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- Professor
- Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Andrew Clement is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program and co-founded the Identity Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI). With a PhD in Computer Science, he has had longstanding research and teaching interests in the social implications of information/communication technologies and participatory design. Among his recent privacy/surveillance research projects, are: Snowden Archives(link is external), an on-line searchable collection of all documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden subsequently published by news media (in collaboration with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE); IXmaps.ca(link is external), an internet mapping tool that helps make more visible NSA warrantless wiretapping activities and the routing of Canadian personal data through the U.S. even when the origin and destination are both in Canada; Seeing Through the Cloud(link is external), which examined extra-national outsourcing of eCommunications services, especially by universities; and SurveillanceRights.ca(link is external), which documents (non)compliance of video surveillance installations with privacy regulations and helps citizens understand their related privacy rights.
In Memoriam: Arthur Cockfield, HBA (University of Western Ontario), LL.B (Queen's University), JSM and JSD (Stanford University). Art was an Associate Professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law where he was appointed as a Queen's National Scholar. Prior to joining Queen's, he worked as a lawyer in Toronto and as a law professor in San Diego. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas and a senior research fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Professor Cockfield authored, co-authored or edited nine books and over forty academic articles and book chapters that focus on tax law as well as law and technology theory and privacy law. He was the recipient of a number of fellowships and external research grants for this research, including four grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, an American Tax Policy Institute grant, the Charles D. Gonthier research fellowship for privacy law research, and two publication grants from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His writings have been translated into over twenty languages (mainly through his work as an author and editor for UNESCO) and have been published in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia.
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- Visiting Professor, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, Japan ( August 2018 - March 2019 )
Charles D. Raab is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Studies at The University of Edinburgh. He is the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution's current inquiry into the Impact of Surveillance and Data Collection upon the Privacy of Citizens and their Relationship with the State. His main research interests are in public policy and governance, including British government, information policy (privacy protection and public access to information) and information technology in democratic politics, government and commerce. His research has been funded by the ESRC, the National Science Foundation (USA), the European Commission, the Nuffield Foundation, the Scottish Office and the Scottish Executive. Publications include (with C Bennett) The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (Ashgate, 2003; 2nd edition MIT Press, 2006); (with M Arnott, eds.), The Governance of Schooling: Comparative Studies (Routledge/Falmer, 2000); (with M Anderson et al.), Policing the European Union (Clarendon Press, 1996); (with A McPherson), Governing Education: A Sociology of Policy Since 1945(Edinburgh U.P., 1988) and many contributions to academic journals and edited volumes. He is a member of the editorial boards of tenjournals in the fields of information policy and public policy.
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- Film and Media / Queen 's University / Canada
- Professor, Film and Media, Queen 's University, Canada
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- Professor, Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada
Colin Bennett received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is now Professor. He has enjoyed Visiting Professorships at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Center for the Study of Law and Society at University of California, Berkeley, the School of Law, University of New South Wales and at the the Law, Science, Technology and Society Centre at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published six books, including The Governance of Privacy (MIT Press, 2006) and The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance (MIT Press, 2008), and policy reports on privacy protection for Canadian and international agencies. He is co-investigator of a large Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant entitled "The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting" which has culminated in the report: Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada. He is also currently researching the capture and use of personal data by political parties in Western democracies.
As a co-investigator of the Big Data Surveillance project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Colin Bennett is co-leading (with Kirstie Ball) research Stream Two: Marketing. This stream will examine how massive data accumulation, analytical techniques and applications associated with big data are reconstructing practices of consumer marketing and political campaigning.
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- Principal Investigator
- Principal Investigator of the Big Data Surveillance Project / Former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Queen 's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies
- Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Research Chair
Co-investigators: Arthur Cockfield, Laureen Snider, Kevin Haggerty, Colin Bennett, Andrew Clement and Kirstie Ball. Each of the Integrated Research Sub-Projects was led by specified co-investigators, who were paired with collaborators, partners, stakeholders, postdoctoral fellows and students in research teams to establish and carry out research goals.
The team was comprised of 33 scholars from 9 countries, 9 disciplines and 20 different universities, representing a commonality of purpose and diversity of background, discipline and nationality. As well as a shared commitment to this project, members brought high-level complementary expertise, and a desire to work collaboratively on what were simultaneously some of the most intellectually stimulating and politically urgent questions of our day.
