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Dr Anna Galazka
Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
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
Publication
2024
- Galazka, A. M. and Jenkins, S. 2024. Doing essential ‘dirty work’: Making visible the emotion management skills in gendered care work. In: Helfen, M. et al. eds. Essentiality of Work. Research in the Sociology of Work Vol. 36. Emerald, pp. 11-38., (10.1108/S0277-283320240000036002)
- Galazka, A. M. and Al-Amoudi, I. 2024. Managing stigma together: relationality in the wound clinic. Organization (10.1177/13505084241230808)
2023
- Galazka, A. M. 2023. Everyday dirty work: invisibility, communication, and immigrant labor by Alvarez, W. [Book Review]. Work and Occupations 50(4), pp. 580-582. (10.1177/07308884231151627)
- Galazka, A. M. and Wallace, J. 2023. Challenging the ‘dirty worker’ – ‘clean client’ dichotomy: Conceptualising worker-client relations in dirty work. International Journal of Management Reviews 25(4), pp. 707-724. (10.1111/ijmr.12330)
- McIntyre, N., Finlayson, K., Galazka, A., Lindsay, E. and Renyi, R. 2023. The Lindsay Leg Club® Well Leg Regime: an evidence review. Journal of Wound Care 32(10), pp. 642-648. (10.12968/jowc.2023.32.10.642)
- Galazka, A. 2023. Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 12(2), pp. 209-222. (10.1108/JOE-01-2023-0001)
- Galazka, A. and O'Mahoney, J. 2023. The socio-materiality of dirty work: a critical realist perspective. Work, Employment and Society 37(2), pp. 432-448. (10.1177/09500170211011321)
- Verbuyst, R. and Galazka, A. M. 2023. Introducing ‘navigating failure in ethnography’: a forum about failure in ethnographic research. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 12(1), pp. 61-75. (10.1108/JOE-10-2022-0027)
- Galazka, A. 2023. Social models in leg care: understanding Lindsay Leg Club volunteering. Wounds UK 19(1), pp. 11-16.
- Galazka, A. 2023. The good late life: a practice-based view of alternative volunteering in the Lindsay Leg Clubs. Presented at: Management, Employment and Organisation Section Research Conference, Cardiff, 19 June 2023.
- Galazka, A. 2023. Clean work or dirty work? An autoethnography of litter picking in the climate emergency. Presented at: 16th Annual Ethnography Symposium, Amsterdam, 23-25 August 2023.
- Galazka, A. 2023. The good life: a practice-based view of alternative volunteering in Lindsay Leg Clubs. Presented at: European Group of Organisation Studies. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, 6-8 July 2023.
2022
- Crispin, F., Holloway, S. and Galazka, A. 2022. Members’ experience of Lindsay Leg Clubs®: a thematic metasynthesis of published narratives in qualitative research. Journal of Wound Management 23(3), pp. 150-159. (10.35279/jowm2022.23.03)
- Galazka, A. M. 2022. Putting a spotlight on the Lindsay Leg Club volunteers. Wounds UK 18(4), pp. 88-89.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Ethnographic service evaluation of the social value of the Leg Club model in wound management. Presented at: World Union of Wound Healing Societies Congress ‘Global Healing Changing Lives, Abu Dhabi, 1-5 March 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Understanding ‘field’ in ethnographic fieldwork: a place of investigation, a set of relations, or a relational configuration. Presented at: 15th Annual Ethnography Symposium, Suffolk, 24-26 August 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Community volunteering to heal social wounds post-Covid- 19: A responsible innovation perspective. Presented at: Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare Conference, Birmingham, 12-13 September 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Social models of leg-care post Covid-19. Presented at: Wounds UK conference, Harrogate, 7-9 November 2022.
