Katherine Wyers

Katherine Wyers
University of Oslo · Department of Informatics

MSc Software Engineering
Information systems researcher | infrastructuring | marginalized identities | LGBTQ+ identities

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Introduction
I am an information systems researcher working on social inclusion for marginalized identities, focusing on transgender, gender diverse, and queer identities. In my PhD research, I use ethnographic methods to study the impact to the Indian transgender and gender diverse communities of a gender-based digital identity platform mediating access to the Indian welfare state. I focus on a rural district in north India. My research uses a critical, feminist, queer, intersectional perspective
Education
August 2021 - July 2025
University of Oslo
Field of study
  • Information Systems

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Publications (11)
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The ICT4D community, and the IFIP Working Group 9.4, is bound by a shared interest in social emancipation through digital technologies. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are often evoked to highlight the many social, economic, and environmental arenas where we are active. However, a perspective centring on queer issues is notably absent from...
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Little is known about how digital identity platforms can be managed and operated in countries where governments have introduced anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. This work-in-progress study explores the tensions associated with digital identity platforms in these contexts. It draws on concepts from actor network theory to analyze field data collected by the...
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While research in healthcare service provision for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people has seen rapid progress, health information communication technologies (health ICTs) research on this key population is falling behind. Blindspots in the literature risk perpetuating systemic barriers to healthcare access. This critical, cross-disciplinar...
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This lecture introduces masters and PhD students to some of the issues arising for LGBTQ+ people in relation to ICTs. It is a 2 hour lecture including a scenario to illustrate issues and a theoretical lecture presenting several analytical lenses to understand the issues arising in the scenario. The scenario is a townhall-style discussion with sta...
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Little is known about how digital identity platforms can be managed and operated in countries where governments have introduced anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. This work-in-progress study explores the tensions associated with digital identity platforms in these contexts. It draws on concepts from actor network theory to analyse field data collected by the...
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This research seeks, through empirically grounded analysis, to make visible the lived experiences of transgender people as they access gender-affirming healthcare programmes, and whether the systems of classification magnify or mitigate any challenges they might face in the process. It builds this understand using the empirical data. Specifically,...
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From Manuel Castells we learn that to break the trap of marginalization and exclusion, it is fundamentally important to firstly make information about the problem visible, and only then can advocacy and action be developed to break out of this trap. Without such visibility, there is the danger of continued and systematic marginalization. Towards...
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Digital platforms enable new interactions in our everyday lives. However, they are not neutral tools. They influence our decisions and they risk amplifying and perpetuating existing inequalities (Morrow, 2014). Design decisions made by system developers impact on people’s ability to lead the lives they value. One population that is particularly at...
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Kimberlé Crenshaw described how the legal system was failing women of colour because of their intersecting identities. To do this, she introduced the intersectional lens that lets researchers recognise the complex intersection of multiple identities in all people and explore how these impact on opportunities and choices in life (Crenshaw, 1991). Th...
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The ICT4D community, and the IFIP Working Group 9.4, is bound by a shared interest in social emancipation through digital technologies. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are often evoked to highlight the many social, economic, and environmental arenas where we are active. However, a perspective centring on queer issues is notably absent from...

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