STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Marta Poblet Balcell
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
Business
School / Department:
Graduate School of Business and Law
Phone:
+61 3 9925 0134
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
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Teodoro, E.,Gonzalez-Conejero, J.,Varela, R.,Casanovas, P. (2017). A co-regulatory approach to stay safe online: reporting inappropriate content with the MediaKids mobile app In: Journal of Family Studies, 23, 180 - 197
- 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.,Garcia-Cuesta, E.,Casanovas, P. (2017). (In Press) Crowdsourcing roles, methods and tools for data-intensive disaster management In: Information Systems Frontiers, , 1 - 17
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Fitzpatrick, M.,Chhetri, P. (2017). Microtasking: Redefining crowdsourcing practices in emergency management In: Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 32, 47 - 53
- Luz, N.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Silva, N. (2016). Crowdsourcing Dispute Resolution: Survey and Challenges In: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict Resolution, IGI Global, United States
- Rowe, M.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Thomson, J. (2015). Creating value through crowdsourcing: The antecedent conditions In: Outlooks and Insights on Group Decision and Negotiation: Proceedings of the15th International Conference, GDN 2015, Warsaw, Poland, June 22-26, 2015,, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland
- Poblet Balcell, M.,McMurray, A. (2015). Applying web 3.0 resources on disaster management initiatives to facilitate information retrieval, visualization, and content integration: Case study of using Wikis in Croatia In: Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education: Growing Personalization and Wider Interconnections in Learning, Information Age Publishing, United States
- Luz, N.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Silva, N.,Novais, P. (2015). Defining human-machine micro-task workflows for constitution making In: Outlooks and Insights on Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer International Publishing, Germany
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Aryani, A.,Caldecott, K.,Sellis, T.,Casanovas, P. (2014). Open-access grant data: Towards meta-research innovation In: Proceeedings of the 27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2014, Krakow, Poland, 10-12 December 2014
- Poblet, M.,Garcia-Cuesta, E.,Casanovas, P. (2014). IT enabled crowds: leveraging the geomobile revolution for disaster management In: Proceedings of the Sintelnet WG5 Workshop on Crowd Intelligence: Foundations, Methods and Practices, Barcelona, Catalonia, 8-9 January 2014
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 Prof Doc Completions4 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)
- 2012 Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship (Poblet-Balcell). Funded by: RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship from (2013 to 2017)