2021
- Galazka, A. 2021. Understanding ICT use in labour administration: taking stock. In: Heyes, J. and Rychly, L. eds. The Governance of Labour Administration: Reforms, Innovations and Challenges. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA; Geneva, Switzerland: Edward Elgar & ILO, pp. 68-89., (10.4337/9781802203158)
- Galazka, A. and Prosser, T. 2021. Social partners’ bargaining strategies in Germany and Spain after the introduction of the Euro: a morphogenetic perspective on corporate agency. European Journal of Industrial Relations 27(3), pp. 289-306. (10.1177/0959680120970755)
- Galazka, A. 2021. An audit of the relational database within the Leg Club network. Presented at: TVS 2021 Virtual - The Conference, Virtual, 23 September 2021.
- O'Mahoney, J., Sturdy, A. and Galazka, A. 2021. Acquiring knowledge through management consultancy: national culture perspective. Journal of Management and Organization (10.1017/jmo.2021.46)
- Galazka, A. M., Edwards, T. and Harding, K. 2021. Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: the application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs. Journal of Critical Realism 20(3), pp. 280-299. (10.1080/14767430.2021.1918969)
- McIntyre, N., Galazka, A., Lindsay, E., Bawden, R. and Renyi, R. 2021. A relational database within the Leg Club Network: an audit. International Wound Journal 18(2), pp. 233-241. (10.1111/iwj.13522)
- Galazka, A. 2021. Bennet, J.S. Managing Diabetes: The cultural politics of disease [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(2), pp. 545-546. (10.1111/1467-9566.13083)
- Galazka, A. 2021. Moore, M.D. Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine. Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-war Britain [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(2), pp. 548-549. (10.1111/1467-9566.13197)
- Galazka, A. 2021. From ‘dirty wound care’ to ‘woundology’: a professional project for wound healing clinicians. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(1), pp. 99-115. (10.1111/1467-9566.13200)
- Lindsay, E. and Galazka, A. 2021. The importance of compassionate communication in paediatric practice: Lessons from the whole person approach to wound care and management. In: Ciprandi, G. ed. Neonatal and pediatric wound care. Torino: Edizioni Minerva Medica, pp. 510-519.
2020
- Brooke, C., Galazka, A. and Spencer-Veale, D. 2020. Leg Clubs and the coronavirus: Keeping a community feel in times of physical distancing. British Journal of Community Nursing 34(4), pp. 69-70.
- Galazka, A. 2020. Evidence of social value in the Lindsay Leg Club network: an evaluation. British Journal of Nursing 29(20), pp. S12-S13.
- Galazka, A. 2020. Leg Clubs re-entering a post-lockdown world: an update. British Journal of Community Nursing 25(Supple), pp. S41-S42. (10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.Sup9.S41)
- Galazka, A. M., Beynon, M. and Edwards, T. 2020. Index of information and communication technology use in labour administration: its need, its pertinence and its potential use. International Review of Administrative Sciences 86(2), pp. 240-260. (10.1177/0020852318769142)
2019
- Galazka, A. M. 2019. Beyond patient empowerment: clinician-patient advocacy partnerships in wound healing. British Journal of Healthcare Management 25(6), article number: 30. (10.12968/bjhc.2019.0030)
- Galazka, A. M. 2019. Lindsay Leg Clubs: how social infrastructure can improve wound healing. Innov-age Magazine 24, pp. 16-16.
