Academic interests
- Digital criminology
- Qualitative methods
- Illegal markets
- Social media
- Illegal drugs
Silje Anderdal Bakken is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law. Her main research interests is situated within the field of digital criminology. She is also interested in qualitative methods, more particularly digital methods such as digital ethnography and digital interviews.
She is part of the ERC-project "Digital DNA" led by Mareile Kaufmann that looks at the changing relationships between technology, DNA and evidence. In the first part of the project, Silje will look at the consumerization of DNA and its relationship to DNA as police evidence. The second part of the project concerns ideas on possible technological futures of DNA as evidence and what role this has on today’s development of the field.
In her PhD, Silje explored through qualitative observations and interviews how illegal drugs are sold digitally (mainly on social media and darknet). Her focus was on how people within these illegal markets interact and behave, and how this is now taking place digitally.
Silje is responsible for several courses on Bachelor and Master level. She also supervises several bachelor and master students on topics such as crime and crime prevention on social media, and how various forms of crime is presented in different types of media.
Courses taught
- KRIM1100 Introduction to criminology
- KRIM2963 Crime and technology
- KRIM4963 Crime and technology
- KRIM2101 Bachelor thesis
- KRIM5001 Master thesis in Criminology (supervision)
- RSOS5001 Master thesis in Sociology of Law (supervision)
- SVMET1010 Qualitative Methods (Bachelor's level)
- SOS4010 Qualitative Methods (Master's level)
- KRIM4101 Theoretical perspectives in criminology
- KRIM1300 Social control
- KRS4106 Qualitative Methods (Master's level)
- JUS4122 Sociology of Law
- KRS4210 Criminology in practice
Background
Silje Anderdal Bakken submitted her PhD dissertation at the Department of Sociology at University of Copenhagen. The title of her disseration was Drug dealing on social media. A sociological study of risk, trust, and capital in illegal markets. She also has a Master's and Bachelor's degree in criminology from the University of Oslo, and a Bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Bergen. In 2022-2023, she worked as a university lecturer at IKRS.