STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Marta Poblet Balcell
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
Business
School / Department:
Graduate School of Business and Law
Phone:
99250134
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research interests
- Law and technology
- Conflict management
- Mobile technologies
- Crisis mapping
- Social media
- Crowdsourcing
- Ethics
- 2002 Ph.D. Stanford University (Stanford Law School, J.S.D.)
- 2000 Master Stanford University (Master Program in International Legal Studies)
- 1994 GradDip Political Sciences and Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
- 1992 GradDip Law, University of Barcelona
Memberships and Associations
- 2011 United Nations Online Volunteer
- 2011 Scientific Advisory Board, Springer Series on Law, Technology and Governance
- 2010 Standby Task Force
- 2010 Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research Network
- 2010 International Network of Crisis Mappers
- 2010 Scientific Board of the Catalan Journal of Intellectual History
- 2010 Editorial Board of the IDT Series on Law and Technology
- 2003 Editorial Board of IDP: Internet, Derecho y Política
- 2001 Former Editorial Board Member of the Stanford Journal of International Law
Positions
- 2011-13 Director of the UAB Institute of Law and Technology (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2012 Visiting researcher, Victoria University, Faculty of Business and Law
- 2012- Professor at the Erasmus Mundus Intl. Doctorate in Law, Science and Technology
- 2012- Media Monitoring coordinator, Standby Task Force
- 2011- Project Evaluator for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- 2007 Project Evaluator for the EU 7th Framework Program (Social Sciences Panel)
- 2004- Lecturer in Conflict Resolution and Peace Building, Open University of Catalonia
Honors and awards
- 2012 Successful Innovation at the Innovating Justice Awards
- 2011 United Nations Online Volunteering Award
- 2011 International Association for Emergency Management Global Competition
- 2007 ICREA Junior Researcher Fellowship
- 2006 Advanced Research Award, Catalan Agency for the Quality of Research
- 2001 Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship
- 2000 Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship1999 Fulbright Scholarship
- 1997 Finalist, Catalan Association of Sociology Prize
- Karanasios, S.,Cooper, V.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Hayes, P. (2019). Inter-organizational collaboration, information flows, and the use of social media during disasters: a focus on vulnerable communities� In: 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2019, Maui, Hawaii, 9-11 January 2019
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Garcia-Cuesta, E.,Casanovas, P. (2018). Crowdsourcing roles, methods and tools for data-intensive disaster management In: Information Systems Frontiers, 20, 1363 - 1379
- Aryani, A.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Unsworth, K.,Wang, J.,Evans, B.,Devaraju, A.,Hausstein, B.,Klas, C.,Zapilko, B.,Kaplun, S. (2018). A Research Graph dataset for connecting research data repositories using RD-Switchboard In: Scientific Data, 5, 1 - 10
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Kolieb, J. (2018). Responding to Human Rights Abuses in the Digital Era: New Tools, Old Challenges In: Stanford Journal of International Law, 54, 259 - 283
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Karanasios, S.,Cooper, V. (2018). Look after Your Neighbours: Social Media and Vulnerable Groups during Extreme Weather Events In: Proceedings of the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Asia Pacific Conference (ISCRAM ASIA 2018), Wellington, New Zealand, 5-7 November 2018
- Poblet Balcell, M. (2018). Distributed, privacy-enhancing technologies in the 2017 Catalan referendum on independence: New tactics and models of participatory democracy In: First Monday, 23, 1 - 13
- Ng, Y.,Coghill, K.,Thornton-Smith, P.,Poblet Balcell, M. (2017). Democratic representation and the property franchise in Australian local government In: Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76, 221 - 236
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Fitzpatrick, M.,Chhetri, P. (2017). Microtasking: Redefining crowdsourcing practices in emergency management In: Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 32, 47 - 53
- Casanovas, P.,Mendelson, D.,Poblet Balcell, M. (2017). A linked democracy approach for regulating public health data In: Health and Technology, 7, 519 - 537
- Tennant, J.,Dugan, J.,Graziotin, D.,et al, .,Poblet Balcell, M. (2017). A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review In: F1000Research, 6, 1 - 64
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
3 PhD Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions
Law and technology, Conflict management, Crisis and disaster management, Crowdsourcing, Ethics (related to these aspects)
- Building resilience and inclusion amongst vulnerable populations through social media. Funded by: National Disaster Resilience Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2018)