Diane Burns
Sheffield University Management School & the Centre for Care
Diane Burns
I am head of the Organisation Research Studies Cluster at Sheffield University Management School. I hold a visiting research position at the University of Eastern Finland and am a Trustee of the British Academy Learning Society of the Study for Organising Healthcare.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | United States; |
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| Topics | Ageing in place; Artificial Intelligence; Care economy; Care Homes; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care outcomes; Care work and migration; Co-production in LTC; Costs of LTC; Data catalogues; Economics of LTC; Ethics and care; Financing LTC; Gender and care; Home/domiciliary care; LTC Workforce; New models of care; Person-centered care; Provider sector; Public procurement; Quality of care; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Shaping LTC markets and provider behaviour; Social Innovation in LTC; Technology and LTC; Workforce capability; Workforce pay and conditions; |
| Methods | Case studies; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Co-production methods; Document analysis; Economic evaluation; Ethnography; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Interviews; Knowledge-exchange; Machine learning; Participatory research methods; Qualitative studies; Research ethics; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Training materials; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Care home markets and regulation; Economics of Long-Term Care; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Social Care Reform in England; Technology and Long-Term Care; Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/management/people/academic-staff/weo/diane-burns |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-7964-6319 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yyTBR54AAAAJ&hl=en |
| Other 1 | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/organisation-studies; |
| Research interests | My research interests broadly concern the organising of older people’s social care, including power asymmetries within the organisation and management of care and their effects for citizens, financial stability of provider organisations and care quality; new models of homecare and AI-driven technology; care workforce and job quality. |
| Key publications | Burns, D., Hamblin, K., Fisher, D., Goodlad, Cate. (2023) Is it time for job quality? Conceptualising temporal arrangements in new models of homecare. Sociology of Health and Illness D Burns, L Cowie, J Earle, P Folkman, J Froud, P Hyde, S Johal, IR Jones, … (2016) Where does the money go? Financialised chains and the crisis in residential care CRESC Public Interest Report March
Burns, D., Hyde, P., Killett, A. (2016). How financial cutbacks affect the quality of jobs and care for the elderly. Work and Employment Relations in Healthcare. Industrial Labor Relations Review, 69, 991-1061. Killett, A., Burns, D., Kelly, F. Brooker, D. Bowes, A. La Fontaine, J. Latham, I. Wilson, M. O’Neill, M. (2016). Digging deep: How organizational culture affects care home residents’ experiences. Ageing and Society, 36(1) 160-88. Burns, D., Hyde, P., Killett, A. (2013). Wicked problems or wicked people? Reconceptualising institutional abuse. Sociology of Health and Illness, 35(4) 514-28. |