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My research focuses on the impact of AI and digital technologies on welfare areas such as education and child welfare services. I am particularly interested in how data-driven technologies influence the organization of welfare and the relationship between the state and citizens. Previously, I have conducted research on data-driven governance and management, including an ethnographic study of the Ministry of Education’s “Data Warehouse” and national tests. Theoretically and methodologically, I draw inspiration from anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and organizational theory.
Datavisions: Teaching in the Age of Digital Data Visualizations (Principal Investigator). Funded by the Research Council for Culture and Communication (FKK) from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF). 2021-2025.
Algorithms, Data, and Democracy (co-Principal Investigator): Collective project funded by the Velux & Villum Foundations. 2021-2031.
REPAI: Responsible AI and Value Creation (co-Principal Investigator): Collective project funded by Grundfos. 2024-2028.
Teaching
Educational Studies (MA):
Governance and Management of Education and Learning
Master in Educational Leadership (Executive Education):
Coordinator and member of the educational agency for Master Education programmes.
Strategic Educational Leadership
Leadership and Organization of Professional Practitioners
Master's Project
PhD Courses:
The Ends of Data: Theories, Methods, and Interventions in Critical Data Studies (2024)
Living with Algorithms: Power, Practices, and People in a Datafied World (2022, 2024)
Technology, Subjectivity, and Affect (2021)
Governance Infrastructures (2018)
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Doctoral School of Organization and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Promises of Reflexivity: Managing and Researching Inclusive Schools
1 Apr 2009 → 31 Mar 2012
Award Date: 29 Jun 2012
Cand.soc (politisk kommunikation og Ledelse), Copenhagen Business School
Award Date: 1 Dec 2008
Keywords
- Education policy
- Organisation and management theory
- Philosophy and history of technology
- Relationship between state and municipalities
- Administration and bureaucracy
- Organisational changes and IT
- Sociotechnical perspectives on work, management and technology
Areas of expertise
- Education
- Science and technology studies
- Organization studies
- Artificial intelligence
- Datafication and digitalization
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DATAWELL: The Datafication of Wellbeing (DATAWELL): New Pedagogical Practices and Interventions in the Danish public school
Ratner, H. F. (Participant)
01/02/2025 → 31/01/2028
Project: Research
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Responsible AI for Value Creation
Ratner, H. F. (Participant)
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2028
Project: Research
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Data visions: Teaching in the age of digital data visualizations
Ratner, H. F. (PI)
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research
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ADD: Algoritmer, Data og Demokrati
Schrøder, I. (Participant), Ratner, H. F. (PI), Isfeldt, A. (Participant) & Laage-Thomsen, J. (Participant)
01/11/2021 → 01/05/2031
Project: Research
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ADD: Algorithms, data and democracy
Ratner, H. F. (CoPI), Isfeldt, A. (Participant), Laage-Thomsen, J. (Participant), Schrøder, I. (Participant) & Mørch Groth, E. (Participant)
09/04/2021 → 28/02/2031
Project: Research
Research output
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An Emerging Welfare Data Economy?
Schrøder, I., Laage-Thomsen, J. & Ratner, H. F., 15 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) Value economy: versions, sites, and tools. Asdal, K. & Dogonova, L. (eds.). Mattering PressResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Citizens’ data afterlives: Practices of dataset inclusion in machine learning for public welfare
Ratner, H. F. & Thylstrup, N. B., Mar 2025, In: AI & Society. 40, 3, p. 1183-1193 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Computational implementations of Responsible AI: From the Right to be Forgotten to Machine Unlearning
Ratner, H. F. & Moeslund, T., 13 Mar 2025, (E-pub / Early view) In: AI and Society. p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Comment/debate/letter to the editor › Research › peer-review
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Data visualizations and teachers’ expertise: Caring for students in a world of automated assessment
Rokoguniwai, M. B. & Ratner, H. F., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Palgrave Handbook of Science and Technology Studies in Education. Gourley, L., Williamson, B., Komlovich, J., Piattoeva, N. & Gorur, R. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 14 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Data visualizations as aesthetic devices of valuation: Diverging views of the ‘good’ pupil performance
Ratner, H. F., Sept 2025, In: European Educational Research Journal. 24, 5, p. 639-653 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
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Keynote: Generativ AI: Nye informationspraksisser under forandring?
Ratner, H. F. (Consultant)
29 Jan 2025Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy
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Writing with LLM’s in higher education
Ratner, H. F. (Lecturer)
14 Jan 2025Activity: Presentations, memberships, employment, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Doing Ethnography in and of Digital and Datafied Worlds
Ratner, H. F. (Organizer)
2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
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Hvordan spørger vi, så alle bliver klogere?Webinarserie om kunstig intelligens, åndsfrihed og demokrati
Ratner, H. F. (Speaker)
10 Dec 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
Press/Media
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Det offentlige skal være verdensførende i usexet AI
01/12/2024
1 Media contribution
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Tænk så det knager - også når du bruger kunstig intelligens
29/11/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Juridisk direktør vil undgå mytedannelse, men fastholder lukketheden om Skats AI-profilering
31/10/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Courses
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Living with Algorithms: Power, Practices, and People in a Datafied World
Ratner, H. F. 12/12/2022 → 14/12/2022
Course: Teaching