Michaela Padden

I am interested in policy and regulation concerning ‘big data,’ in particular whether the current European data protection framework is sufficient to meet not only privacy needs, but emerging ethical/political/legal challenges posed by processes such as real-time tracking, predictive analytics, algorithmic profiling and decision-making and the goal of behaviour modification. 

@michaelapadden

Autumn 2021, Spring 2021, Autumn 2020, Spring 2020, Autumn 2019
Swedish and Comparative Politics (SVGE50)

The Swedish Welfare State Model

Spring 2019
Swedish and Comparative Politics (SVGE50)

Fall 2018
Introduction to EU Studies (SVGE80)

Further Studies in Politics (SVGE40) (co-taught Malin Stegmann McCallion)

Spring 2018
Methodology and development work in school-Secondary Education (LPAA03) (English module)

Spring 2017
Culture, Media and Society (LPGG15/ENGLX1)

Language Acquisition in Theory and Practice (LPGG15/ENGLX4) (Co-taught with Tim Roberts)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Limits of the GDPR in Regulating Profiling and Algorithmic Decision-Making
European Consortium for Political Research, Wroclaw. September 2019.

The politics of big data: Challenges ahead
The Swedish Political Science Association annual conference, Malmö. October 2018

Evading surveillance in the works of Philip K. Dick.
The 8th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference. Aarhus University, Denmark. June 2018.

Padden M. and Öjehag-Petterson A. (2021) Protected how? Problem representations of risk in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

Granberg, Mikael, Malin Rönnblom, Michaela Padden, Johanna Tangnäs & Andreas Öjehag (2021) Covid-19 and Sweden’s exceptionalism—a spotlight on the cracks in the social fabric of a mature welfare state.