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
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Research groups
Research projects
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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.
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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.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen;
Wathne, Christin Thea
;
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2024).
Introduction to Volume II: Interrogating Cultures of Policing and Intelligence in the Big Data Era.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Wathne, Christin Thea (Ed.).
Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume II: New Global Perspectives on the Politics and Ethics of Knowledge. p. 1-24.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68298-8_1
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen;
Wathne, Christin Thea
(2024).
Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume II: New Global Perspectives on the Politics and Ethics of Knowledge.
ISBN: 978-3-031-68297-1.
211 p.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031682971
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen;
Wathne, Christin Thea
(2024).
Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume I: New Global Perspectives on Algorithmic Governance.
ISBN: 978-3-031-68325-1.
254 p.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031683251
Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen;
Wathne, Christin Thea
(2024).
Diffusion and resistance to intelligence in the Norwegian Police.
Rønn, Kira Vrist; Diderichsen, Adam; Hartmann, Mia Koss; Hartvigsen, Melanie (Ed.).
Intelligence practices in high-trust societies. Scandinavian exceptionalism? . p. 189-200.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032616377-17
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.