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Vanja Carlsson

Senior Lecturer

School of Public Administration
Telephone
+46 31-786 10 97
+46 766-18 10 97
Mail
vanja.carlsson@spa.gu.se
Visiting address
Sprängkullsgatan 19
41123 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 712
40530 Göteborg

About Vanja Carlsson

 

  • Associate professor in public administration

  • Senior lecturer in public administration 

 

Research interest

  • Artificial intelligence, digitalization and democracy

  • Europeanization

  • The policy field of gender equality

  • Ideology analysis

  • Public governance and policy tools

 

Ongoing research projects

2026–2030 Pl for the project Can AI Infrastructure Be Governed in the Welfare State? A Study of How AI Affects Work and Decision-Making Processes in Local Public Administration. Funded by the Wallenberg WASP-HS program.

2023–2026 PI for the project The politics of automated systems of governing: implications for public administration and gender equality, financed by Vetenskapsrådet.

2021–2024 The research project Sex and gender perspectives as indicators of research quality in the humanities, social sciences and educational sciences, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

 

Member of research cluster

The AI Welfare State, funded by Wallenberg WASP-HS (led by Södertörn University)

AI, Power and Politics, funded by Wallenberg WASP-HS (led by Umeå University)

 

Teaching

  • Theory of Democracy

  • Implementation and evaluation

  • Public auditing

  • Gender equality work in public organizations

  • Supervising Bachelor and Master degree projects