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Anna Galazka

Dr Anna Galazka

Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation

Ysgol Busnes Caerdydd

Email
GalazkaA@caerdydd.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 76736
Campuses
Adeilad Aberconwy, Ystafell Room F22b, Rhodfa Colum, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
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I am a social scientist with an interest in alternative healthcare organizing and a researcher in the field of organizational and sociological aspects of care. I am fascinated by the development, nature and role of social relations in hidden and stigmatised communities and their potential to fuel social innovation for individual empowerment and collective emancipation. After completing my doctorate on organising healthcare with a focus on clinician-patient relations in wound healing at Cardiff Business School, I worked as a post-doctoral research consultant at the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre in collaboration with Cardiff Business School. I now work as a Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation where I teach research methods and engage with social theory, sociological literature on stigma and medical professions and critical realist methodologies.

My research interests oscillate around an idea that in an ageing society, communities must cultivate their social fabric to maintain health and well-being. Looking at social innovation in community care, I study how Lindsay Leg Clubs, partnerships between people with leg problems, community volunteers and nurses, generate social value. In my post doctoral service evaluation of UK Leg Clubs I demonstrated that creating a sense of community, fostering collective learning, safeguarding health and offering older volunteers spaces for continued societal functioning are meaningful generators of social health. I have disseminated my findings at public university lectures conferences and through podcasts during the Global Public Health Weeks and via Health Shared. I also lecture on the MSc Wound Healing and Tissue Repair at Cardiff University School of Medicine. Being the first to put Leg Clubs on the social science research agenda, I aspire to become an interdisciplinary, translational researcher who solidifies the value of qualitative evidence in policy evaluation.

To learn more about my work with the Leg Clubs, take a look here: 

OUR RESEARCH IN REGARD TO PATIENT EXPERIENCES WITHIN A LEG CLUB SETTING PART 1

OUR RESEARCH IN REGARD TO PATIENT EXPERIENCES WITHIN A LEG CLUB® SETTING PART 2

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Research interests

Primary

  • dirty work
  • stigma
  • transformative power of positive relationships
  • community
  • reflexivity
  • social innovation
  • emancipation
  • professionalisation
  • wound healing medical work
  • qualitative research methods, including ethnography

Secondary

  • entrepreneurship
  • new ways of working and organising work with use of digital technologies
  • digitisation of global labour administration

Research grant applications

  • Spring 2021: Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Award: ‘Supporting women entrepreneurs in Wales through the Covid-19 crisis’
  • Winter 2021: CARBS Seedcorn Funding: ‘Conceptualising innovative community volunteering: an exploratory study of the Lindsay Leg Clubs’
  • Summer 2022; Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Award: ‘Scoping a digital communication solution for Lindsay Leg Clubs through user testing and co-production’

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I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advanced HE). I am currently teaching on research methods modules that form part of the postgraduate training delivered to both taught and research students. I am a co-coordinator and co-leader on three modules that form part of the MSc Social Science Research Methods programme and a leader on the Healthcare Planning Dissertation module.

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Qualifications

PhD in Organisation Studies from the Cardiff Business School (2019)

MSc in Social Science Research Methods from Cardiff Business School (2013)

MSc in Management of Learning from Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (2011)

BSc in Human Resource Management from Cardiff Business School (2010)

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