Biography
Dr. Francisca Grommé is Assistant Professor in Digitalisation in Work and Society at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, where she researches the societal implications of AI, datafication, and digital labour through the lenses of science and technology studies (STS), political science, and digital sociology. As an ‘ethnographer of AI,’ her work explores questions of surveillance, citizenship, expertise, sustainability, and the politics of digital infrastructures, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies affect marginalised communities and professional practices.
She is the Scientific Director of the ‘Societal Impact of AI’ (AIPact), an Erasmus Initiative fostering interdisciplinary and impact-oriented scholarship. In addition, she co-founded and directs the Feminist Generative AI Lab, a Convergence initiative. Since 2026, she coordinates the interdisciplinary master's programme Digitalisation in Work and Society.
Throughout her scientific career in the Netherlands and the UK, she has secured grants from the Dutch National Research Council, Erasmus Trustfonds and the British Academy. Dr. Grommé’s research has been published in leading journals including Science, Technology & Human Values, Science as Culture, and Nations and Nationalism.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- gromme@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Francisca Grommé & E Ruppert (2019) - Population Geometries of Europe: The Topologies of Data Cubes and Grids - Science, Technology & Human Values, 45, 235-261 - doi: 10.1177/0162243919835302 - [link]
- Francisca Grommé & S Scheel (2020) - Doing statistics, enacting the nation: The performative powers of categories - Nations and Nationalism, 26 (3), 576-593 - doi: 10.1111/nana.12596 - [link]
- Jans Berden & Francisca Grommé (2023) - Online platforms verzwaren risico’s voor huishoudelijk werkers - [link]
- Francisca Grommé, Adriaan Odendaal & Jannes ten Berge (2023) - The New Breed: How to Re-Imagine Living with Robots - Journal of Human-Technology Relations, 1 (1) - doi: 10.59490/jhtr.2023.1.7023
- Francisca Grommé (2015) - Turning Aggression into an Object of Intervention: Tinkering in a Crime Control Pilot Study - Science as Culture, 24 (2), 227-247 - doi: 10.1080/09505431.2014.992331 - [link]
- Francisca Grommé, Fenna Nijboer, Justien Dingelstad & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - The Entrepreneurial Nurse? Professional Tensions on Digital Platforms (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Justien Dingelstad, Francisca Grommé & Iris Wallenburg (2024) - Who Is the Expert Here? Participatory Ethnography of a Predictive Brain Tumor Algorithm That Challenges the Existing Hierarchy of Expertise Amongst Physicians (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Francisca Grommé (2024) - The Roles of Data Analysts on Fish Farms: Care for the Data, Care for the Fish and Productivity (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Francisca Grommé (2023) - Fostering Digital Citizenship between the Caribbean and European Netherlands (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Justien Dingelstad, Francisca Grommé, Jans Berden, Claartje ter Hoeven & Iris Wallenburg (2023) - The Caring Baker: How Digital Nursing Platforms Transform Healthcare (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Justien Dingelstad, Francisca Grommé & Iris Wallenburg (2023) - The Emergence of Nursing Platforms: A Multimodal Analysis of Platforms' Founding Practices (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Francisca Grommé, Jans Berden & Claartje ter Hoeven (2022) - How Platform Workers Juggle Jobs: Algorithmic Management as Part of Distributed Work Practices (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Francisca Grommé (2022) - The Life of AI in a Controversy: Anne Frank's Story as a 'Cold Case' (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Francisca Grommé (2022) - What is Artificial Intelligence? Ask Alexa (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Francisca Grommé (2020) - Digital discrimination in partially automated recruitment processes: the role of design (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
4.1 Politics of work and technology
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSW-122
4.2 AI: The Present and Future of Work
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSW-136
Thesis
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSW-140
