Kirstie McAllum Editor

Stephanie Fox has studied interprofessional communication and collaboration in healthcare contexts for over 15 years. Her work focuses on collective sensemaking, narrative, leadership, team communication, and the navigation of professional hierarchies in collaborative interactions.

Kirstie McAllum’s research focuses on patterns of collaborative and conflict-laden communication when groups with varied or contested professional statuses work together (e.g., volunteers/paid staff; family caregivers/healthcare professionals; frontline personal careworkers/healthcare workers with specialist training).

Leena Mikkola has studied interpersonal communication both in client-provider and workplace relationships in social and health care contexts for over 15 years. Recently, her research interest has been in health care management teams and interprofessional health care teams.