CRISP is pleased to welcome Sandro Eich, a PhD student from the School of English at the University of St Andrews. Sandro's PhD is provisionally entitled 'Whistleblowing Narratives: Investigating the cultural context(s) and representation(s) of whistleblowing in 21st-century fiction and non-fiction'. He is supervised by Dr James Purdon in the School of English.
Sandro's research...
UK police use of live facial recognition unlawful and unethical, report finds. Available here.
Surveillance is one of the fundamental sociotechnical processes underpinning the administration, governance and management of the modern world. It shapes how the world is experienced and enacted. The much-hyped growth in computing power and data analytics in public and private life, successive scandals concerning privacy breaches, national security and human rights have vastly increased its...
Stirling CRISP Director, Professor William Webster, has been appointed by the Scottish Government to a Research Advisory Group to oversee research on public space CCTV in Scotland. The research, led by the University of Glasgow, is intended to collate a baseline of evidence in order to better understand the value of public space CCTV and to identify what can be learned from other...
There is widespread public support for police officers in Scotland to wear body cameras when attending incidents, but certain pitfalls must be avoided, new research highlights.
Police Scotland commissioned researchers from the University of Stirling to understand how body worn video (BWV) has been used effectively, elsewhere in the UK and internationally, in ways that best support...
Hearty congratulations go to CRISP St Andrews PhD student Janis Wong, who has been awarded her PhD. Janis's thesis was entitled "Co-creating Data Protection Solutions Through A Commons". In her thesis Janis explored the feasbility of creating a data protection commons for online learning. She found that a data protection-focused data commons - as a socio-technical framework - can support the...
CRISP researchers have produced a commissioned research report to support the provision of Body-Worn Video (BWV) Cameras in policing in Scotland. The research was commissioned by Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) and the Scottish Institute for Police Research (SIPR) in autumn 2021. The report captures existing knowledge about the experiences and implications of the police...
Special Issue of Information Polity, Volume 27, No.2.
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Contents include:
Introduction to the Special Issue
Johann Cas, Paul De Hert, Maria Grazia Porcedda and Charles D. Raab
The European PNR Directive as an instance of pre-emptive, risk-based algorithmic security and its implications for the regulatory framework - Elisa Orrù
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Special Issue Guest Editors:
Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Gianluca Misuraca, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Introduction
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations, 2015) are shaping the global agenda in multiple areas, including public opinion, policy, and research. The 17 SDGs, detailed in 169 targets, have an...
Call for Papers Deadline extended to 10 June 2022
For this special issue of the journal Information Polity we are interested in papers on the topic of open government data for citizen participation.
Special Issue Guest Editors are:
Shirley Kempeneer, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Johan Wolswinkel, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, The...
