Senior Researcher, Sociology

Sirpa Wrede, D.Soc.Sc. Docent (Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki) tel. +358 9 191 28424 fax +358 9 191 28485 sirpa.wredeAThelsinki.fi

Research fields:

• Sociology of work and occupations, especially professional groups in health and social care; professionalism, professional cultures and inequality
• Sociology of welfare policy, its role in professional governance
• Theories on professionalism and citizenship
• Sociology of health and health care
• Comparative research and qualitative comparative methods

Ongoing research projects:

• The new dynamics of professionalism within caring occupations. (Academy of Finland, 2003-2008)
• Mothers and Workers? Women’s Movements and the Gendered Development of Social Rights in Canada, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, 1870-1950 (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,  2006-2009)
• The position of immigrants in Finnish working life. (The Finnish Work Environment Fund, 2007-2008)

Professional history

• 1994 (1.4. -31.12.) Researcher, Dept of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University (Scholarship)
• 1995-1998 Researcher in the doctoral program Population, Health and Living Conditions administered by University of Helsinki placed at Dept of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University.
• 1999 Researcher, Dept of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University (Scholarship for participation in the research project The Evolution of Modern Maternity Care in Northern Europe and North America.)
• 1999 (fall term) Lecturer in social- and health policy, tf assistent, Tampere School of Public Health
• 2000 Researcher, Dept of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University (Scholarship)
• 2000 ( 1.7.-31.7 ) Lecturer (substitute) tf assistent, Åbo Akademi University
• 2001 Researcher, Dept of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University (Funded through the Academy of Finland project Service Professions in Transition.)
• 1.1.2002 - 31.7. 2002 Senior Lecturer (substitute) tf överassistent, Åbo Akademi University.
• 1.8.2002-31.7.2003 Researcher, Dept of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University (Funded through the Academy of Finland project Service Professions in Transition.)
• 1.8.2003-31.7.2008 Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland.
• 1.8.2008 - Senior Researcher,Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki

Recent and forthcoming publications (selected)

Recent and forthcoming publications (selected)

Recent and forthcoming publications (selected)

Scientific monographs
Wrede, S. (2001) Decentering Care for Mothers. The Politics of Midwifery and the Design of Finnish Maternity Services. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2001.

Books edited

1. DeVries, Raymond; Benoit, Cecilia; van Teijlingen, Edwin and Wrede, Sirpa (Eds.) (2001) Birth by Design. Pregnancy, Maternity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe. Routledge: New York. (Refereed and published in paperback, hardcover and as an eBook.)
2. Henriksson, L. & Wrede, S. (eds.) (2004) Hyvinvointityön ammatit. Gaudeamus, Helsinki.
3. Wrede, S. & Oinas, E. (eds.) (2006) Det sunda livets trånga ramar. Essäer om det socialt konstruerade könet. (The narrow frames of the healthy life. Essays on the social construction of gender.) SSKH Skrifter 22. Helsinki, Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan vid Helsingfors universitet.
4. Wrede, S., Henriksson, L., Høst, H., Johansson, S. & Dybbroe, B. (Eds.) Care Work in Crisis. Reclaiming the Nordic Ethos of Care. Studentlitteratur, Lund, 2008.
   

