Dr. Francisca Grommé
Francisca Grommé is part of the Digitalisation in Work and Society programme as an assistant professor. She's a lecturer of the course 'Artificial intelligence: The present and future of work'. Francisca works from a background in science and technology studies (STS), political science and digital sociology. Her research focusses on digitalisation in relation to organisational knowledge practices: how digitalisation changes the way data are collected, analysed and verified by the state and in the digital economy. An example of a changing knowledge practice is the increasing adoption of hackathons to generate knowledge and insights from digital data.
Francisca is interested in what comes to count as ‘good knowledge’ for governance, who decides on his, and how this changes power relations between citizens and the state and between professions. Central research themes in Francisca’s work are: surveillance, identity, digital work, organisational formats, experiment, expertise, occupations, materiality, participation and citizenship.
Francisca approaches these topics mainly ethnographically: by studying everyday practices in organisations such as public transport, municipalities and statistical offices. She is currently working on the digital governance of Europe’s postcolonial overseas territories (among which the Caribbean Netherlands) and on the use of AI and data analytics in corporate recruitment. She continues to work on the adoption of big data in official statistics, research she started as a postdoc at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also has an ongoing research interest in crime control and surveillance, a topic she wrote her PhD about at the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Jiska Engelbert
Jiska Engelbert (PhD, Aberystwyth 2009) is Associate Professor at the Erasmus School of Social & Behavioural Sciences (ESSB). Within the School's Department of Public Administration & Sociology (DPAS), she leads Team Public Issues & Imaginaries. Moreover, she is Strategic Director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities, and she co-leads the smart cities and communities theme within the Erasmus Vital Cities and Citizens Initiative.
Dr. Vincent Homburg
Vincent Homburg is Associate Professor in Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and ERA Chair "e-Governance and Digital Public Services" at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has a Master’s degree from Twente University (Public Administration) and a PhD degree from Groningen University (Organisation Studies / Information Systems). Currently, his research focuses on e-government (both as a national, Dutch phenomenon, as well as in comparative research) and teaches public management theory, methodology and public information systems courses at bachelor, Master and post initial Master levels.
Vincent also actively contributes to the public management and information systems literatures. He has published more than sixty peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and co-edited The Information Ecology of E-Government (IOS Press, with Professor Victor Bekkers) and New Public Management in Europe, Adaptation and Alternatives (Palgrave MacMillan, with Christopher Pollitt and Sandra van Thiel). Vincent also authored Understanding E-Government: Information Systems in Public Administration (Routledge Taylor & Francis). Vincent co-supervised and still co-supervises several PhD students working on a variety of topics and employing diverse methodologies. In 2010 he received the best PhD supervisor award by the Netherlands Institute of Government’s (NIG).
Dr. Paraskevas Petrou
Paraskevas Petrou is assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current work focuses on employee creative behaviour, employee proactivity (i.e., job crafting) and work-life interface. He has previously worked on employee adaptation to organizational changes.
Paraskevas Petrou is assistant professor of organisational psychology at the Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The central question that drives his research is how and when employees can be active agents within their working lives and also outside work.
Examples of research questions that he has addressed include when job challenges or even problems motivate employees to craft their jobs or to step outside the box and display creative or adaptive behaviour. Similarly, does leisure behaviour outside work help employees to make the most of their jobs? Paraskevas Petrou studied psychology at University of Athens and University of Nottingham and received his PhD at Utrecht University, conducting research on whether self-regulation and job crafting helps employees adapt to organisational changes. He is member of the Dutch Association of Organisational Psychologists (WAOP) and he is actively pursuing research collaborations with both national and international universities. Currently, he is teaching introductory courses on organisational psychology as well as a practical courses on organisational diagnosis.
Prof. dr. Ferry Koster
Ferry Koster is associate professor of Work, Organization and Management at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Until 2018, he combined this role with the position of distinguished professor of collaborative innovation at TIAS School for Business and Society.
Koster's research focuses on the interrelationship between governments, organizations and individuals. These interdependent actors are involved in dynamic cooperative and conflictive encounters. Besides that, such dynamics are affected by the context in which these actors operate. Hence, in his research, Ferry Koster evaluates these relationships in connection to societal, political and economic developments like flexibilization, individualization, aging, knowledge intensification and globalization.
He was involved in and coordinator of several national international research projects, such as MAAK2020, Sustaining Employability, The State of Local Welfare, NEUJOBS, and INSPIRES. Besides that, he serves as one of the editors of Mens & Maatschappij. Apart from these theoretical and empirical investigations, he is interested in their practical implications and how to make the results accessible to the public through workshops and consultancy. Besides that, he is a board member of public and private organizations.
Prof. dr. Laura den Dulk
Laura den Dulk is full professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Public Administration and Sociology, the Netherlands. Her main area of expertise is cross-national research regarding work-life policies in organisations in different welfare state regimes.
In 2001 she completed her PhD in Social Sciences on the presence of work-family arrangements in organizations in different European countries. She is co-editor of a number of books: “Work-family arrangements in Europe” (Thela Thesis, 1999), “Flexible Working, Organizational Change and the Integration of Work and Personal life” (Edward Elgar, 2005), and “Quality of life and work: theory, policy and practice” (Palgrave, 2011). In 2010 she became editor of the international journal Community, Work and Family. Current research interests include the role of managers, work-life balance support in the public sector and the social quality in European workplaces. She participated in various EC research projects: ‘Quality of life in a changing Europe’ (QUALITY), and ‘Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace: young adults negotiating the work-family boundary’ (TRANSITIONS).
Daphne van Helden, MSc
Daphnes interest is in how individual and structural characteristics interact throughout career advancement. In her PhD research, she therefore studied what male and female mid-career academics experience in terms of shaping their career according to personal preferences and needs over time. She is embarking on new research at the intersection of careers, gender and digitalisation.