Katarina L Gidlund focus on how different values are coupled with IS design processes from different perspectives (such as modernity, accountability, openness and sustainability).
Critical theory, deconstruction, and a broad concept of design guides her work which is performed in several practical settings, but mainly in public sector (so called eGovernment research).
Gidlund is co-coordinator of the Swedish eGovernment Research Network, editor of the International Journal of Public Information Systems and part of the programme committee of a number of international conferences.
She is also on the board for the National Association for eCompetence (REK) and a member of the jury for Guldlänken, a national award for the best public e-service in Sweden. At present she is Associate professor in Informatics at Mid Sweden University.
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