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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There are just a few places left on the 2023 CRISP Doctoral Training School, so we've extended the deadline until April 14th!
The School takes place at the University of Essex from Monday 19– Friday 23 June 2023. It will feature five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of Surveillance Studies. A range of knowledge-exchange and...
The Scottish Government Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies (ETIAG) has published its review on the police use of emerging technology. The group was led by Scittish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) and incorporates a significant component by CRISP researchers based at the University of Stirling.
The independent review of new policing technologies has suggested...
