THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES CENTRE

The primary funding of the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) is from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). We are currently working on a five-year Big Data Surveillance (BDS) project funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant. The Big Data Surveillance project examines the relationship between big data and surveillance in three linked streams: security, marketing, and governance... Surveillance is intensifying and spreading throughout the world and the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) is committed to high quality research to follow such developments. Founded at Queen's University at Kingston, and based there for 20 years until 2022, the SSC is now a Canada-wide virtual centre, affiliated to the international Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)(link is external). The SSC also hosts Surveillance & Society(link is external), the online journal of the SSN... The Surveillance Studies Centre is a multi-disciplinary and international research centre affiliated with..

Also known as: surveillance studies