Katherine WyersUniversity of Oslo · Department of Informatics
Katherine Wyers
MSc Software Engineering
Critical information systems researcher specializing in transgender health equity and social categorization
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Introduction
I am a researcher working on health inequities for transgender people. My work focuses on how ICTs mediate the relationship between transgender people and health. I investigate how transgender people are affected by information systems, how these systems determine the choices that transgender people can make, and how we can design systems that give transgender and gender-diverse people the freedom to live with dignity
Education
August 2021 - July 2025
Publications
Publications (3)
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...
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...
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...
