MAGNUS NILSSON - Visiting Postgraduate Student

Magnus, who is visiting the sociology department at University of Surrey (c/o Nicola Green and Nina Wakeford) and the INCITE group from mid-August till the beginning of November 2006, is pursuing his PhD at the Computer Science department at Roskilde University, Denmark. With an interdisciplinary background (philosophy, BA and information technology, MSc) and an interest in healthcare work and technology, he is researching the work of mobile home-care workers (in Denmark). He focuses on the impact of various information technologies (for scheduling and classifying needs) in a work setting dominated by care-centred decisions, and on understanding the mobile and temporal dimensions of the care work. His research is based on ethnographic fieldwork and his research strategy is oriented towards a grounded theory approach. His work is funded by the Danish Research Councils’ Program on IT research through its funding of the Healthcare IT project.

PAPERS/ PRESENTATIONS

Nilsson, M. and Hertzum, M. (2005): "Negotiated Rhythms of Mobile Work: Time, Place, and Work Schedules". In K. Schmidt, M. Pendergast, M. Ackerman, and G. Mark (eds.), Proceedings of the GROUP '05 Conference on Supporting Group Work, (Sanibel Island, FL, November 6-9), pp. 148-157. ACM Press, New York.

Nilsson, M. (2005): "Workplace studies revisited". In Proceedings of the 28th Information systems Research seminar In Scandinavia (IRIS 28).(Kristiansand, Norway, August 6-9, 2005).

Nilsson, M. (2004): "Understanding Mobile and Distributed Work: The Case of Home Care Providing". Position paper presented at the CSCW 2004 Doctoral Colloquium, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2004.

magnusn [at] ruc.dk.