Morten Hansen is a Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. Morten was trained at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and Aarhus University. His current research focuses on AI governance, and AI’s impact on higher education as a process, outcome, and institution. His current teaching portfolio focuses on digital management and digital economy, and he specialises in public capacity building through technological innovations.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Higher education
• AI
• Digital economy
• Critical market studies
• Machine-human reconfigurations

Selected publications

• Hansen, M. (2025). Thinking with and between social orders: Corporate embedded colleges and their public rivals. Higher Education.
• Hansen, M. (2025). An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19. International Review of Education.
• Hansen, M. (2024). From attention economy to cognitive lock-ins. Big Data & Society, 11(3).
• Hansen, M. & Komljenovic, J. (2023.) Automating Learning Situations in EdTech: Techno-Commercial Logic of Assetisation. Postdigital Science and Education, 5, 100–116.
• Hansen, M. & Van den Bossche, A. (2022). From newspaper supplement to data company: Tracking rhetorical change in the Times Higher Education’s rankings coverage. Poetics, 92, 101637.