Mrs. Kelsie Nabben
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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kelsie.nabben@rmit.edu.au
About
Dr. Kelsie Nabben is a Research Fellow at RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) in Melbourne, Australia (see here https://www.admscentre.org.au/the-use-of-automated-knowledge-in-organisations-project/). She completed her PhD as a scholarship recipient at RMIT University’s ADM+S on the topic of resilience in decentralised technologies, and was awarded an RMIT Vice Chancellor’s HDR Prize for Research Engagement and Impact. In 2024, Dr. Nabben completed a Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute focusing on accountability in blockchain systems as a context of digital private ordering and self-governance with Dr Primavera De Filippi and BlockchainGov.
Nabben’s research has been applied in various settings, including contributions to an Australian Federal blockchain working group and the development of international policy toolkits on ‘Decentralised Autonomous Organisations’ for the World Economic Forum. Additionally, she works on industry projects with engineering firm BlockScience and frequently shares her perspectives through peer-reviewed publications, national news, and radio.
Research fields
- 4408 Political science
- 4604 Cybersecurity and privacy
- 4608 Human-centred computing
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 4804 Law in context
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 4407 Policy and administration
- 4401 Anthropology
Academic positions
- Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Feb 2025 – Present
Research interests
Dr Kelsie Nabben is an ethnographic researcher specialising in the social impacts of emerging technologies, particularly decentralised digital infrastructure (including blockchains, peer-to-peer protocols, and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) and other algorithmic systems (such as Large-Language-Models). Her interdisciplinary research involves analysis of the interplay between social and technical elements of digital infrastructure with a focus on security and accountability in contexts of digital governance. Practically, she has published and conducted industry projects on COVID-19 digital responses, software system vulnerability mapping methods, cybernetics and digital-physical systems, and the governance of algorithmic systems.
