]
- Jan Willem Weenink, Jaco Tresfon, Iris van de Voort, Teyler van Muijden, Jaap Hamming & Roland Bal (2023) - Room for resilience: a qualitative study about accountability mechanisms in the relation between work-as-done (WAD) and work-as-imagined (WAI) in hospitals - Bmc Health Services Research, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10035-3 - [link]
Radboudumc
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- NIJMEGEN
- Description
- Modulecoordinator master Kwaliteit en veiligheid N
ZonMw
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Lid Commissie Actie-onderzoek
ZonMw
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Lid commissie implementatiefellow doelmatigheid
ZonMw
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Lid commissie veerkracht preventie
Integration project
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW103I
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GWAVV-23
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW101K
Advanced Research Methods
- Level
- master - jaar 2
- Year Level
- master - jaar 2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4003MD
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4007MV
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4555M
Healthcare Ethics
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4564M
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4007MD
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4030MV
Comparative Health Policy
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4574M
Advanced Research Methods
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4588M