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Persoonlijk profiel
Expertise
Dr. Rosamunde Van Brakel works as an Assistant Professor at the Fundamental Rights Centre (10%) and as postdoctoral researcher at the Crime and Society Research Group (CRiS)(90%) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 2021 she teaches and coordinates the Master course Legal, Ethical and Social Issues of Artificial Intelligence. She is co-PI of the FWO project: Smart Video Surveillance in Smart Cities: Deconstructing Security and Surveillance Discourses and IBOF Project Future-proofing Human Rights. Developing thicker forms of accountability at the VUB. She is also currently involved with CRiS as academic partner in the UK Keystone project on Responsible AI : Probable Futures: Probabilistic AI systems in Law Enforcement Futures. Previously, she coordinated the VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies (2019-2023), has taught courses at Tilburg university and Hasselt University and has been visiting professor at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Essex (UK) and Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa (Canada). She is currently (co-)supervising four PhD Students.
She has been researching the social and ethical consequences of (algorithmic) surveillance technologies in the public sector since 2006. She defended her PhD Dissertation: Taming the future: A rhizomatic analysis of preemptive surveillance of children in 2018. Since finishing her PhD she has been conducting research on the democratic governance of surveillance, crime control, risk assessments and AI. Currently she is doing research on rhizomatic harms of algorithmic socio-technical systems used for crime control. She is member of the network and editorial board of the journal Surveillance & Society and the editorial board of the dutch-language criminological journal Panopticon. She has co-edited six books and her work has appeared in journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Surveillance & Society, Computer, Law & Security, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Cahiers Politiestudies (Journal of Police Studies).
Rosamunde has substantial experience in advisory roles, she was and is part of several advisory boards of EU-funded projects and has been invited as an academic expert at several occassions. For instance, she has been involved as an expert for the Belgian government in 2020 (Expert working group Coronalert app) and was an expert witness for the UK House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry on new technologies and law enforcement in 2021 and was invited to speak in 2022 at the hearing of the European Parliament PEGA inquiry 'Spyware used against citizens'. Finally she also engages with civil society through her memebership of the boards of Privacy Salon, the not-for-profit organisation which organises the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference, and the Ministry of Privacy.
Onderzoeksinteresses
Digital Criminology, Critical AI and Surveillance Studies, Police and Security Studies, Children and Youth studies, Youth Justice & Children's Rights, Critical Criminology, Feminist criminology and Intersectionality, Zemiology, Green Criminology, Innovative qualitative methods
Externe posities
Guestprofessor, Hasselt University
1 sep 2023 → 31 aug 2024
Associate Professor Cybercrime and Surveillance Tilburg University
1 aug 2021 → 31 jul 2022
Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network
1 jan 2019 → 31 dec 2023
Executive director Privacy Salon vzw
4 nov 2014 → 28 feb 2022
Vingerafdruk
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Samenwerkingen en hoofdonderzoeksgebieden uit de afgelopen vijf jaar
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iBOF/21/031: Toekomstbestendige mensenrechten door een meer robuuste rekenschapsplichtigheid
De Hert, P., Destrooper, T., Smet, S., Dembour, M., Vandenhole, W. & Van Brakel, R. E.
1/01/21 → 31/12/24
Project: Fundamenteel
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FWOAL1004: Slim cameratoezicht in smart cities: de deconstructie van het surveillance- en veiligheidsdiscours
De Melo Melgaço, L. & Van Brakel, R. E.
1/01/21 → 31/12/24
Project: Fundamenteel
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9 Artificial Intelligence
Van Brakel, R. E., 2025, Handbook in Digital Criminology. Kaufmann, M. & Mork Lomell, H. (redactie). De Gruyter, blz. 83-90 8 blz.Onderzoeksoutput: Chapter › Research › peer review
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Acculturation and Acceleration: The Impact of Facial Recognition Technology on Youth at Cultural and Sporting Events
Van Brakel, R. E., 2025, (Submitted) In: European Review of Digital Administration & Law.Onderzoeksoutput: Article › peer review
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Automating security? The redesign of air passenger data connectivity across Europe
Bellanova, R., Leese, M., Van Brakel, R. E. & Ugolini, V., 26 feb 2025, In: Internet Policy Review. 2 blz.Onderzoeksoutput: Comment/debate
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Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society.
Van Brakel, R. E. & Govaerts, L., 2025, In: Theoretical Criminology. 29, 1, blz. 91–109 19 blz.Onderzoeksoutput: Article › peer review
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Legal, ethical and social issues of AI and Law Enforcement in Europe: The case of predictive policing
Van Brakel, R. E., feb 2025, The Cambridge Handbook on the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence. Smuha, N. (redactie). Cambridge University Press, blz. 367-382 16 blz.Onderzoeksoutput: Chapter › Research › peer review
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Prijzen
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Surveillance & Society Best Paper prize
Van Brakel, Rosamunde Elise (Recipient), 2010
Prijs: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activiteiten
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Crystal Ball: Some critical criminological reflections on using Predictive Policing for Environmental Crime Control
Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel (Speaker)
25 apr 2025Activiteit: Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Acculturation and Acceleration: The impact of facial recognition technology on youth at cultural and sporting events
Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel (Speaker)
13 mrt 2025Activiteit: Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Debat Hannah Arendt Instituut en deBuren: Wie niet weg is is gezien: slimme camera's in de publieke ruimte
Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel (Speaker)
27 feb 2025Activiteit: Talk at a public lecture/debate
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Law & Criminology Talk, prof David Murakami Wood: Cities at the End of the world: Technologies and urbanism in an age of crisis
Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel (Chair) & Lucas De Melo Melgaço (Chair)
10 apr 2025Activiteit: Participating in or organizing a school event
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Beyond surveillance capitalism: Exploring surveillance and security narratives on smart video surveillance discourse in Belgium (2012-2022)
Megan Hadasa Leal Causton (Speaker), Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel (Contributor) & Lucas De Melo Melgaço (Contributor)
30 jun 2024Activiteit: Talk or presentation at a conference
Knipsels
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Interview Onderzoeker waarschuwt: 'Wat Hongarije doet met gezichtsherkenning kan ook in België
26/03/25
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Interview Krantenwinkels zetten AI in voor leeftijdscontrole: ‘We groeien naar een totale surveillance-maatschappij’
18/03/25
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Interview “Ik zou burgers niet aanraden om politiewerk te doen en beelden van criminelen te maken”
4/03/25
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Quotes in De Standaard: Antwerps project wil Joodse wijk met AI beveiligen
28/11/24
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Quotes in Knack: Slimme camera’s moeten verdacht gedrag detecteren in de Antwerpse Joodse wijk: ‘Het kan een opstap zijn om de technologie later op een andere manier te gaan gebruiken
27/11/24
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Scriptie
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De invloed van G. Stanley Hall op de pedagogisering van het discours over onanie
Auteur: Van Brakel, R. E., 2004Begeleider: Depaepe, M. (Externe persoon) (Promotor)
Scriptie/Masterproef: Master's Thesis
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Surveillance as Social Sorting: Passenger Profiling
Auteur: Van Brakel, R. E., 2008Begeleider: Verbruggen, F. (Externe persoon) (Promotor)
Scriptie/Masterproef: Master's Thesis