GBKB offers customized solutions to your unique knowledge and strategy needs by making use of an extensive network of skilled and experienced knowledge solutions associates... My research interests are related to the sociology of knowledge, broadly conceived. My more specific interests include social theory; health and illness; mental health and illness; social organization of knowledge; the sociology of quantification, statistics, and classification; surveillance; and governance... My prior work has dealt with knowledge and governance by examining the social construction of categories of "good" and "bad" homeless people in attempts to govern public behaviour; and the classification of "mentally ill" individuals that led to their increased institutional control in "non"-institutional environments. I have been trained in a variety of research methods and methodologies including discourse analysis, grounded theory, institutional ethnography, social network analysis, statistics (e.g.,..
Also known as: GB Knowledge Brokerage and Research Services