As part of the workshop Understanding and re-imagining the digital welfare state, we invite a broader audience to attend two public plenary sessions.
Across Europe and beyond, welfare systems are increasingly digitalized. While often introduced in the name of efficiency and innovation, these technologies reshape how welfare is governed, experienced, and contested.
These plenary sessions provide an opportunity to reflect critically on these developments and to explore how digital welfare systems might be reconfigured to better support democratic values and social justice.
The sessions are open to interested researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers. Participation is free, but registration is required.
Speakers
We are delighted to welcome Professor Anne Kaun and Morgan Currie as plenary speakers.
Professor Anne Kaun
Professor Anne Kaun is professor in media and communication studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden). Among other things, Professor Anne Kaun is the project leader of the Chanse-funded project AUTO-WELF, which explores the automation of welfare systems across eight European countries. She also leads the comparative research project Automating Welfare in the Baltic Sea Region, funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation, which examines how digital and automated decision-making reshapes welfare governance in the region.
Morgan Currie
Morgan Currie is a senior lecturer of information studies and science and technology studies at the University of Edinburgh whose research focuses on automated social services, administrative data, data justice, and participatory data practices. Her work includes in-depth studies of automated welfare systems such as the UK’s Universal Credit.
Organizers
This event is organized by Oslo Metropolitan University and the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, with support from DIGIT (the Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society) and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral Actions from the European Commission.
If you have any questions, please contact the organizers: Marijke Roosen, Tina Svingerud or Lior Volinz (lior.Volinz@inst-krim.si).