David Lyon is the Principal Investigator of the Big Data Surveillance Project(link is external) (2015-2021). He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Socioiogy and Law at Queen's University and is the former director of the Surveillance Studies Centre. Educated at the University of Bradford in the UK, Lyon has been studying surveillance since the mid-1980s. Credited with spearheading the field of "Surveillance Studies", he has produced a steady stream of books and articles that began with The Electronic Eye (1994) and continued with Surveillance Society (2001), Surveillance after September 11 (2003), Surveillance Studies (2007), Identifying Citizens (2009), Liquid Surveillance (with Zygmunt Bauman, 2013) and Surveillance after Snowden (2015). His most recent publication is The Culture of Surveillance (Polity, 2018) and he is currently working on Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford). He has also co-edited a number of other books, mostly the products of team projects on surveillance, with research funding totalling almost $8 million. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Surveillance & Society and The Information Society. Most recently awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by the Surveillance Studies Network(link is external) (2018) and the SSHRC Impact: Insight Award (2015), Lyon has also received numerous awards for his work, from Canada, Switzerland, the USA and the UK.
As Principal Investigator of the Big Data Surveillance project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, David Lyon is co-leading (with Stéphane Leman-Langlois and David Murakami Wood) research Stream One: Security(link is external). This stream examines the scope and impact of big data-dependent ‘national security' surveillance of communications in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations. They are working on an edited publication called Security Intelligence and Surveillance in the Big Data Age: The Canadian Case (UBC Press, forthcoming).
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- Director
- Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre
- Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Former Canada Research Chair ( Tier II ) in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen 's University, Canada
- Professor of Critical Surveillance & Security Studies, University of Ottawa / Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre
Educated at Oxford and Newcastle, UK, David Murakami Wood is the Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and former Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies (2009-19). He is an interdisciplinary specialist in surveillance, security and technology in cities from a global perspective, working mainly in Canada, Japan, the UK and Brazil. He is a leading organizer in the field of Surveillance Studies as co-founder and now co-editor-in-chief of the international, open access, peer-reviewed journal, Surveillance & Society(link is external), co-founder of the Surveillance Studies Network(link is external), co-editor of Surveillance Studies: A Reader(link is external) (Oxford University Press, 2018), Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence(link is external) (UBC Press, 2021), and the forthcoming International Handbook of Surveillance Studies (Edward Elgar).
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- Professor, School of Computing, Queen 's University, Canada
David Skillicorn is a Professor in the School of Computing, where he heads the Smart Information Management Laboratory. His research interests are in knowledge discovery in adversarial settings, particularly counterterrorism and law enforcement; he has also worked extensively in parallel and distributed computing. He has authored more than a hundred papers, and several books including the recent "Knowledge Discovery for Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement" (Taylor and Francis). He is the coordinator for Research in Information Security in Kingston (RISK) and is also an adjunct Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. His Ph.D. is from the University of Manitoba, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Sydney.
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- Director
- Assistant Professor, Queen 's University at Kingston / Deputy - Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre
- Deputy Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen 's University, Canada
The Surveillance Studies Centre is delighted to announce that from July 1, Alana Saulnier (re)joins the SSC, as an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department. She will work alongside Dr. David Murakami Wood.
Alana Saulnier completed her PhD in sociology from Queen's University in 2016, and both David Lyon and David Murakami Wood are pleased to welcome her back to Queen's as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology.
Saulnier comes to Queen's from Lakehead University, where she coordinated the Criminology Program as Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, and before that, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Saulnier's Queen's appointment follows a comprehensive international search process last year. For her doctoral work at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Saulnier focused on the lived reality of surveillance, particularly how people negotiate, resist and defy surveillance practices. Her work has most recently focused on police use of body-worn cameras. She is also active in the Surveillance Studies Network and is an Associate Editor with the journal Surveillance & Society.
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- Director Centre for Research on Security Practices ( CRSP ), Associate Professor, Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada ( PhD Completed 2019 )
2019- Ciara Bracken-Roche is a second-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology. Ciara received her BSc. from the University of Toronto and her MA from the University of Warwick, UK. Her Masters thesis was entitled ‘The Biopolitics of Security: Implications for the Border and for Identity' with a specific focus on the European Union's bordering systems, and databases. Ciara's ongoing interest is in the relationships between the state, society and the individual with a strong theoretical background in international relations and critical security studies. Her dissertation research analyzes the contribution of unmanned aerial systems to the rapid expansion of security, policing and commercial surveillance. Ciara sits on a number of departmental committees as well as being a member of the graduate student union's social team.
Post SSC- Dr. Ciara Bracken-Roche(link is external), Assistant Professor, Criminology, Department of Law, Maynooth University, Ireland; and Visiting Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada (2020).
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Post - Graduation Program of Communication
- Associate Professor, Post - Graduation Program, Communication and Culture, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Fernanda Bruno is an Associate Professor at the Post-Graduation Program of Communication and Culture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the Director of the MediaLab.UFRJ and a Senior Researcher at the National Scientific Council (CNPq), Brazil. Bruno is also a Founding member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies - LAVITS, and she is the author of books, essays and articles on sociotechnical networks, subjectivity, cognition, visibility apparatuses and surveillance culture.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Joan Sharpe is the SSC Administrator. She takes care of the administrative aspects of the Centre including facilities management, personnel, and financial administration.
