Christel Backman
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and WorkAbout Christel Backman
CHRISTEL BACKMAN (LL.M, PhD in Sociology) has been with the department since 2006. Her research examines issues on deviation, social control, surveillance and human resource management. Backman completed her doctoral thesis ’Criminal Records in Sweden. The Regulation of Access to Criminal Records and the Use of Criminal Background Checks by Employers’ in March 2012. The thesis was awarded as the ”Best HR-research 2012”.
Specialist fields
- Sociology of Law
- Surveillance Studies
- Human Resource
- Social Control
Current research Employers' use of information seeking on the Internet in the recruitment process, and its consequences for organizations and jobseekers on the Swedish labour market. Over the past years it has become increasingly more common for employers to check up job-seekers online, using a search engine, specific databases or social media. In this way employers may add information about specific parts of the job-seeker’s past, such as criminal records, or try to capture the job-seeker’s “data double”. Previous research on online behaviour in general and social media in particular, has focused on the data subjects online action, how privacy settings are used and if online behaviour is modified due to potential data gathering by outsiders. In this project we turn our attention to the ones who gather this type of data and use it as access control for employment. Our aim is to examine how employers interpret the data they find and to what extent it influences the recruitment process and the decision to hire or not hire a candidate.
Descriptions of occupations for career guidance – a matter of the free choice of the individual or the differentiation of the labour force? In this project we analyse a large number of occupational descriptions, published on the Swedish Public Employment Service’s website, to see how these descriptions are formulated and structured. Our aim is to illuminate what aspects of knowledge and personal qualities that is described as necessary or positive in various occupations, and if the descriptions differ depending on factors such as occupational prestige and gender. Furthermore, the study will show how these descriptions – and the occupations portrayed – are perceived by young adults and to what extent the material is used by career counsellors in Sweden.
Teaching and tutoring Christel Backman lectures on criminology, victimology, socio-legal studies, surveillance studies, theory of science and qualitative methods, and supervises undergraduate students.
Miscellaneous Christel Backman coordinates the research network ”Surveillance & Scandinavian Exceptionalism”, funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Science (RJ).
She is a member of the Surveillance Studies Network.
She is coordinator of the 'Narrative Analysis Group' in the department, and is a member of the Department's Research Group in Criminology and Sociology of Law
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Representations of policing problems and body-worn cameras in existing
research
Christel Backman, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
International Criminal Justice Review - 2022-01-01 -
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested
practise
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
Acta Sociologica - 2022-01-01 -
Patient-accessible online health records: Reconfigurations of clinical rhythms and doctors’ front- and backstage
spaces
Jesper Petersson, Christel Backman
Social Science and Medicine - 2022-01-01 -
Control or protection? Work environment implications of police body-worn
cameras
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Christel Backman
New technology, work and employment - 2021-01-01 -
Off the record: The invisibility work of doctors in a patient-accessible electronic health record information
service.
Jesper Petersson, Christel Backman
Sociology of health & illness - 2021-01-01 -
Whom do you know? Recruiters’ motives for assessing jobseekers’ online
networks
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman, Peter Håkansson
The International Journal of Human Resource Management - 2021-01-01 -
Acting on a hunch: cybervetting and the role of emotions in job
recruitment
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
Emotions and Society - 2020-01-01 -
Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting
recruiters
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
New technology, work and employment - 2019-01-01 -
Medskapande pedagogik på en
introduktionskurs
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
Scherp H.Å & Uhnoo D. (red.) Medskapande högskolepedagogik - 2018-01-01 -
Synliggöra högskolepedagogisk kompetens vid institutionerna. Rapport och
lathund
Christel Backman, Ninni Carlsson, Lena Lindgren, Hauwa Mahdi
- 2018-01-01 -
Kursintroduktion som aktivt
lärtillfälle
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
Symposium Rum för lärande, 8-9 oktober, Västerås - 2018-01-01 -
Hur värderar studenter lärarproducerade podcasts i relation till andra
läraktiviteter?
