Her PhD thesis was published by Erlbaum under the title "Through the interface-A human activity approach to user interface design".
in 1999 at Aarhus; her habilitation thesis, Computer Applications as Mediators of Design and Use, with opponents Christiane Floyd and Markku Nurminen [fi].
[4] Bødker was a researcher on the UTOPIA (in Danish, Uddannelse, teknik og produkt i arbejdskvalitetsperspektiv, which translates to training, technology and product in work quality perspective) Project from 1981 to 1985, which was initiated by the Nordic Graphic Union.
Originally, the UTOPIA methodology sought to involve users in all aspects of design and development of technologies to be used in their jobs.
[8] In 2015 she won the lifetime achievement award of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) and the International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI).