“…This includes, but is not limited to, children (Bartfeld, 2003;Delany-Moretlwe et al, 2015;Kemp et al 2009), elderly people (Burns, 2009;Furlotte et al, 2012;Grenier et al, 2016) and people with substance use issues (Delany-Moretlwe 50 B. Bjerge, T. Eule, and K. Elmholdt: A Qualitative Gaze on how Mundane Public Administration Works Qualitative Studies 5(2), pp. 49-56 ©2018 et al, 2015Dohan, Schmidt, and Henderson, 2005;Forbess and James, 2014). These issues are well known, and in more general organisation studies literature the role of interstitial spaces or the betwixt-and-between spaces of formal organisations are recognised as critical for accomplishing organisational tasks (Kellogg, 2009;Furnari, 2014;Mumby, 2005), and yet, the way users may fall short in these spaces and the new trajectories that are re-negotiated or stabilised, are often black-boxed.…”