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
NU2018 Det akademiska lärarskapet, 9-11 oktober, Västerås - 2018-01-01 -
Nätgranskning i samband med rekrytering: hur, vad och varför
(inte)?
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
- 2018-01-01 -
Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting
recruiters
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
8th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, Århus - 2018-01-01 -
Lärarpoddar i
kriminologi
Christel Backman, Mattias Wahlström, Sara Uhnoo
Digitalisering av högre utbildning - 2018-01-01 -
Explaining the Data Double: Confessions and Self-Examinations in Job
Recruitments.
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
Surveillance & Society - 2017-01-01 -
Bekänna sig anställningsbar: rekrytering och
bakgrundskontroller
Christel Backman
Den motspänstiga akademikern - 2017-01-01 -
Explaining your Data Double: Confessions, honesty and trust in job
recruitments
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON HRM. Gothenburg, Sweden: 23-25 March - 2017-01-01 -
Network recruitment and diminishing boundaries between private life and working
life
Anna Hedenus, Peter Håkansson, Christel Backman
FALFs nationella arbetslivskonferens 2016, 13–15 juni, Östersund - 2016-01-01 -
Explaining your Data Double: Confessions, honesty and trust in job
recruitments
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
7th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, Barcelona - 2016-01-01 -
Pedagogiska lärmiljöer och kreativa forskningsmiljöer – Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens framtida
lokaler
Signe Borch, Christel Backman, Carlsson Axel, Malgorzata Erikson, Marita Fagerling, Maria Oskarson, Anton Rundstöm
- 2016-01-01 -
Cybervetting, (un)trustworthy job candidates and distrusting
employers
Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman
Workshop on trust, distrust and surveillance. Surveillance & Scandinavian Exceptionalism research network. October 5-6, 2015, Gothenburg. - 2015-01-01 -
Yrkesbeskrivningar för vägledning - – en fråga om individens fria val eller arbetskraftens
selektering?
Anna Hedenus, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Frida Wikstrand, Christel Backman
- 2015-01-01 -
Notions of Class and Gender in the Employment Service Job
Descriptions
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Christel Backman
Sociologisk Forskning - 2014-01-01 -
Yrkesbeskrivningens
villkor
Malin Linde, Christel Backman
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2014-01-01 -
Stereotyper och brytbilder i yrkesbeskrivande text och
film
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson
Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv - 2014-01-01 -
Föreställningar om klass och kön i Arbetsförmedlingens
yrkesbeskrivningar
Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Christel Backman
Sociologisk forskning - 2014-01-01 -
The Job-Seeker and the Data Double: How Employers use Information Seeking on the Internet in the Recruitment Process and its Consequences for Interaction with the Job
Seeker
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
Paper for ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama 13-19 July 2014: RC42 Social Psychology: Social Interaction. - 2014-01-01 -
Will your Facebook profile get you hired? Employers use of information seeking online during the recruitment
process
Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
Paper presented at The 6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, April 24-26, 2014, Barcelona, Spain. - 2014-01-01 -
För säkerhets
skull
Christel Backman
Tidskrift för kriminalvård - 2013-01-01 -
Vad tycker hyresgästerna? Utvärdering av Stadsmissionens Stöd- och tillsynsboende i Göteborg. En verksamhet med bostad-först
intentioner.
Christel Backman
- 2012-01-01 -
Mandatory Criminal Records in Sweden: Scandals and Function
Creep
Christel Backman
Surveillance & Society - 2012-01-01 -
LiSS Working Group
4
Christel Backman
Living in Surveillance Societies: The Ghost of Surveillance - 2012-01-01 -
Introduction
C. William R. Webster, Doina Balahur, Nils Zurawski, Kees Boersma, Bence Sagvari, Christel Backman
Living in Surveillance Societies: The Ghost of Surveillance - 2012-01-01 -
Living in Surveillance Societies: The Ghost of
Surveillance
C. William R. Webster, Doina Balahur, Nils Zurawski, Kees Boersma, Bence Sagvari, Christel Backman
- 2012-01-01 -
Privacy and surveillance in judicial proceedings - Business Interests, the Expectation of Privacy and Democracy: Inter-continental and Inter-European
Differences
Christel Backman, András Paps
LiSS Conference 3: "The State of Surveillance", Barcelona 28 of May - 1st of June 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
A Helping Hand and a Watchful Eye - Care and Surveillance in Supportive
Housing.
