
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- r.bal@eshpm.eur.nl
Profile
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..
- Koray Parmaksiz, Elizabeth Pisani, Roland Bal & Maarten Kok (2022) - A systematic review of pooled procurement of medicines and vaccines: identifying elements of success - Globalization and Health, 18 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12992-022-00847-z
- Charlotte Kröger, Eva van Baarle, Guy Widdershoven, Roland Bal & Jan Willem Weenink (2022) - Combining rules and dialogue: exploring stakeholder perspectives on preventing sexual boundary violations in mental health and disability care organizations - BMC Medical Ethics, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12910-022-00786-9 - [link]
- Erna Scholtes, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Roland Bal, Nada Akrouh & Rik Wehrens (2022) - Verhalen vertellen: Borstkankerzorg verbeteren door Patiëntervaringsverhalen te benutten
- Robert Borst, Rik Wehrens & Roland Bal (2022) - Sustaining Knowledge Translation Practices: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis - International Journal of Health Policy and Management - doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6424
- Robert A.J. Borst, Rik Wehrens, Roland Bal & Maarten Olivier Kok (2022) - From sustainability to sustaining work: What do actors do to sustain knowledge translation platforms? - Social Science and Medicine, 296 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114735 - [link]
- Marjolijn Heerings, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Mieke Cardol & Roland Bal (2022) - Ask us! Adjusting experience-based codesign to be responsive to people with intellectual disabilities, serious mental illness or older persons receiving support with independent living - Health Expectations - doi: 10.1111/hex.13436 - [link]
- Martijn Felder, Syb Kuijper, Pieterbas Lalleman, Roland Bal & Iris Wallenburg (2022) - The rise of the partisan nurse and the challenge of moving beyond an impasse in the (re)organization of Dutch nursing work - Journal of Professions and Organization, 9 (1), 20-37 - doi: 10.1093/jpo/joac002 - [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]
- Marjolein Moleman, Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Roland Bal & Teun Zuiderent-Jerak (2022) - Evidence-basing for quality improvement; bringing clinical practice guidelines closer to their promise of improving care practices - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - doi: 10.1111/jep.13659 - [link]
- Rik Wehrens, Lieke Oldenhof & Roland Bal (2022) - Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach - Administration and Society, 1-31 - doi: 10.1177/00953997211069326 - [link]
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- GW4555M
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master - jaar 1
- Course Code
- GW4007MD
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- GW4007MV
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Course Code
- GWAVV-21
Healthcare Ethics
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master, master
- Course Code
- GW4564M
Comparative Health Policy
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- GW4574M
Governing Healthy Cities
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- GW4565M
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Course Code
- GW101K
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Course Code
- GW103K
Integration project
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Course Code
- GW103I
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Course Code
- GWAVV-20
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- GW4030MV