Refereed articles

1. Wrede, S., Benoit C. & Sandall J. (2001) The state and birth/the state of birth: maternal health policy in three countries.  In: Birth by Design, p. 28- 50. Eds. DeVries, Raymond; Benoit, Cecilia; van Teijlingen, Edwin and Wrede, Sirpa. Routledge: New York, 2001.
2. Nieminen, S., Henriksson, L. & Wrede, S. (2004) Periferian isännistä terveyspoliittisiksi toimijoiksi: kunnallismieskasvatus osana maaseudun kansanterveystyön rakentamista. Sosiologia Vol. 41:1;14–27.
3. DeVries, R., Wrede, S., van Teijlingen E., Benoit, C. & Declercq, E. (2004) Making Maternity Care: The Consequences of Culture for Health Care Systems.  In: Comparing Cultures. Dimensions of Culture in a Comparative Perspective. Henk Vinken, Joseph Soeters & Peter Ester (Eds.), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden. 2004, pp.209-231.
4. Benoit, C., Wrede, S., Bourgeault, I., Sandall, J., DeVries, R., van Teijlingen, E. (2005) Understanding the Social Organisation of Maternity Care Systems: Midwifery as a Touchstone. Sociology of Health and Illness Vol. 27, No.6, pp. 722-737. (Also published in a separate SHI monograph).
5. Wrede, S. and Henriksson, L. (2005) Finnish home care in transition: the changing terms of welfare service work. In: Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State. Continuity and Change. Hanne Marlene Dahl and Tine Rask Eriksen (Eds.) Aldershot, Ashgate, pp.62-79.
6. Henriksson, L., Wrede, S. and Burau, V. (2006) Understanding professional projects in welfare service work: revival of old professionalism? Gender, Work and Organization Vol. 14, No.2, pp. 174-192.
7. Wrede, S., Benoit, C., Bourgeault, I., van Teijlingen, E., Sandall, J. & De Vries, R. (2006) Decentred comparative research: Context sensitive analysis of maternal health care. Social Science & Medicine Vol. 63, No. 11, pp. 2986-2997.
8. Wrede, S. (2008) Unpacking Gendered Professional Power in the Welfare State. Equal Opportunities International 27(1), 19-33.
9. Wrede, S. (2008) Educating generalists: the flexibilisation of Finnish auxiliary nursing and the dilemma of professional identity. In: Rethinking Governance, Remaking Professions: International Directions in Health Care. Ellen Kuhlmann & Mike Saks (eds.) The Polity Press, Bristol, pp. 127-140.
10. Wrede, S. (2008) Miten globalisaatio haastaa terveydenhuollon protektionismin? Ammattilaisten kansainvälinen liikkuvuus ja ammattijärjestöjen strategiat. In: Going global – ay-liikkeen menestysresepti globaalissa ajassa? M. Helander (ed.) SoPhi, Jyväskylä, pp.249-282.
11. Bourgeault, I., Kuhlmann, E., Neiterman, E. & Wrede, S (2008) : “How to Effectively Implement Optimal Skill Mix and Why.” Policy Brief Series. Health Evidence Network – European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. (Available also electronically at http://www.euro.who.int/document/hsm/8_hsc08_ePB_11.pdf ). Translated and simultaneously published in French, German and Russian.

Other articles (selected)

• Wrede, S. (2000) Suomalainen terveydenhuolto: jänniteitä ja murroksia. In: Karvonen, S.;  Kangas, I. and Lillrank, A. (Eds.) Terveyssosiologian suuntauksia, Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2000, pp. 189-205
• Wrede, S. (2003) Kenen neuvola? Kansanterveystyön ”naisten huoneen” rakennuspuut. In: Helén, I. and Jauho, M. (Eds.) Kansalaisuus ja kansanterveys. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, pp. 58-86.
• Wrede, S. & Henriksson, L. (2004) Kahden kerroksen väkeä. Kotihoidon ammatillinen uusjako. In: Hyvinvointityön ammatit. Henriksson, L. &  Wrede, S. (Eds.) Helsinki, Gaudeamus, pp. 210-234.
• Wrede, S., Henriksson, L., Høst, H. & Dybbroe, B. (2008) Care work and the competing rationalities of public policy. In: Care Work in Crisis. Wrede, S., Henriksson, L., Høst, H., Johansson, S. & Dybbroe, B. (eds.) Studentlitteratur, Lund, pp.15-37.
• Henriksson, L. & Wrede, S. (2008) The making of medico-managerial care work culture in public home care for the elderly. In: Care Work in Crisis. Wrede, S., Henriksson, L., Høst, H., Johansson, S. & Dybbroe, B. (eds.) Studentlitteratur, Lund, pp.131-152.
• Tainio, L and Wrede, S. (2008) Practical nurses’ work role and workplace ethos in an era of austerity. In: Care Work in Crisis. Wrede, S., Henriksson, L., Høst, H., Johansson, S. & Dybbroe, B. (eds.) Studentlitteratur, Lund, pp.177-197.

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• TUHTI - research projects
• JULKI - publications
• ASTI - expertice
• MUTI - academic activities
• YHTI - non-academic activities of social significance