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Posted Sep 30th 2023

Stuart Kerr is a PhD student at Coventry University, under the supervision of Assistant Professor Evronia Azer and Professor Sally Dibb. His research project is on Technologically-enabled monitoring, privacy and datafication of UK homeworkers.  

Stuart has a long-standing interest in optimal performance management that has grown...

Posted Sep 12th 2023

The 2023 European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) Permanent Study Group 1: eGovernance Best Paper Award has been awared to Isabelle Fest from Utrecht University for her paper titled 'The doings behind data: An ethnography of police data'.  The award is sponsored by IOS Press and Information Polity, and celebrates the written work of early career scholars.

Congratulations Isabelle...

Was Rahman
Posted Aug 8th 2023

Was Rahman is a PhD student at Coventry University, under the supervision of Professors Sally Dibb and Maureen Meadows. His PhD investigates AI fairness in business decision-making.  

Was has a long-standing professional and academic interest in how we enable, assure and govern ethical use of technologies, especially those that evolve more quickly than laws and regulations controlling...

Posted Aug 8th 2023

CSI-COP, funded under the EU Horizon2020 ‘science with and for society (SwafS)’ programme, is a citizen science project coordinated by Coventry University.

The international project involves engaging the general public through a free informal education course, ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’ (MOOC), to investigating GDPR compliance in...

Posted Aug 8th 2023

Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance

By Ariane Ollier-Malaterre

CRISP edited Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series

Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This...

Posted May 31st 2023

A new researcher has joined CRISP St Andrews, Dr Aisling Crean. Aisling is a Digital Education Developer at the Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development (CEED) at the University of St Andrews. She works across the University on the development of adaptive (or 'personalised') and immersive learning at St Andrews. She is interested in a range of ethical and political issues bound up...

Posted May 30th 2023

On 6 - 11 January 2024 the Arab Center for Research and Policy studies (ARCPS) is hosting their Fifth Annual Winter School. The School is open to PhD students and Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities whose work addresses issues of surveillance, censorship, manipulation and control in social media. The School’s concept note can be read in...

Posted May 17th 2023

Interim findings of an independent report on changes to the office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner (B&SCC) functions arising from the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Society is witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in the capability and reach of surveillance technologies. These new and advancing technologies hold clear...
Posted May 2nd 2023

Coventry University is inviting applications from suitably-qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship within the Centre for Business in Society. Applications from UK/International/EU students are welcome. The PhD student will study the impact of technology-enabled monitoring for home workers in the UK. The project will be located within the Data, Organisations and Society research...

Posted Mar 27th 2023

CRISP would like to welcome, Jędrzej Kupczyński, a visiting scholar from the University of Warsaw in Poland, who will be visiting CRISP in the latter part of March 2023.  During his visit Jędrzej based in the School of Management at the University of Stirling.

Jędrzej is a prosecutor in the District Public Prosecutor’s Office for Wola District, Warsaw, Poland. He is a doctoral...

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