Biography
Gabriele Jacobs is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Culture at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (ESSB). Her research interests include: Organizational change, justice and identity, leadership, international public safety management, civic engagement, co-creation, methodology.
Since September 2022, Gabriele Jacobs is leading the ongoing NWA project AI-MAPS (Artificial Intelligence in Multi-Agency Public Safety), a multidisciplinary research initiative involving over 20 partners from academia, the private and public sectors, and civil society. Previously, from January 2020 to June 2022, she served as Dean of Erasmus University College (EUC). From 2000 to 2019, Gabriele was a faculty member at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (RSM), where she held the role of Academic Director for the International Business Administration Bachelor Programme (IBA) from 2016 to 2019. She also co-directed the Centre of Excellence on Public Safety Management (CESAM) at RSM from 2014 to 2019.
Gabriele earned her PhD from the University of Münster, Germany, in 1998 as part of a multidisciplinary PhD program funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Between 1992 and 1999, she worked as a researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Cologne in the Department of Economic and Social Psychology. In 1998, she was a Visiting Professor at HEC Paris in the Department of Human Resource Management. Gabriele frequently presents her work at international conferences and publishes in a variety of academic journals, covering organizational behavior, marketing, management, and applied fields.
She coordinates and participates in several EU projects focused on safety and security and is involved in national research initiatives. Notably, from 2016 to 2019, she led the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance on "International Security Management," which established sustainable resources and structures to support international security collaborations. This alliance also developed the MOOC "International Security Management," which, by 2024, has attracted over 29,000 learners worldwide. Between 2010 and 2014, she coordinated COMPOSITE (Comparative Police Studies in the EU), an FP7 EU project analyzing change processes within police forces across Europe. Gabriele’s academic passion stems from collaboration and dialogue with interdisciplinary scholars, students, and multi-sector practitioners. She believes academia should actively address societal challenges to promote sustainable and innovative solutions.
Gabriele Jacobs is married with a son and two daughters. Her family also includes a dog and an adopted parrot. She enjoys traveling, sports, reading, and admiring art, especially photography. The family has a shared hobby of exploring the Netherlands by boat, with their home harbor in the scenic Biesbosch nature reserve.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- g.jacobs@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Gabriele Jacobs, Friso van Houdt & ginger coons (2024) - Studying Surveillance AI-cologies in Public Safety: How AI is in the World and the World in AI - Surveillance & Society, 22 (2), 160-178 - doi: 10.24908/ss.v22i2.16104 - [link]
- Kate Horton, Gabriele Jacobs, Petra Saskia Bayerl, Mila Gasco, Marloes Rothengatter, Karen Elliott, Stefanie Giljohann & Claudia Lenuta Rus (2023) - In Search of the Silver-Lining: Police Officers' Attributions and Responses to Stakeholder Critique - Public Administration Review - doi: 10.1111/puar.13753 - [link]
- Vivien Butot, Gabriele Jacobs, Petra Saskia Bayerl, Josué Amador & Pendar Nabipour (2023) - Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance - Surveillance & Society, 21 (1), 61-82 - doi: 10.24908/ss.v21i1.15665 - [link]
- Petra Saskia Bayerl & Gabriele Jacobs (2022) - Who is responsible for customers’ privacy?: Effects of first versus third party handling of privacy contracts on continuance intentions - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185 - doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122039 - [link]
- Gabriele Jacobs, Ilona Suojanen, Kate Horton & Saskia Bayerl (2021) - International Security Management - New Solutions to Complexity - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-42523-4
- Gabriele Jacobs (12 December 2023) - 'De overdreven focus op veiligheid moet veranderen in een gezonde focus op vrijheid‘
- Gabriele Jacobs (31 July 2023) - GLOBAL ROUND UP SECTOR WEEKLY: UNIVERSITY NEWSLETTER OF WEEK-ENDED JUL 30, 2023
- Gabriele Jacobs (6 December 2022) - -Erasmus University Rotterdam : Smart technologies should bring people together, not drive them apart'; Why citizens need to be part of the discussion about how technology is used
- Gabriele Jacobs (31 January 2022) - -Erasmus University Rotterdam : Consortium led by Erasmus University Rotterdam receives prestigious 2 million euro grant
- Gabriele Jacobs (29 October 2020) - Erasmus University Rotterdam: Kees Vink Appointed to Endowed Chair 'From Big Natural History to Urban Ecology'
- Gabriele Jacobs (5 September 2019) - Gabriele Jacobs Is New Dean of Erasmus University College
- Marta Szymanowska, Rob van Tulder, Rene de Koster, Erik van Raaij, Dirk Schoenmaker, Steef van de Velde, Steve Kennedy, Gabriele Jacobs, Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Ferdinand Jaspers, Michaéla Schippers & Frank Wijen (11 June 2019) - New online course: Driving Business Towards The SDGs
- K (Klaus) Heine, EF (Evert) Stamhuis & G (Gabriele) Jacobs (2022) - Artificial Intelligence for Multi-Agency Public Safety Issues (AI-MAPS)
PD - Berater der öffentlichen Hand
- Start date approval
- October 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- BERLIN
- Description
- Think Tank Öffentliche Sicherheit
Resilience Alliance
- Start date approval
- October 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- LEEUWARDEN
- Description
- Bestuurslid Pro Bono netwerk "Resilience Alliance"
4.1 Public Management
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM1011
ArtificiaI Intelligence and Societal Imp
- Level
- Minor
- Year Level
- Minor
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM9007
4.3 Internship Master PA MHRV
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-6020
4.3 Thesis Master of Change and HR
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-6030
3.3 People Management in Complex Org.
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-C3040