School of Social and Political Science

Isadora Dullaert

Job Title

PhD student

Research 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

Dr Gëzim Krasniqi

Dr Karen Gregory 

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.

Works within

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