Lena Enqvist

Associate professor 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.

PI (2027-2029) for the WASP-HS-funded project "Lawful Suspicion: Fair and Accountable AI for Welfare Fraud Detection." The principal investigators for the WASP-funded components of the same project are Lili Jiang (Umeå University) and Henrik Boström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology).

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

Presently active (2025-2027) within the project Policy community or accountability control? Oversight strategies and compliance within the weaker supervision of unemployment and social insurance bureaucracy, financed by the Swedish Unemployment Insurance Inspectorate.

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 supervising two PhD students, one as principal supervisor and one as co-supervisor.

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/ 

Part of the WASP-HS Research Cluster "The Rule of AI - AI, Regulation and Society".