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Co-production of care and recovery

  • Ditte Andersen

    Professor MSO, PhD, Professor mso

    +45 27 57 00 71
    den@vive.dk

In this research project, Ditte Andersen (PI) and Sine Kirkegaard (post doc) outline a micro-sociology of cross-sectoral caring arrangements.

As humans, we depend on care from birth, and we journey through life as recipients as well as providers of care. Collective crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and personal hardships such as mental illness tend to exacerbate our needs for care, and we often rely on others to cope and recover. This research project advances a micro-sociological understanding of the reciprocal processes of caring arrangements, as enacted through social interactions situated in local contexts.

Our research produces new knowledge about the co-production of care and recovery enacted across public welfare sectors, NGOs and informal civil society in Denmark. The project encompasses two tracks of research: Track 1 focuses on the co-production of care during collective crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, while track 2 studies the co-production of recovery in the wake of personal hardship related to mental illness.

Two tracks of research

Track 1: Co-production of care during the COVID-19 pandemic

The sudden advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a need of help and care for many citizens, and at the same time the collective crises spurred a widespread desire to ‘do something’ and participate in mutual aid practices. The pandemic disrupted the ordinary caring arrangement in the Danish welfare state. Usually, much care in Denmark is provided by professionals working in public welfare systems, and when some of this care provision stopped due to the corona lockdown volunteers stepped in to take over caring responsibilities. In track 1, we study how citizens experienced and enacted the provision and reception of care in the first phases of the pandemic during the most extensive lockdown so far.

Track 2: Co-production of recovery in mental health care

When people experience mental illness, they engage in processes of recovery where they try to find new ways to live satisfying, hopeful and productive lives. The recovery process often involves participation in various caring arrangements with relatives and professionals. Thus, recovery is cultivated through interactions and collaborations with others rather than individually in social isolation. In track 2, we study how people with mental illness co-produce recovery in collaboration with peers, relatives and professionals from the mental health care services.

VIVE – The Danish Centre for Social Science Research provides knowledge that contributes to developing the welfare society and strengthening quality development, efficiency enhancement and governance in the public sector, both in municipalities, regions and nationally.
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