Professor Petra Saskia Bayerl

Head of Research

Petra Saskia Bayerl was Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence on Public Safety Management (CESAM) at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands) as well as Associate Dean of Diversity at the same institution. She holds a masters degree in psychology, linguistics and organizational dynamics from universities in Germany and the USA and gained her PhD from Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (Netherlands).

Her research addresses societal implications of emerging technologies and practices in the security domain and has appeared in numerous international journals, conferences and books. She has extensive experience in security-related EU-funded projects, both as researcher and as advisory board members and member of ethics committees, in a broad range of topics from radicalization and counter-terrorism to community policing and the management of crises.

Publications

Bayerl, P. S., Bates, L. and Akhgar, B. (2023). Securing the smart city: patterns of public acceptance for integrated technological solutions. In: 2023 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). IEEE.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence . Springer Nature.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P., & Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces. Policing and Society, 33 (7), 861-876.
O’Neill, M., Van Der Giessen, M., Bayerl, P. S., Hail, Y., Aston, E. and Houtsonen, J. (2023). Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A dynamic model for community policing in Europe. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 17.