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- Editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada
Kevin D. Haggerty is a Killam Research Laureate and editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology. He is also Professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Alberta. In addition to his assorted journal articles and book chapters he has authored, co-authored or co-edited Policing the Risk Society (Oxford University Press) Making Crime Count (University of Toronto Press) and The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility (University of Toronto Press). His recent work has been in the area of surveillance, governance, policing and risk. He and his co-author (Aaron Doyle) have recently published the book 57 Ways to Screw Up in Graduate School, which conveys a series of professional lessons for the next generation of graduate students.
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- Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews
- Professor, School of Management, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Kirstie Ball is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on surveillance, security and privacy, particularly as these issues affect organizations. Her current empirical work focuses on the impact of national security on the private sector, particularly on front line workers; the public understanding of security, surveillance and privacy; surveillance and democracy; and privacy and the quantified self. Her theoretical interest concerns subjectivity and surveillance. Kirstie has been collaborating with Queen's University since 2001. She was featured as a research collaborator in ‘The Globalization of Personal Data' and as Co-Investigator in ‘The New Transparency'. Kirstie has held grants from many of the major European social science funders, including the European Union Framework Programme, EPSRC, ESRC and The Leverhulme Trust. Her published work almost exclusively appears in journals such as New Technology, Work and Employment, Labour History, Tourism Management, Work, Employment and Society and Organization. She has recently published the monograph ‘The Private Security State? Surveillance, Consumer Data and the War on Terror' with Copenhagen Business School Press. She has also edited ‘The Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies', with Kevin Haggerty and David Lyon, and ‘The Surveillance-Industrial Complex' with Laureen Snider. Kirstie was a founding editor of Surveillance and Society and a founding director of Surveillance Studies Network.
As a co-investigator of the Big Data Surveillance project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Kirstie Ball is co-leading (with Colin Bennett) research Stream Two: Marketing. This stream will examine how massive data accumulation, analytical techniques and applications associated with big data are reconstructing practices of consumer marketing and political campaigning.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the Department of Arts
- Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Arts and Cultural Studies / University of Copenhagen / Denmark
Kristin Veel is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research is concerned with critical cultural studies of data and surveillance. Her work has focused on the impact of surveillance and datafication technologies on the contemporary cultural imagination, with a particular interest in film, art, literature as well as architecture. She has co-hosted the international network Negotiating (In)visibilities (2011-2014) and is currently principal investigator of the critical big data project Uncertain Archives at the University of Copenhagen (2015-2019), which has transitioned into a vibrant research collective that brings together scholars from across the world working on related projects. She has published the monograph Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009) and is co-editor of over ten collected volumes and special journal issues, most recently Architecture and Control (Leiden: Brill, 2018) with Annie Ring and Henriette Steiner. Among her recent journal publications are: Kristin Veel, ‘Make Data Sing: The Automation of Storytelling.' Big Data and Society, 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718756686(link is external) and Kristin Veel & Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, 'Geolocating the stranger: the mapping of uncertainty as a configuration of matching and warranting techniques in dating apps', Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 10:3 (2018), 43-52, DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2017.1422924
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- Department of Sociology
- Department of Sociology / Queen 's University / Canada
- Professor Emerita
- Professor of Sociology
Laureen Snider is a Professor of Sociology who specializes in the study of Corporate Crime, Surveillance and Regulation, Feminism and Sociologies of Punishment. Her most recent research, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada, examines financial corporate crime, specifically the discontinuities and asymmetries that produce the under-use of surveillance and surveillance technologies in the governance of stock market fraud. The study documents and interrogates the "visibility covers" and "regions of shadow" negotiated by the powerful bankers, lawyers, accountants and stock brokers who dominate global financial markets.
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- Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Studies, Queen 's University, Canada
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- Assistant Professor of Theory
Marco Antônio Sousa Alves is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Philosophy of Law at The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He got his PhD in Philosophy at...
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, USA
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- Visiting Professor, Universidade Estadual De Campinas, Brazil ( January - December 2018 )
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor ( Adjunct ), Queen 's University, Associated Faculty - Surveillance Studies Centre, Canada, Co - Editor Big Data and Society
Dr. Singh is an Assistant Professor (adjunct) in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University, where he teaches the department's largest course, Introduction to Sociology, to over 800...
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Scott Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan, Research Fellow of the Surveillance Studies...
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- Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen 's University, Canada
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- Professor of Criminology at Laval University
- Professor, School of Social Work, Laval University, Canada
Stéphane Leman-Langlois is professor of criminology at Laval University, Québec. He holds the Canada Research Chair on Surveillance and the Social Construction of Risk. He is director of the...
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- Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada
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- Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University