Lena Enqvist

Senior Lecturer and docent specialising in administrative law. My areas of scholarly interest are administrative law, constitutional law, social security law, law and technology, medical/health law, privacy and access to information.

My present research covers the digitalisation and automation, as well as artificial intelligence utilsation of public sector services and decision-making. It also covers legal dimensions of cross-actor as well as cross-agency cooperation for return-to-work from the social security system. Other research areas of interest are also the interplay between administrative and constitutional law, as well as administrative law from a rule-of law perspective.

Presently active as PI (2024-2028) in Legal Dimensions of Collaborative Rehabilitation - the role of Swedish Social Security, Employers, and Occupational Health in Enabling Return-to-Work for Employees with Mental Health Issues, financed by FORTE

Also presently active (2021-2025) within the project HYDE – Human agency and the rule of law in semi-automated decision-making systems, financed by The Swedish Research Council. 

I currently serve as the Director of post graduate studies/Third cycle education at the Department of Law, Umeå University.

I am currently also co-supervising two doctoral candidate projects.

Miscellaneous

Editor at Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift (Swedish Journal of Administrative law, est. 1938),
http://www.forvaltningsrattslig.org/

Associate editor at the European Review of Digital Administration & Law,
https://www.erdalreview.eu/

Affiliated with the Umeå Centre for Digital Social research, DIGSUM,
https://www.umu.se/centrum-for-digital-samhallsforskning/ 

Affiliated with the TAIGA – Centre for Transdisciplinary AI,
https://www.umu.se/en/centre-for-transdisciplinary-ai/