Anna Essén

Stockholm, Sweden Sweden

Researcher at Stockholm School of Economics

Education

See "Care of Essen" at instagram and annaessen@bloggspot.com. Currently, I am engaged in several research projects (see below). I am the principal investigator in the project "The quantification of care: on how numbers can open and close doors to healthcare improvement" (2014-2017). The project aims to conceptualize how the role of numerical measures change as numbers are transferred across situations and levels of social order. In particular, we seek to answer when and how the use of measures contribute to sameness and homogeinity (reduction in variability), and in what situations the use of measures contribute to diversity, innovation and heterogeneity (increased variability) in care ...