Rosamunde Van Brakel
Biography
Dr. Rosamunde Van Brakel is an assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Fundamental Rights Research Centre and Crime & Society Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 2021 she teaches and coordinates the Master course Legal, Ethical and Social Issues of Artificial Intelligence. During the 2025-2026 academic year she will also teach the 1st year Bachelor course Sociology and Sociology of Law to law and criminology students. She has been researching the social and ethical consequences of (algorithmic) surveillance technologies in the public sector since 2006. She defended her PhD Dissertation in Criminology: Taming the future: A rhizomatic analysis of preemptive surveillance of children in 2018. Since finishing her PhD she has been conducting research on the democratic governance and harms of surveillance, crime control, risk assessments and AI. Currently she is doing research on more-than-human rhizomatic harms of digital crime control. She is member of the network and editorial board of the journal Surveillance & Society and the editorial board of the dutch-language criminological journal Panopticon. She has co-edited six books, co-authored one book and her work has appeared in journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Surveillance & Society, Computer, Law & Security Review, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Cahiers Politiestudies (Journal of Police Studies).
RESEARCH LINE
Current Research Projects
Smart Video Surveillance in Smart Cities
Courses (2025-2026)
Location
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium