About
Mia Vabø, professor in sociology, has long experience as senior researcher and research director at the Centre for Welfare and Work life research (OsloMet). She has participated in numerous international research networks and research projects hereunder a Nordic cross-sectional survey among care workers (NORDCARE I and II). She has initiated and led a range of major research projects providing insight into the way in which care workers are living the consequences of shifting policies and modes of governance. Her current research interests centres around learning environment in health and social care work and –how political, cultural and institutional changes shape the context of day-to-day work and the personal learning environments of care workers.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Care-taking of elders Nursing Homes Interprofessional collaboration Care services Human service organization Governance trends Co-production Care ideology Reablement / restorative home care
Research groups
Research projects
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CONTEXT – Creating Integrated Person-centred Care in Different Settings
This project addresses how settings and contexts which enhance people-centred care can be created.
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Improving trust-based management in Nordic urban governance and management education
This project explores how ongoing management reforms are conceptualised and put into practice in two Nordic cities.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Vabø, Mia; Graff, Lea (2023). Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care. 13 p. International Journal of Social Welfare .
Vabø, Mia; Zechner, Minna; Stranz, Anneli; Graff, Lea; Sigurveig, Sigurdadottir (2022). Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?. Social Policy & Administration .
Øye, Christine; Norvoll, Reidun; Vabø, Mia
(2021).
'Keeping up appearances' - Negotiating identities of being fit in older age: A multi-site ethnographic study of daily life in contemporary day centres.
Ageing & Society
.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2833200
Elstad, Jon Ivar; Vabø, Mia
(2021).
Lack of recognition at the societal level heightens turnover considerations among Nordic eldercare workers: a quantitative analysis of survey data.
10 p.
BMC Health Services Research
.
Vol. 21.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06734-4
Drange, Ida; Vabø, Mia (2021). A Cross-sectional Study of Sustainable Employment in Nordic Eldercare. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies . Vol. 11.
Vabø, Mia; Drange, Ida; Amble, Nina
(2019).
Den vanskelige deltidsknuten en særnorsk utfordring som rammer unge helsefagarbeidere.
Fagbladet samfunn og økonomi
.
https://fagbladet.no/mapper/dokumenter/Deltidsknut...
Vabø, Mia (2019). Tverrprofesjonelt samarbeid i ulike styringskontekster- hverdagsrehabilitering som eksempel. Bjørkquist, Catharina; Fineide, Mona Jerndahl (Ed.). Organisasjonsperspektiv på samordning av helse- og velferdstjenester. Kapittel 3. p. 69-95. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Vabø, Mia
(2018).
Omsorgsarbeid i et hverdagslivsperspektiv.
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning
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Vol. 4.
https://www.idunn.no/sok#?q=Vab%C3%B8&j=tidsskrift...
Vabo, Signy Irene; Vabø, Mia (2016). Kontroll og tilsyn som kilder til kvalitetsforbedring :. Nordiske organisasjonsstudier . Vol. 18.
Vabø, Mia
(2015).
Changing Welfare Institutions as Sites of Contestation.
Engelstad, Fredrik; Hagelund, Anniken (Ed.).
Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way : Work, Welfare, and Institutional Change in Scandinavia. kapittel 13. p. 242-262.
De Gruyter Open.
http://hdl.handle.net/10642/3494
