Faith communities use surveillance technologies to protect their buildings and worshippers. Religious leaders sometimes use their equivalent of customer data management software to track attendance numbers or to better understand the profile of their community. Individual religious believers engage in surveillance of one another through social networking sites.
Surveillance technologies...
International surveillance expert to talk smart cities and big data
A world-leading expert in data protection and privacy governance from the United Kingdom will deliver the first of a series of public lectures at Victoria University of Wellington on Tuesday 16 August.
Professor William Webster of Scotland’s University of Stirling is an internationally recognised scholar for his...
Sara Degli Esposti (@survgaze), CRISPs first PhD student, was awarded her PhD by the Open University this week. Sara’s thesis, which was funded jointly by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and an Open University Charter Studentship was entitled ‘Big Data Protection’. She was supervised by Kirstie Ball, Liz Daniel and Maureen Meadows.
Using survey data from 200...
The Surveillance & Religion Network will hold a AHRC funded workshop to explore religion as an object of surveillance on 17th-19th of October 2016 in Birmingham, UK. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate dialogue amongst academic researchers, faith practitioners, and other stakeholders with a view to better understanding the issues arising now, and likely to be so in the immediate...
Last week saw the third biannual CRISP doctoral training school, this time hosted by Edinburgh University. We were delighted to welcome 21 doctoral students from all over the world. The continents of South and North America as well as the four corners of Europe were represented in the cohort. Students listened to expert lectures addressing questions concerning surveillance and the internet,...
Press Release June 2016
Professor William Webster, CRISP Director, has been named as the 2016 New Zealand-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor to New Zealand.
Professor William Webster of the University of Stirling will be the NZ-UK Link Foundation’s first Visiting Professor to New Zealand. He is a recognised expert on the governance and regulation of privacy and data protection,...
Press Release: 13 June 2016
‘SmartGov’ Research Project: Smart Governance of Sustainable Cities
Delivering Sustainable Cities Through Smart Technologies
The University of Stirling has been awarded a prestigious Economic and Social Research Council grant (708,000 EUR), to undertake research on ‘Smart Cities’, a phenomenon that is fast becoming increasingly influential...
Tristan Henderson, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of St Andrewsis recruiting for a research fellow...
A Doctoral Studentship is available at the School of Management, University of St Andrews, April 2017 start
CRISP is the UK partner of the SSHRC funded Big Data Surveillance project, led by Queens University in Canada. We currently have funding available for a PhD studentship to complete research that will contribute to the project’s findings. The studentships are funded by SSHRC and by...
Since May 2016 CRISP is being joined by colleagues at the University of St Andrews. CRISP founder Kirstie Ball has joined the Management School at St Andrews as Professor in Management. As well as moving two CRISP research projects, collaborations are emerging with colleagues in the Schools of Management, Computer Science, Divinity and Philosophy. Some of the unique strengths which stem from...
