
Dr Sanja Milivojevic
LLB, LLM, PhD
Expertise
My research is in two main areas: borders and mobility (border control, human trafficking) and crime and technology. I also do interdisciplinary work in digital futures, AI, robotics, gender and victimisation, and human rights.
Current positions
Associate Professor
Bristol Digital Futures InstituteAssociate Professor
School for Policy Studies
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Research interests
Dr Sanja Milivojevic is an Associate Professor in Digital Futures at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. She is a CI at the Centre for Sociodigital Futures at the University of Bristol, Co-Director of Border Criminologies/Research Associate at the University of Oxford, and Adjunct Associate Professor at La TrobeUniversity, Melbourne. Sanja holds LL.B. and LL.M. from Belgrade University’s Law School, Serbia, and a PhD from Monash University, Australia. Her research interests are mobilities(borders, border control, human trafficking), digital frontier technologies (AI, robotics), gender and victimisation, international criminal justice and human rights. Sanja is a recipient of UK, Australian and international research grants, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, Oslo, Belgrade and Zagreb, and a Public Interest Law Fellow at ColumbiaUniversity’s Law School in New York. She has published six books and over 60 publications in English, Serbian and Italian. Sanja’s latest book is Crime and punishment in the Future Internet: Digital Frontier Technologies and Criminology in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge 2021)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Satisficing Trust over Time in Human-Robot Teams
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/02/2023 to 31/01/2026
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2022 to 30/04/2027
La Trobe University Publishing Assistance Grant
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2017 to 01/01/2018
La Trobe University Start-Up Grant
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2017 to 01/01/2018
UNSW competitive research grant: The rise of the drone - a social sciences perspective on unpiloted aerial vehicles
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2016 to 01/01/2017
Publications
Selected publications
22/04/2021Crime and punishment in the future internet
Crime and punishment in the future internet
The ‘future Internet’ and crime
Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Border policing and security technologies
Border policing and security technologies
Recent publications
22/01/2024Steps Towards Satisficing Distributed Dynamic Team Trust
Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series
Swift Trust in Mobile Ad Hoc Human-Robot Teams
TAS '24: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Co-Movement and Trust Development in Human-Robot Teams
Co-Movement and Trust Development in Human-Robot Teams
Incorporating a ‘ladder of trust’ into dynamic Allocation of Function in Human-Autonomous Agent Collectives
Dighe e chiuse di confine: La detenzione a cielo aperto in Serbia
Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia