Congratulations to all those doctoral students who participated in and completed the sixth CRISP Doctoral Training School [DTS] last week (16 - 20 June). The students came from as far afield as Australia, Canada and the USA and engaged in a week-long training school of expert lectures, workshops and skill sessions relating to digital technologies, surveillance and privacy. The 2025 edition of...
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Posted May 29th 2025
A new research project at the University of Stirling is exploring how new technologies including artificial intelligence are reshaping the world of work, with a focus on how employers use technology to track the efforts of their workforce.
The project, ‘Electronic performance monitoring and the future of fair work’, is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and launched this month. ...
Posted May 22nd 2025
We now have a few last-minute places available at the CRISP Doctoral School, which occurs on 16th-20th June 2025 at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
We are very keen to have those places filled so PhD students can take part in the exciting programme of training and activities we have planned for the week.
If you would like to join, please fill in our short online ...
Posted Feb 7th 2025
About the CRISP Doctoral School
The School takes place at the University of Stirling from the 16th – 20th June 2025. It features five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of Surveillance Studies. It will also feature a range of knowledge-exchange and research-training activities, as well as providing social and networking...
Posted Jan 29th 2025
For the EGPA Annual Conference held at the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, from 26 - 29 August 2025, the Permanent Study Group on e-Government requests: (1) abstracts for papers relating to the themed session on The Governance of AI; and (2) abstracts for the general sessions drawing on current research which is relevant to the interests of this Permanent Study Group....
Posted Jan 20th 2025
CRISP is very excited to announce that from 26 – January – 23 February we are jointly hosting The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth in collaboration with the University of Stirling Art Collection, with the support of The Orwell Society.
About ‘The Library’
The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth is a work by artist Hans K Clausen. It is a visual art installation...
Posted Jan 17th 2025
CRISP invites you to save the date of its Sixth Doctoral Training School this June.
About the CRISP Doctoral School
The School takes place at the University of Stirling from the 16th – 20th June 2025. The School features five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of Surveillance Studies. It will also feature a range of...
Posted Dec 8th 2024
Dr Tom Montgomery is Lecturer in Work & Organisations in Stirling Management School. His research focuses on areas of labour market policy, the future of work, social movements, solidarity and civil society organisations. He is interested in how technology has been (re)shaping the contemporary workplace encompassing issues of algorithmic management, the rise of the gig economy and...
Posted Dec 1st 2024
Mariana Canto Sobral is a PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Stirling, UK, where she is part of the interdisciplinary cluster on Democracy, Human Rights and Communication/Advocacy in the Digital Age and is supervised by Dr. Damian Etone, Professor William Webster, Professor Rowan Cruft, and Dr Edit Freyo.
Her research focuses...
Posted Nov 27th 2024
Dr Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA is Lecturer in Digital Work at the University of Stirling. Vassilis investigates historico-sociological underpinnings of AI and internet technologies, and how expertise and expectations are negotiated in these domains. Some recent research projects include unified cross-disciplinary approaches to critical hype studies and the development of digital metaphors in...