Prof. dr. Claartje ter Hoeven
Claartje ter Hoeven is professor of Digitalisation in Work and Society at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her current teaching and research focus on how technological advancements shape the way we work, organise, and govern. More specifically, she is interested in the human labor behind AI, such as data annotation. She is the coordinator of the master programme Digitalisation in Work and Society. Besides, she is very active in organisational practice as well, by delivering lectures for (professional) organisations, participating in debates, and collaborating in publications for practice.
Dr. Francisca Grommé
Francisca Grommé is part of the Digitalisation in Work and Society programme as an assistant professor. She's a lecturer of the course 'Artificial intelligence: The present and future of work'. Francisca works from a background in science and technology studies (STS), political science and digital sociology. Her research focusses on digitalisation in relation to organisational knowledge practices: how digitalisation changes the way data are collected, analysed and verified by the state and in the digital economy. An example of a changing knowledge practice is the increasing adoption of hackathons to generate knowledge and insights from digital data.
Francisca is interested in what comes to count as ‘good knowledge’ for governance, who decides on his, and how this changes power relations between citizens and the state and between professions. Central research themes in Francisca’s work are: surveillance, identity, digital work, organisational formats, experiment, expertise, occupations, materiality, participation and citizenship.
Francisca approaches these topics mainly ethnographically: by studying everyday practices in organisations such as public transport, municipalities and statistical offices. She is currently working on the digital governance of Europe’s postcolonial overseas territories (among which the Caribbean Netherlands) and on the use of AI and data analytics in corporate recruitment. She continues to work on the adoption of big data in official statistics, research she started as a postdoc at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also has an ongoing research interest in crime control and surveillance, a topic she wrote her PhD about at the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Paraskevas Petrou
Paraskevas Petrou is assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current work focuses on employee creative behaviour, employee proactivity (i.e., job crafting) and work-life interface. He has previously worked on employee adaptation to organizational changes.
Paraskevas Petrou is assistant professor of organisational psychology at the Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The central question that drives his research is how and when employees can be active agents within their working lives and also outside work.
Examples of research questions that he has addressed include when job challenges or even problems motivate employees to craft their jobs or to step outside the box and display creative or adaptive behaviour. Similarly, does leisure behaviour outside work help employees to make the most of their jobs? Paraskevas Petrou studied psychology at University of Athens and University of Nottingham and received his PhD at Utrecht University, conducting research on whether self-regulation and job crafting helps employees adapt to organisational changes. He is member of the Dutch Association of Organisational Psychologists (WAOP) and he is actively pursuing research collaborations with both national and international universities. Currently, he is teaching introductory courses on organisational psychology as well as a practical courses on organisational diagnosis.
Prof. dr. Ferry Koster
Ferry Koster is associate professor of Work, Organization and Management at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Until 2018, he combined this role with the position of distinguished professor of collaborative innovation at TIAS School for Business and Society.
Koster's research focuses on the interrelationship between governments, organizations and individuals. These interdependent actors are involved in dynamic cooperative and conflictive encounters. Besides that, such dynamics are affected by the context in which these actors operate. Hence, in his research, Ferry Koster evaluates these relationships in connection to societal, political and economic developments like flexibilization, individualization, aging, knowledge intensification and globalization.
He was involved in and coordinator of several national international research projects, such as MAAK2020, Sustaining Employability, The State of Local Welfare, NEUJOBS, and INSPIRES. Besides that, he serves as one of the editors of Mens & Maatschappij. Apart from these theoretical and empirical investigations, he is interested in their practical implications and how to make the results accessible to the public through workshops and consultancy. Besides that, he is a board member of public and private organizations.
Daphne van Helden, MSc
Daphnes interest is in how individual and structural characteristics interact throughout career advancement. In her PhD research, she therefore studied what male and female mid-career academics experience in terms of shaping their career according to personal preferences and needs over time. She is embarking on new research at the intersection of careers, gender and digitalisation.
Joëlle van der Meer, MSc
Joëlle van der Meer is an Assistant Professor at the department of Public Administration and Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She conducts research on the changing requirements of civil servants in terms of their role perceptions. She also focuses on how digitalization affects new ways of working and changes the nature of what should be expected of a worker and in particular of “the employee”.