Mímir Research

I am a sociologist trained at the University of Chicago, where my research examined how clinical teams in hospital settings respond to the death of patients. Using interviews and ethnographic observation, I studied how dying disrupts the routines of specialist care, how clinicians experience and interpret that disruption, and how organizations reconstitute their practices in its wake. That work gave me a detailed understanding of how healthcare organizations actually function — not as they appear in policy documents or org charts, but as lived, meaning-saturated institutions under pressure.

That research foundation is complemented by substantial quantitative experience working with large administrative datasets. I am comfortable with the full range of methods — interviews, ethnography, survey research, and administrative data analysis — and I know how to bring them together in ways that produce a more complete account than any single method can offer.

What Mímir Research brings to client engagements is interpretive depth: the ability to move between what your data shows and what your organization needs to understand in order to act on it. Most research firms can measure. Fewer can explain. The structural and humanistic perspective I bring to this work — grounded in the sociology of organizations, culture, and meaning — is what makes the difference between findings that describe a problem and findings that illuminate it.

I work with healthcare systems, academic medical centers, and human services organizations on questions of program evaluation, organizational culture, and implementation. If your organization is facing a problem that data has not resolved, I would like to hear about it.