Christel Backman
The 5th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, 3-4 of April 2012, Sheffield, UK - 2012-01-01 -
Criminal records: Governing
symbols
Christel Backman
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State / Larsson, Bengt; Letell, Martin; Thörn, Håkan (red.) - 2012-01-01 -
Criminal Records in Sweden. Regulation of access to criminal records and the use of criminal background checks by
employers.
Christel Backman
- 2012-01-01 -
Kravet på registerkontroll kan leda till fler
återfall
Christel Backman
Newsmill - 2011-01-01 -
Vocabularies of Motive Among Employers Conducting Criminal Background
Checks
Christel Backman
Acta Sociologia - 2011-01-01 -
Screening for
paedophiles
Christel Backman
Risk, Uncertainty and Policy. ESA RN22 Midterm Conference, 23-25 of March, Östersund, Sweden - 2011-01-01 -
Regulating Privacy: Vocabularies of Motive in Legislating Right of Access to Criminal Records in
Sweden
Christel Backman
Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection: an Element of Choice - 2011-01-01 -
Övervakning i
kontrollsamhällena
Christel Backman
Social kontroll – övervakning, disciplinering och självreglering - 2011-01-01 -
Vad är social kontroll? Samhällsteoretiska
perspektiv
Bengt Larsson, Christel Backman
Social kontroll. Övervakning, disciplinering och självreglering - 2011-01-01 -
Liberal Rights Within a Welfare Discourse: The Swedish Criminal Records Act and International
Policy
Christel Backman
ISA XVII World Congress of Sociology, 12-17 of July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2010-01-01 -
Keeping track of ex-convicts. The extension of lawful use of criminal records in
Sweden
Christel Backman
A Global Surveillance Society? Surveillance Studies Network/Living in Surveillance Societies Conference, London 13-15 April 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
Keeping track of ex-convicts. Media,government, and extension of lawful use of criminal
records
Christel Backman
Svenska Sociologförbundets årsmöteskonferens, Halmstad 11-12 mars 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
The Vocabularies of Motive for Subject's Right to Access the Criminal Record: The Case of
Sweden
Christel Backman
An Element of Choice. 3rd International Conference on Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection - 2010-01-01 -
How Employers Construct Risk and Strategies for Risk Management in Relation to Hiring New
Employees
Christel Backman
ESA-conference 2009, 2-5 of September, Lisbon - 2009-01-01 -
En gång tjuv alltid tjuv? Moraliska överväganden kring användning av registerkontroller vid
rekryteringar.
Christel Backman
Svenska Sociologförbundets Årsmöte, Uppsala 5-6 mars 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Medierna överdriver
brottsutvecklingen
Christel Backman, Sara Uhnoo, Mattias Wahlström
Svenska Dagbladet - 2009-01-01 -
Employers' view on the use of criminal records, credit ratings and other control methods in the process of
recruitment
Christel Backman
Invisibilities: The Politics, Practise and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life. 2-3 april 2008, Sheffield England, Surveillance Studies Network & Center for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield - 2008-01-01 -
En gång tjuv alltid
tjuv?
Christel Backman
Stockholms Fria - 2008-01-01 -
Att utvärdera stödet för brottsoffer i Göteborg. Förstudie: hur kan man göra och vad har
gjorts?
Christel Backman
- 2007-01-01 -
Vräkningens
funktioner
Christel Backman
Seminarium om nordisk bostadslöshetsforskning, Göteborg 17-19 mars 2006 - 2006-01-01