Christin Thea Wathne

About

Dr. Christin Thea Wathne is a senior researcher and leads the AFI Research Group Work, Management and Mastery (ALM). Wathne obtained a PhD in criminology from the University of Oslo in 2015. She has been working at the Work Research Institute (AFI) from 2001

Academic disciplines: Sociology, Management and leadership

Her interests includes: Policing and society, Leadership, Management, New Public Management, Goal - and Performance Management, Work environment, Working life research, Coping, Public Service Motivation, Organizational learning, Gender, Participation, Restructuring processes, Action research

Research groups

Work, Management and Mastery

Research projects

Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL)
This project will produce knowledge on the ways in which advances in artificial intelligence shape policing in different cultural, political, legal and economic contexts.
Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure (DigiWORK)
Big data and artificial intelligence are radically transforming the ways in which we work, are hired and fired, managed and led. This project investigates the effects of digital transformation of work on the Norwegian model of workplace democracy and tripartite collaboration.

Scientific publications

Wathne, Christin Thea (2024). Resistance to platformization: Palantir in the Norwegian police. Information, Communication & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2325533

Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Wathne, Christin Thea (2024). Resistance to platformization: Palantir in the Norwegian police. 19 p. Information, Communication & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2325533

Drange, Ida ; Falkum, Eivind ; Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Covid, work reorganisation and trust: the importance of employment relations. 18 p. Labour and Industry.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2023.2251220

Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Skjevrak, Pernille ; Wathne, Christin (2023). We Will Always Be Better Than a Spreadsheet: Intelligence Logic and Crime Prevention in Practice. European Journal of Policing Studies.
https://doi.org/10.5553/EJPS/2034760X2022001009

Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Talberg, Olav Niri; Wathne, Christin Thea (2022). False Reporting in the Norwegian Police: Analyzing Counter-productive Elements in Performance Management Systems. Criminal Justice Ethics. Vol. 41.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2022.2146321

Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Talberg, Niri; Wathne, Christin Thea (2022). Investigating at a Distance: Abstractness in Detective Work. Terpstra, Jan; Salet, Renze; Fyfe, Nicholas R. (Ed.). The abstract police: Critical reflections on contemporary change in police organisations. p. 103-130. Eleven International Publishing.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2021). Kvinners inntog i politiutdanningen i 1958. Ellefsen, Hjørdis Birgitte; Sørli, Vanja Lundgren; Egge, Marit (Ed.). Kunnskap for et tryggere samfunn? Norsk politiutdanning 1920-2020. p. 291-318. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Talberg, Olav Niri; Wathne, Christin Thea (2021). From discretion to standardization: Digitalization of the police organization. 15 p. International Journal of Police Science and Management. Vol. 1.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557211036554

Wathne, Christin Thea (2020). New Public Management and the Police Profession at Play. Criminal Justice Ethics. Vol. 39.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2020.1746106

Wathne, Christin Thea (2019). Welfare professionals in transformation – the case of police officers in Norway. Hvid, Helge Søndergaard; Falkum, Eivind (Ed.). Work and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries. Critical Perspectives on the World's Best Working Lives. p. 260-282. Routledge.

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Research reports

Hagen, Inger Marie ; Wathne, Christin Thea ; Gundhus, Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen; Haugland, Ingrid (2023). Sikkerhet og trygghet i vekterarbeid - Vekteres vilkår for oppgaveløsning. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3062976

Drange, Ida ; Falkum, Eivind ; Hansen, Per Bonde ; Dahl, Elin Moen ; Kuldova, Tereza Østbø ; Nordrik, Bitten ; Underthun, Anders ; Wathne, Christin Thea (2022). Måling og styring av arbeidstid – Medbestemmelsesbarometeret 2021. ISBN: 978-82-7609-433-6. 144 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2979000

