Gunilla Bradley (GB) is Professor
Emerita in Informatics at Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH) – in Stockholm. GB is
originally a psychologist and has a
broad background in the social and
behavioural sciences. Her research
concerns the interplay between
Information and Communication
Technology (ICT), Human Beings, and
Society – Social Informatics.
Beginning in 1973, she initiated
research programs on computerization
and working life. Her
crossdisciplinary research groups
were hosted by Stockholm University,
Department of Sociology, for twenty
years. She has then been a visiting
professor at Stanford University two
years and professor of Technology
and Social Change at the Royal
Institute of Technology. 1997 –
2001. In 2004 GB organized the world
conference in Stockholm on
“Organizational Design and
Management” (ODAM) with the subtitle
“New Technology – Challenges for
Human Organization and Human
Resource Development in a Changing
World".
GB served as professor in
Informatics at Umeå University and
Mid Sweden University. In 1997 GB
received the prestigious Namur Award
from IFIP for her pioneering
research to increase the social
awareness of the impact of ICT. GB
has authored thirteen books and
contributed extensively in
international scientific journals
and the popular science press. Her
latest book Social and Community
Informatics – Humans on the Net
(Routledge 2006) is widely used in
both ICT related disciplines and in
the social sciences. In 2008 GB was
invited as guest professor at Paris
Lodron University in Salzburg. She
composed and chaired the IADIS
conference on “ICT, Society and
Humans” that initially took place in
Amsterdam 2008, followed by Algarve,
Freiburg, Rom and Lisbon
(International Association for
Developing the Information Society,
NGO). In 2010 she was honored by a
“Fest Symposium” at the Linnaeus
University in Sweden and a
“Festschrift entitled “Information
and Communication Technologies,
Society and Human Beings –Theory and
Framework” (IGI Publishers 2011).
More than 40 distinguished
researchers from all continents of
the world contributed with chapters.
Selected books are:
- IN THE ERA OF CONVERGENCE - One Woman’s Exploration of Humans and Digitalization from its Beginnings. Stockholm: Inventio 2022. 267 pp included 40 pp with coloured illustrations. ISBN Printed book 978-91-527-1808-7. ISBN E-book 978-91-527-1809-4
- "THE GOOD ICT SOCIETY - From Theory to
Actions” 2017 (Routledge)
- "Information and Communication
Technologies, Society and Human
Beings – Theory and Framework.
Honoring Professor Gunilla
Bradley". (Editors: Darek Haftor
& Anita Mirijamdotter). IGI
Global 2011. ISBN 978-1-60960-0.
- "Social
and Community Informatics -
Humans on the Net" 2006
(Routledge)
- "Humans on
the Net - Information and
Communication Technology (ICT)
Work Organization and Human
Beings" 2001, Stockholm, SE:
(Prevent)
- "Human
Factors in Organisational Design
and Management" - subtitled "New
Technology - Challenges for
Human Organisation and Human
Resource Development in a
Changing World" 1994 (Bradley
and Hendrick (Eds.), (North
Holland - Elsevier)
- "Computers
and the Psychosocial Work
Environment" 1989 (Taylor and
Francis)
- "Computer
Technology, Work Life, and
Communication ". The Swedish
Delegation for Long Term
Research. Stockholm 1977
(Liber). (in Swedish) For
details see Bibliography.
Educational background:
- Competency for full
professorship in Technology and
Social Change, Linköping
University, 1984
- Competency as associate
professor, Gothenburg
University, 1973
- Ph. D. in Educational
Psychology, Gothenburg
University, 1972
- Authorized Psychologist, 1972
- Medical studies Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm
- Bachelor´s
degree in Psychology, Sociology,
Ethnography, and Pedagogics
(1961)
