Our Work
Ethics • Equity and Justice • Critical Scholarship
Our vision is to continue to nurture ETCHwork as space to incubate new ideas, amplify the good work already being done in our networks, and provide opportunities for continued connection across our disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
We are currently:
- Collaboratively working on research projects in our intersections of ethics, technology, change, and healthcare work
- Combining resources to strategically invite key thinkers, stimulating creativity across our shared and intersecting networks
- Creating opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations across our networks of graduate students
With this group, we strive to create a creative, collaborative, energetic space concerned with the best of what healthcare could be in an increasingly technological world.
Current Projects
Digital futures of care work: Examining sociotechnical imaginaries of integrated care (funded by Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada: Insight Grant)
Health information systems and matters of care: A meta-ethnography on the effects of health information systems on carers’ identities (funded by AMS Healthcare Small Project Grants)
Workplace learning and the future of work: Exploring the cognitive, practical, and ethical dimensions of incorporating new technologies into public sectors (funded by New Frontiers in Research Fund: Exploration Grant)
Completed
ETCHwork members participated in an international symposium in June 2024: Setting the agenda for a new politics of healthcare professionalism
Discussion papers have been published on various special topics.
ETCHwork members led a symposium at the international conference in April 2024 Beyond the hype: Emerging technologies and innovation in healthcare organisations.