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Katherine Harrison is Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer at Linköping University’s Department of Theme (TEMA), unit Theme Gender (TEMAG). She leads critical, feminist and interdisciplinary research on AI, social robotics and smart-city governance, anchored in LiU profile areas Visual Digital Futures and Social Transformations.
Education & academic trajectory: While explicit degrees are not listed in the supplied text, Harrison’s long scholarly record (≥25 works since 2008) and her rank of Associate Professor imply a completed PhD and subsequent habilitation equivalent in feminist STS/technology studies.
Research interests revolve around three pillars:
- Ethics, trust and embodiment in human-robot interaction
- Datafication, visualisation & AI governance in smart sustainable cities
- Feminist and intersectional analyses of technological design and power
Publication trends 2020-2025: Her recent articles shift from early-career studies of digital intimacy and dating platforms toward large collaborative projects on AI failure, data work, and governance of urban and robotic systems. Keywords span Computer Science, Human-Robot Interaction, Urban Studies, Gender Theory and Critical Data Studies, signalling a consolidation of interdisciplinary impact.
Grants & awards: Grant capture mentioned includes Wallenberg WASP-HS projects on AI & autonomous systems, Formas funding for sustainable city research (49 M SEK shared across LiU), RJ grants for humanities (14 M SEK shared), and internally profiled Visual Digital Futures infrastructure, but no individual medals or fellowships are listed.
Doctoral supervision & teams: She currently advises two PhD candidates (Maria Arnelid, Dominika Lisy) and one post-doc (Signe Bjerrekär Skov) and participates in collectives such as The Bodies Hub, CMBS, P6 research collective, and Tema Data Lab.
