Petra Saskia Bayerl

Saskia is Professor of Digital Communication and Security at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests lay at the intersection of human-computer interaction, organisational communication, and organisational change with a special focus on ICT implementation, privacy, and the management of transparency. She holds master degrees in Psychology, Linguistics and Organisational Dynamics from universities in Germany and the US and a PhD from the Faculty in Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands. Before joining CENTRIC she was Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence in Public Safety Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands). Her work is published in international journals such as MIS Quarterly, Government Information Quarterly, New Media and Society and Communications of the ACM as well as numerous international conference. She regularly co-edits books, including Big Data for National Security, Open Source Intelligence, Digital Police Work (in German) and Community Policing – A European Perspective.

Teaching

• Business, Technology and Enterprise

Research

• Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

van der Giessen, M., & Bayerl, P. (2022). Designing for successful online engagement: understanding technological frames of citizen and police users of community policing platforms. Government Information quarterly: an international journal of information technology management, policies, and practices, 39 (3).

Fileto Cuerci Maciel, R., Macedo Kerr Pinheiro, M., & Bayerl, P. (2021). Social forecasting: a literature review of research promoted by the United States National Security System to model human behavior. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais, 12 (4), 23-52.

Butot, V., Bayerl, P.S., Jacobs, G., & de Haan, F. (2020). Citizen repertoires of smart urban safety: Perspectives from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 158, 120164.