Research Focus

Ivan Josipovic’s research project “VALOSINT - Valuing Open-Source Intelligence and Evidence in Human Rights Contexts” is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). It explores what makes open data count as valuable intelligence or evidence among OSINT practitioners, technicians, and institutional decision-makers; how their evaluative frameworks align; what value conflicts they encounter; and what data solidarity could look like in the context of OSINT work. Ivan’s previous work has focused on the production of digital evidence through smartphone screenings in European asylum governance. He has published in leading journals in International Relations, Political Science, and Migration Studies. In 2023, he received the Early-Career Researcher Prize from the Journal of Refugee Studies for his article “What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance?”