Isadora Dullaert
Job Title
PhD student
City (Address)
EdinburghResearch interests
Research interests
Digital identities, self-sovereign identity, identification, citizenship, passports, blockchain, borders, digital sociology, political sociology
Background
I am broadly interested in digital identity/identification, citizenship and power.
My research looks at self-sovereign identity technology (SSI), in the context of the European Digital Identity Wallet. I explore how a digital identity model that was originally designed for the internet, is adapted to the domain of the state. I am particularly interested in the ideological assumptions embedded in the technology, and the impacts on citizenship and power dynamics.
Supervision team
Qualifications
PhD, Sociology, University of Edinburgh (2020- ongoing)
MA Legal and Political Theory, UCL (2019-2020)
MSc Nationalism Studies, University of Edinburgh (2018-2019)
BA Liberal Arts & Sciences, major in World Politics, Leiden University (2014-2017)
Awards
Chrystal McMillan Scholarship, University of Edinburgh (2020-2023)
Nominated for EUSA Teaching Awards, category 'Student tutor of the year' (2022-2023)
Tom Nairn Prize for best academic performance in MSc Nationalism Studies, University of Edinburgh (2019)
Teaching
Tutor on Professional Issues (2023)
Tutor on Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society (2022-2024)
Tutor on Sociology 1B: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems (2023-2024)
Presentations
(Co-presenter) ‘Digital Wallets, Migration, and Technological Stratifications Across Citizenship Divides’, with Keren Weitzberg (UCL), MigTec Workshop, Utrecht, 8-11 April 2024.
(Presenter) What is in your wallet? Linking self-sovereign identity technology to data justice policies. Data Justice Conference, University of Cardiff, 19-20 June 2023.
(Presenter) Self-sovereign identity technology: an empowering tool? Digital Doppelgangers Workshop, Data & Society, New York. 4-5 May 2023. [online]
(Presenter) What does it mean to be self-sovereign? Theorising the rise of digital identity wallets. Platform Social Inaugural Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK. 25 April 2023.
(Co-presenter) Processes of Vulnerabilisation in e-ID: Lessons From India’s Electronic Public Distribution System and the UK’s EU Settlement Scheme, with Besse, J., Taylor, S. and Sai, V. STS Conference Graz, Austria. 2-4 May 2022.
(Presenter) The Conflation of Legal and Digital Identity: How Digital ID is Shaping the Legal Identity Space. Governance by Infrastructure Workshop, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. March 17-18 2022.
(Presenter) Borders, Digital Identities and Sociological Distance. New Directions Conference 'Sociologically Distanced', University of Edinburgh, UK. 5-6 May 2021 (online).
Publications
Dullaert, I. (2024) ‘The European Digital Identity Wallet: Why it matters and to whom’, report for Caribou Digital. Available at: https://www.cariboudigital.net/publication/the-european-digital-identit…
Dullaert, I. (2023) ‘Bedside Books: Ali Smith’, The Sociological Review. Available at: https://thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/bedside-books-for-june-2023/
Dullaert, I. (2023) 'Book Review: License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport by Patrick Bixby', LSE Review of Books.
Dullaert, I. (2022) 'Book Review: The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou', LSE Review of Books.
Dullaert, I. (2021) 'Book Review: Statelessness: A Modern History by Mira L. Siegelberg', LSE Review of Books.