معرفی
Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus serves as Head of Department at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, while maintaining a part-time professorship in police science at the Norwegian Police Academy (PHS). Her influential research examines the transformation of policing practices in the digital age, with particular expertise in migration control, predictive policing, and the sociological dimensions of security governance.
Dr. Gundhus earned her PhD in criminology from the University of Oslo in 2006. From 2006 to 2016, she was employed at the Norwegian Police Academy's research department, where she was appointed professor of police science in 2013. Her academic journey reflects a deep engagement with both theoretical criminology and practical police science.
Her research interests span policing and globalization, police-society relations, security and social control, crime prevention, and the intersection of knowledge, technology, and policing practices. Employing qualitative methods including discourse analysis and ethnography, she critically examines how digital technologies transform police work, particularly focusing on predictive policing, data-driven intelligence, and the impact of platformization on law enforcement. Her work reveals how risk assessment tools reshape migration control and contribute to the criminalization of vulnerable populations, with significant contributions to the field of 'crimmigration' studies.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a sophisticated examination of digital transformation in policing, with particular attention to algorithmic governance, platformization of police work, and the cultural dimensions of intelligence-led policing. Her research increasingly investigates how data integration platforms like Palantir are adopted (or resisted) in Scandinavian policing contexts, exploring the tension between data-driven approaches and traditional police cultures in societies characterized by high public trust.
- Radzinowicz Prize 2015 for the article "Policing Humanitarian Borderlands: Frontex, Human Rights and the Precariousness of Life" (co-authored with Professor Katja Franko)
Dr. Gundhus supervises numerous master's students in criminology and currently mentors five PhD students. She has led significant research projects including the evaluation of the Coordination of Crime Prevention Measures (SLT), and serves as national team leader for comparative research projects such as 'Policing Streets of Europe' and 'Social Crime Prevention in Late Modern Europe.' Her current projects include 'Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing,' 'Critical Understanding of Predictive Policing,' and 'Getting to the Core of Crimmigration.'
She is actively involved in multiple research groups including the Police Intelligence group at PHS, the Law and Technology research group at the University of Oslo, and the Nordic Police Research Network. Her scholarly contributions extend to editorial roles with the European Journal of Policing Studies and leadership positions within the European Society of Criminology's Working Group on policing and Border Criminologies.