Drange, Ida ; Falkum, Eivind ; Wathne, Christin Thea (2020). Arbeidsliv i en krevende tid. Medbestemmelse og medvirkning under koronapandemiens første fase. 35 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Kuldova, Tereza Østbø ; Drange, Ida ; Enehaug, Heidi ; Falkum, Eivind ; Underthun, Anders ; Wathne, Christin Thea (2020). Faglig skjønn under press: fire case-studier og en sammenfatning. ISBN: 978-82-7609-418-3. 91 p. Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet - OsloMet. Vol. 2020.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8928

Drange, Ida ; Falkum, Eivind ; Wathne, Christin Thea (2020). Styring, ledelse og tillit. Medbestemmelsesbarometeret 2020. ISBN: 978-82-7609-417-6. 90 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8834

Wathne, Christin Thea ; Talberg, Olav Niri; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2019). Nærpolitireformen og politiets relasjon til publikum. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8915

Falkum, Eivind ; Hansen, Per Bonde ; Ingelsrud, Mari Holm ; Wathne, Christin Thea ; Nordrik, Bitten ; Drange, Ida (2019). Medbestemmelsesbarometeret 2019. 72 p. Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8909

Drange, Ida ; Falkum, Eivind ; Nordrik, Bitten ; Wathne, Christin Thea (2017). Arbeidslivsrelasjoner i endring. Medbestemmelsesbarometeret 2017. 26 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Ellingsen, Dag ; Underthun, Anders ; Wathne, Christin Thea ; Ingelsrud, Mari Holm (2016). Jakten på den bærekraftige fleksibiliteten. Typologier over ansatte i bemanningsbransjen. 88 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Senter-for-velferds-og-

Wathne, Christin Thea ; Solberg, Anne Grethe ; Madslien, Ida (2016). Fra ord til handling. Hvordan oppnå kjønnsbalanse i ledelse?. ISBN: 9788276093827. 68 p. Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet.
http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Senter-for-velferds-og-

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Dissemination

Kuldova, Tereza Østbø ; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Wathne, Christin Thea (2024). Edited volume teaser: Policing and Intelligence in the Big Data Era: Towards New Critical Perspectives on Algorithmic Governance (Volume I and Volume II). Final conference: Algorithmic Governance & Cultures of Policing. OsloMet, AFI & University of Oslo.
https://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english/research/event

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Hvilken plass har ansatte i utforming av styringssystemer og digitalisering, og hvordan påvirkes demokratiet på arbeidsplassen?. Samling for lederne tilknyttet Politiets Fellesforbund i Møre og Romsdal. Arbeidsmiljøundersøkelsen og Politiforums siste funn og oppslag om fryktkultur. . Politiets Fellesforbund i Møre og Romsdal.

Gundhus, Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen; Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Digitalisering, (yrkes)kulturer og ledelse i politiet. Forskerseminar om Kultur og ledelse i politiet. Oslo.. DFØ.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Ny undersøkelse: Mange vektere blir tatt for å være politi. Politiforum.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Privatpraktiserende politi i gatene. Dagsavisen.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Undersøkelse: Nær halvparten av vekterne tatt for å være politi. Nationen.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Norwegian security guards dread work among violence and threats. Nordic Labour Journal.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Forvaltning av synlighet: Etterretning som vitenspraksis i politiorganisasjonen. Del av panelet: Del av Etterretning som kunnskapspraksis i politiet Christin Wathne (OsloMet), Helene O. I. Gundhus (UiO), Erik Reikås (PHS), Tove Eriksen (POD/PHS/UIS), Jenny M. Lundgaard (PHS). Kriminologikonferansen 2023. Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for kriminologi og rettssos.

Wathne, Christin Thea (2023). Vektere er for dårlig rustet for å mestre arbeidshverdagen, ifølge en ny rapport fra Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet på OsloMet. En av fire gruer seg til å gå på jobb. Arbeidsliv i Norden.

Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Wathne, Christin Thea ; Kjekshus, Lars Erik (2022). To What Extent Is Digitalism a New Institutional Logic? - Evidence from Police and Healthcare Organizations. DigiWork . Oslomet/AFI.
https://www.algorithmic-governance.com/post/cfp-al

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