I am a sociologist, and most of my work begins with the same question: what happens to human relationships when they are rearranged by technology, policy or expertise?

My research sits within science and technology studies (STS), and much of it concerns the digitalisation of welfare. I have studied telepresence robots that let hospitalised children attend school from a distance, communication technologies designed to ease loneliness in old age, and the digital tools through which citizens meet the welfare state. I am interested less in what these technologies promise than in what they actually do: how they redefine care, presence, dignity and participation.

Alongside this runs an older and equally persistent thread in my work, on childhood, family, gender and generational relations. With colleagues I have developed methods for studying everyday life through its texts, from the correspondence between homes and schools to the teddy diaries that young children keep with their parents. These small, ordinary documents turn out to be revealing: through them, ideals of family life, parenthood and childhood are quietly produced and negotiated.

I have had the good fortune to work across disciplines, with anthropologists, medical humanities scholars, social workers and computer scientists, and across sectors, with municipalities, technology companies and user organisations. Leading research schools and centres has convinced me that the most interesting questions rarely respect institutional boundaries.

At heart, I remain drawn to the classics of my discipline: how people make meaning together, how institutions shape lives, and how sociology can make visible what we otherwise take for granted.