For an extensive academic profile please visit https://www.mareilekaufmann.net/.
Academic interests
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Digital criminology
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Surveillance
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Technologies, their societal impacts and emerging regulation
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Science and Technology Studies
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Genetics, DNA
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Forensics & police work
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Representations of all of the above in art projects
Background
Kaufmann's current work consolidates and further shapes the field of digital criminology with a specific focus on data practices. She works with qualitative research designs that combine theory with innovative angles and strong empirical components. This combination also shows itself in the range of groups she interviewed and co-produced research with, including intelligence officers, state officials, forensic scientists, software developers and algorithm designers, as well as social media users who were exposed to terror attacks, hackers, artists and children.
She has ample experience in FP7, H2020 and RCN-funded projects on security, technology and related topics. Her work has been consulted by the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, and the Norwegian Data Protection Commission, the Norwegian Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombudsmann, and the Norwegian Department of Justice and Preparedness.
Mareile actively peer reviews for research funding agencies, journals and book publishers. She serves on the editorial boards of Qualitative Research and the Nordic Journal of Criminology.
Her 2023 book Making Information Matter has been described as a "breath of fresh air" (David Ribes), "a rich resource" (Lucy Suchman), "intriguing" (Evelyn Rupert), "fascinating and brave" (Kevin Haggerty), and "an unusually incisive and pragmatic approach to what it means to live with information" (Adrian McKenzie).
- "If I had to name one book for understanding ‘information’ in the world today, this would be it. Kaufmann’s work is marvellously wide-ranging while maintaining intellectual rigour; and it’s fun." (Geoffrey C. Bowker)
Kaufmann regularly edits special issues:
- Vocations, Visions and Vitalities of Data Analysis. Information, Communication and Society.
- Pragmatic Engagements with and from within the Internet. First Monday 25th Anniversary Issue. (with Anna Leander and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup)
- Doing and Mediating Critique. Security Dialogue 50th Anniversary Issue. (with Jonathan L. Austin and Rocco Bellanova)
- Politics and "the digital". European Journal of Social Theory. (with Julien Jeandesboz)
- Resilience. Security Dialogue (with Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Søby Kristensen).
Awards and grants
- The 2023 University of Oslo Award for Young Researchers, 250.000 NOK
- The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence [Digital DNA], European Research Council, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme ERC-2020-STG [Personal], 16.358.121 NOK
- Bodies of Evidence, The Research Council of Norway "Young Researcher Talent" [Personal], 6.150.000 NOK
- Sir Leon Radzinowicz Prize awarded by the British Journal of Criminology and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies for the co-authored article Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns.
- e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders, The Research Council of Norway "UTENRIKS" [Common effort], 12.000.000 NOK
- Warring with machines: Military applications of AI and the relevance of virtue ethics, The Research Council of Norway "SAMKUL" [Common effort], 14.083.000 NOK
- Critical Data Network, The Research Council of Norway “SAMKUL networks" [Personal], 298.000 NOK
- Nordic Center for Security Technologies and Societal Values [NordSteva], NordForsk Center of Excellence, Nordforsk [Common effort], 22.000.000 NOK
- Negotiating Values: Collective Identities and Resilience after 22/7 [NECORE], The Research Council of Norway “SAMKUL” [Common effort], 8.950.000 NOK
- Communicating Risk in the Digital Age [DIGICOM], The Research Council of Norway “SAMRISK II” [Common effort], 5.599.000 NOK
- Lieselotte Pongratz Stiftung Publication Grant [Personal grant]
- Übersee-Club stipend for gifted young academics [Personal]
Projects
Mareile is currently the PI for an ERC StG project on the changing relationships between digital technologies and DNA, as well as the RCN-funded project Bodies of Evidence.
Teaching
Mareile taught seminars in KRIM2000 from autumn 2016 - 2018. She holds lectures in KRIM2000 and KRIM1300.
She taught her own course called Surveillance: Data, Technologies, Practices since autumn 2017 (KRIM2957/4957) (only select lectures due to project work).
She also enjoys the supervision of BA students (KRIM2101), MA students (KRIM5001) and PhD students - mainly in her fields of interest. Mareile welcomes students who are interested in her work. Students should, however, reach out to Mareile via mail first to make an appointment.