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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...

Posted Apr 22nd 2024

Researchers from the University of Stirling, in collaboration with researchers from Universities of Bristol, Newcastle, Northumbria, Hertfordshire, King’s College London (KCL), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), and The Open University (OU) will investigate the current landscape of digital care technologies for social connection, care, and...

Posted Feb 13th 2024

The core purpose of the Lab is the just transition to socially just, trustworthy, responsible, open, inclusive and sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) through impactful mission-oriented interdisciplinary research. For the transition to be just, we must understand, use, and engage critically with AI in all aspects of human endeavour for a fairer, greener, more prosperous, and outward-...

Posted Feb 13th 2024

The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) Study Group on e-Government

The 2024 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration will be held in Athens, Greece, 3-6 September 2024. The Conference is being organised by the EGPA/IIAS Secretariat in close cooperation with key partners. For this...

Posted Feb 9th 2024

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Adegboyega Ojo, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, adegboyega.ojo@carleton.ca

Sehl Mellouli, Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Business Administration, Laval University, Quebec,...

Posted Feb 9th 2024

Guest Editors:

Erna Ruijer - Assistant Professor, Utrecht University School of Governance

Veiko Lember - Professor, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of...

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