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Posted Jan 20th 2025

CRISP is very excited to announce that from 26 – January – 23 February we are jointly hosting The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth in collaboration with the University of Stirling Art Collection, with the support of The Orwell Society. 

About ‘The Library’
The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth  is a work by artist Hans K Clausen. It is a visual art installation...

Picture credit: University of Stirling

Posted Jan 17th 2025

CRISP invites you to save the date of its Sixth Doctoral Training School this June.

About the CRISP Doctoral School

The School takes place at the University of Stirling from the 16th – 20th June 2025. The School features five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of Surveillance Studies. It will also feature a range of...

Posted Dec 8th 2024

Dr Tom Montgomery is Lecturer in Work & Organisations in Stirling Management School. His research focuses on areas of labour market policy, the future of work, social movements, solidarity and civil society organisations. He is interested in how technology has been (re)shaping the contemporary workplace encompassing issues of algorithmic management, the rise of the gig economy and...

Posted Dec 1st 2024

Mariana Canto Sobral is a PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Stirling, UK, where she is part of the interdisciplinary cluster on Democracy, Human Rights and Communication/Advocacy in the Digital Age and is supervised by Dr. Damian Etone, Professor William Webster, Professor Rowan Cruft, and Dr Edit Freyo.

Her research focuses...

Posted Nov 27th 2024

Dr Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA is Lecturer in Digital Work at the University of Stirling. Vassilis investigates historico-sociological underpinnings of AI and internet technologies, and how expertise and expectations are negotiated in these domains. Some recent research projects include unified cross-disciplinary approaches to critical hype studies and the development of digital metaphors in...

Posted Oct 15th 2024

CRISP St Andrews is pleased to welcome two new members: Dr Stephen McQuistin and Paul Cox

Stephen is a newly appointed Lecturer in Networks in the School of Computing at the University of St Andrews. He has an interest in privacy in both internet infrastructures and in electronic communication within organizations.   

Paul is studying his PhD with Stephen and CRISP member Dr...

Posted Oct 9th 2024

Part of the CRISP Edited Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series

Recent discussions on big data surveillance and artificial intelligence in governance have opened up an opportunity to think about the role of technology in the production of the knowledge states use to govern. The contributions in this volume examine the socio-technical assemblages that underpin the surveillance...

Posted Aug 12th 2024

Part of the Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series.

Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age provides an in-depth examination of the complexity and diversity of organised opposition to increasing state surveillance powers in the UK.

Taking the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act as a central case study and combining an analysis of publicly available...

Posted Jul 3rd 2024

Introduction

Rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications present new and previously unforeseen opportunities to address societal issues (Stahl, 2021) but, at the same time, create challenges about the nature of public services and policy, as well as relations between service providers and...

Posted Jun 2nd 2024

Congratulations to Professor Charles Raab who has been awarded the Surveillance Studies Network Outstanding Achievement Award for 2024!

Charles Raab is Professor Emeritus in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, having been made Professor of Government 1999. His contributions to surveillance studies have...

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