2018
- Galazka, A. M. 2018. Managing stigma: A relational analysis of wound healing in the UK. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Articles
- Galazka, A. M. and Al-Amoudi, I. 2024. Managing stigma together: relationality in the wound clinic. Organization (10.1177/13505084241230808)
- Galazka, A. M. 2023. Everyday dirty work: invisibility, communication, and immigrant labor by Alvarez, W. [Book Review]. Work and Occupations 50(4), pp. 580-582. (10.1177/07308884231151627)
- Galazka, A. M. and Wallace, J. 2023. Challenging the ‘dirty worker’ – ‘clean client’ dichotomy: Conceptualising worker-client relations in dirty work. International Journal of Management Reviews 25(4), pp. 707-724. (10.1111/ijmr.12330)
- McIntyre, N., Finlayson, K., Galazka, A., Lindsay, E. and Renyi, R. 2023. The Lindsay Leg Club® Well Leg Regime: an evidence review. Journal of Wound Care 32(10), pp. 642-648. (10.12968/jowc.2023.32.10.642)
- Galazka, A. 2023. Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 12(2), pp. 209-222. (10.1108/JOE-01-2023-0001)
- Galazka, A. and O'Mahoney, J. 2023. The socio-materiality of dirty work: a critical realist perspective. Work, Employment and Society 37(2), pp. 432-448. (10.1177/09500170211011321)
- Verbuyst, R. and Galazka, A. M. 2023. Introducing ‘navigating failure in ethnography’: a forum about failure in ethnographic research. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 12(1), pp. 61-75. (10.1108/JOE-10-2022-0027)
- Galazka, A. 2023. Social models in leg care: understanding Lindsay Leg Club volunteering. Wounds UK 19(1), pp. 11-16.
- Crispin, F., Holloway, S. and Galazka, A. 2022. Members’ experience of Lindsay Leg Clubs®: a thematic metasynthesis of published narratives in qualitative research. Journal of Wound Management 23(3), pp. 150-159. (10.35279/jowm2022.23.03)
- Galazka, A. M. 2022. Putting a spotlight on the Lindsay Leg Club volunteers. Wounds UK 18(4), pp. 88-89.
- Galazka, A. and Prosser, T. 2021. Social partners’ bargaining strategies in Germany and Spain after the introduction of the Euro: a morphogenetic perspective on corporate agency. European Journal of Industrial Relations 27(3), pp. 289-306. (10.1177/0959680120970755)
- O'Mahoney, J., Sturdy, A. and Galazka, A. 2021. Acquiring knowledge through management consultancy: national culture perspective. Journal of Management and Organization (10.1017/jmo.2021.46)
- Galazka, A. M., Edwards, T. and Harding, K. 2021. Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: the application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs. Journal of Critical Realism 20(3), pp. 280-299. (10.1080/14767430.2021.1918969)
- McIntyre, N., Galazka, A., Lindsay, E., Bawden, R. and Renyi, R. 2021. A relational database within the Leg Club Network: an audit. International Wound Journal 18(2), pp. 233-241. (10.1111/iwj.13522)
- Galazka, A. 2021. Bennet, J.S. Managing Diabetes: The cultural politics of disease [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(2), pp. 545-546. (10.1111/1467-9566.13083)
- Galazka, A. 2021. Moore, M.D. Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine. Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-war Britain [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(2), pp. 548-549. (10.1111/1467-9566.13197)
- Galazka, A. 2021. From ‘dirty wound care’ to ‘woundology’: a professional project for wound healing clinicians. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(1), pp. 99-115. (10.1111/1467-9566.13200)
- Brooke, C., Galazka, A. and Spencer-Veale, D. 2020. Leg Clubs and the coronavirus: Keeping a community feel in times of physical distancing. British Journal of Community Nursing 34(4), pp. 69-70.
- Galazka, A. 2020. Evidence of social value in the Lindsay Leg Club network: an evaluation. British Journal of Nursing 29(20), pp. S12-S13.
- Galazka, A. 2020. Leg Clubs re-entering a post-lockdown world: an update. British Journal of Community Nursing 25(Supple), pp. S41-S42. (10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.Sup9.S41)
- Galazka, A. M., Beynon, M. and Edwards, T. 2020. Index of information and communication technology use in labour administration: its need, its pertinence and its potential use. International Review of Administrative Sciences 86(2), pp. 240-260. (10.1177/0020852318769142)
- Galazka, A. M. 2019. Beyond patient empowerment: clinician-patient advocacy partnerships in wound healing. British Journal of Healthcare Management 25(6), article number: 30. (10.12968/bjhc.2019.0030)
- Galazka, A. M. 2019. Lindsay Leg Clubs: how social infrastructure can improve wound healing. Innov-age Magazine 24, pp. 16-16.
