Biography
I am trained as a sociologist at the University of Amsterdam. In 2016 I successfully defended my PhD thesis on the interactions between the governance of uncertain health risks and citizens’ experiences of these risks at that same university. During these studies I was intrigued by sociological work on risk, medical sociology and health policy, and qualitative methods such as ethnography and discourse analysis. At the end of my PhD I worked as a postdoc at the Athena Institute at VU Amsterdam where my interest in patient and client participation was strengthened, in particular by engaging in research with patients themselves.
My start in 2016 as assistant professor at the Healthcare Governance department of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam allowed me to further develop my interests in the sociology of risk and uncertainty, and in patient and client participation research. Next to teaching in our Healthcare Management master program, I engaged in different research projects with the Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ) on patient and client participation in healthcare supervision. I very much value this close connection between academic research and practice, and I examined amongst other how and in what way patients’ experiential knowledge works in regulatory practices in elderly care and mental healthcare. How concepts of risk play out in regulatory practice is the question one of the PhD students (Mireille Kroekenstoel) I supervise is currently working on. In 2018 I became coordinator of our Academic Collaboration with the Dutch National Healthcare Institute (ZIN). In this collaboration I am able to develop similar questions on risk, uncertainty and participation but now in relation to issues of healthcare quality and valuation through supervising PhD students (Jolien van de Sande, Renee Michels).
Currently my own empirical research focuses on healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Right at the start of the pandemic we were able to acquire funding from NWO to closely follow the healthcare governance of the pandemic in the Netherlands by engaging in (digital) organizational ethnography. Before the summer of 2020 we did fieldwork on the level of one university hospital, afterwards we moved this research, through acquiring funds from ZonMW, to focus on the regional and national level in the Netherlands. Our aim is to keep following, and reflecting with key-actors in, the healthcare governance of the pandemic until October 2022.
(last update: April 2021)
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- degraaff@eshpm.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Hester van de Bovenkamp, Bert de Graaff, Karin Kalthoff & Roland Bal (2023) - The Patient Representation Struggle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Missed Opportunities for Resilient Healthcare Systems - Health Expectations - doi: 10.1111/hex.13877 - [link]
- Tamara Broughton, Anne Marie Jansen & Bert de Graaff (2023) - The development of Dutch COVID-19 ICU triage guidelines from an institutional work perspective - PLoS ONE, 18 (9), 1-15 - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Framing the pandemic: Multiplying “crises” in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic - Social Science & Medicine, 328 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115998 - [link]
- Rik Wehrens & Bert de Graaff (2023) - Werken met onzekerheid: de rol van patiënt en zorgverlener in nieuwe datapraktijken voor verzekerde zorg - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Syb Kuijper, Iris Wallenburg & Roland Bal (2022) - Naar een veerkrachtig zorgsysteem: lessen uit de pandemie - [link]
- Jenske Bal, Bert de Graaff, Greet Vos & Roland Bal (2022) - Mediating scarcity in pandemic times: an ethnographic study on the prevention and control of SARS-CoV-2 infections during the emergence of the corona crisis in the Netherlands - BMC Health Services Research, 22 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08843-0 - [link]
- Jolien van de Sande, Bert de Graaff, Diana Delnoij & Antoinette de Bont (2022) - Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency - Administration and Society, 54 (6), 1178-1206 - doi: 10.1177/00953997211057056 - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga, Jenske Bal, Syb Kuijper, Martijn Felder, Lotte Zwart, Karin Kalthoff, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Iris Wallenburg & Roland Bal (2022) - Leren dansen met een virus: Sturen van een meervoudige crisis in de zorg - [link]
- Iris Wallenburg, Bert de Graaff, Jenske Bal, Martijn Felder & Roland Bal (2021) - Dancing with a Virus: Finding new Rhythms of Organizing and Caring in Dutch Hospitals - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82696-3
- Bert de Graaff, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek & Hester Van de Bovenkamp (2021) - In the works: Patient and public involvement and engagement in healthcare decision-making - Health Expectations, 24 (6), 1903-1904 - doi: 10.1111/hex.13339 - [link]
Health, Risk & Society
- Start date approval
- maart 2023
- End date approval
- maart 2026
- Place
- LONDON
- Description
- Editorial board
Research Network 22, European Sociological Associa
- Start date approval
- maart 2023
- End date approval
- maart 2026
- Place
- PARIJS
Dorpsbelang Skingen-Slappeterp
- Start date approval
- mei 2023
- End date approval
- mei 2026
- Place
- SKINGEN
- Description
- Penningmeester dorpsbelang
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master - jaar 2
- Year Level
- master - jaar 2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4030MD
Governance and Strategy
- Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4008MD
Governance and Strategy
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4008MV
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4030MV
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4007MV
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4007MD