I am a sociologist interested in the political economy of health care provision, social and health policy analysis, organisational analysis, health system governance and normative attitudes to provision of public services. I have an MA in sociology (University of Warsaw) and a PhD in sociology and social policy (UCL).

I am a member of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning (PRUComm). As part of the PRUComm team I have been involved in a number of research projects exploring different aspects of commissioning clinical services in the English NHS. In the recent project we investigated an interplay between competition and cooperation mechanisms used for planning local health services. The paper published in Public Administration explored the NHS managers' attitudes towards the use of competitive and cooperative levers in day-to-day managerial practice and highlighted feedback loops between normative attitudes and institutional arrangements.

In my research I try to make connections between macro and micro level social processes and phenomena. I draw on new institutionalism, critical realism, human agency, social citizenship and other theoretical literature. I am also interested in the application of qualitative and mixed methods in the health research.