Book sections
- Galazka, A. M. and Jenkins, S. 2024. Doing essential ‘dirty work’: Making visible the emotion management skills in gendered care work. In: Helfen, M. et al. eds. Essentiality of Work. Research in the Sociology of Work Vol. 36. Emerald, pp. 11-38., (10.1108/S0277-283320240000036002)
- Galazka, A. 2021. Understanding ICT use in labour administration: taking stock. In: Heyes, J. and Rychly, L. eds. The Governance of Labour Administration: Reforms, Innovations and Challenges. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA; Geneva, Switzerland: Edward Elgar & ILO, pp. 68-89., (10.4337/9781802203158)
- Lindsay, E. and Galazka, A. 2021. The importance of compassionate communication in paediatric practice: Lessons from the whole person approach to wound care and management. In: Ciprandi, G. ed. Neonatal and pediatric wound care. Torino: Edizioni Minerva Medica, pp. 510-519.
Conferences
- Galazka, A. 2023. The good late life: a practice-based view of alternative volunteering in the Lindsay Leg Clubs. Presented at: Management, Employment and Organisation Section Research Conference, Cardiff, 19 June 2023.
- Galazka, A. 2023. Clean work or dirty work? An autoethnography of litter picking in the climate emergency. Presented at: 16th Annual Ethnography Symposium, Amsterdam, 23-25 August 2023.
- Galazka, A. 2023. The good life: a practice-based view of alternative volunteering in Lindsay Leg Clubs. Presented at: European Group of Organisation Studies. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, 6-8 July 2023.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Ethnographic service evaluation of the social value of the Leg Club model in wound management. Presented at: World Union of Wound Healing Societies Congress ‘Global Healing Changing Lives, Abu Dhabi, 1-5 March 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Understanding ‘field’ in ethnographic fieldwork: a place of investigation, a set of relations, or a relational configuration. Presented at: 15th Annual Ethnography Symposium, Suffolk, 24-26 August 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Community volunteering to heal social wounds post-Covid- 19: A responsible innovation perspective. Presented at: Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare Conference, Birmingham, 12-13 September 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2022. Social models of leg-care post Covid-19. Presented at: Wounds UK conference, Harrogate, 7-9 November 2022.
- Galazka, A. 2021. An audit of the relational database within the Leg Club network. Presented at: TVS 2021 Virtual - The Conference, Virtual, 23 September 2021.
Thesis
- Galazka, A. M. 2018. Managing stigma: A relational analysis of wound healing in the UK. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
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'
Teaching
I teach about reseach methods and research ethics on a range of postgraduate programmes and modules.
I am a module leader for:
- BST214 Qualitative Research Methods
- BST216 Advanced Issues in Management, Employment and Organisational Research
- BST690 Healthcare Planning Dissertation
I act as a module contributor on:
- BST703 Developing Core Research Skills
I also deliver teaching on the following programmes and modules:
- Executive MBA
- NHS Diploma in Healthcare Planning
- MSc Public Leadership Research Methods
- BST456 Academic Skills and Research Methods
- MSc Human Resource Management
I am Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advanced HE).
Biography
Academic employment
Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, December 2020 – present
Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Leadership, Liverpool John Moores University Business School, September 2020 – December 2020
Post-doctoral Research Consultant, Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, September 2019 – August 2020
Co-investigator on “Covid-19: The effects of the pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Wales” in collaboration with the Welsh Government and University of South Wales, August – November 2020
University Teacher, Cardiff Business School, October 2018 – September 2020
Academic 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)
Supervisions
Current supervision
Jill Jones Jones
Research student
Contact Details
GalazkaA@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 76736
Aberconway Building, Room Room F22b, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 76736
Aberconway Building, Room Room F22b, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU