CRISP is proud to announce that applications can be submitted for its fourth biannual Doctoral Training School. The School takes place at the University of St Andrews from Monday 18– Friday 22 June 2018. The School will feature 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-...
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Posted Sep 29th 2017
CRISP is pleased to announce that the first book in the new Routledge Studies in Surveillance series is soon to be published. Titled 'Big data, surveillance and crisis management' and edited by Kees Boersma and Chiara Fonio the edoted collection will be published at the start of 2018.
Jorge thinking deeply about his doctoral research
Posted Sep 13th 2017
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Jorge Campos who is CRISP's latest PhD candidate. He will be based at St Andrews School of Management. Jorge joins us from the University of Leeds where he graduated with a Masters in Consumer Analytics and Marketing Strategy. He holds his Bachelor’s degree from the Polytechnic in his hometown of Porto.
Jorge's Master’s thesis explored the trust...
Posted May 15th 2017
Most of us will have heard something about Smart cities, but perhaps are unsure what the term really means? Using examples from ‘cutting edge’ research which we are conducting here at the University of Stirling, where we are uniquely looking at Smart cities from the ‘lens’ of the citizen, we will try to help to fill some of those gaps.
Smart cities often feature a city-wide vision to...
Posted Apr 21st 2017
CRISP is delighted to announce a new book series ‘Routledge Studies in Surveillance’. The series is edited by its directors, Kirstie Ball, William Webster and Charles Raab and produced in conjunction with Routledge. Studies of surveillance take place in many academic disciplines and it is time for a coherent series which represents the sheer diversity of surveillance scholarship.
Now is...
Posted Apr 7th 2017
Human flourishing is aided and hindered by surveillance systems. Religious ethics, directed towards an authentic way of life, have, therefore, a significant interest in how Big Data and other surveillance strategies shape men and women.
On the other hand, religious ethics may reflect the concerns of analogue societies rather than 21st century digital, networked communities.
This...
Posted Apr 5th 2017
News just in!
Professor David Lyon will be visiting the University of St Andrews in May this year. As Principle Investigator on our 'Big Data Surveillance' SSHRC partnership grant he will be interacting with PhD students and staff who are researching surveillance issues in the University. He will also be delivering a seminar entitled 'Big Data Surveillance: Social Sorting on Steroids'....
Posted Apr 3rd 2017
From 2017, CRISP Director, Professor William Webster, has been named as the Co-convener of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) Permanent Study Group [PSG 1] on eGovernment. The study group is the oldest at EGPA and has a rich tradition of critical eGovernment studies and publications.
Further information about the Permanent Study Group can be found here.
The 2017...
Posted Apr 3rd 2017
CRISP is delighted to welcome Dr Jeff Hughes to St Andrews School of Management. Jeff is with us for one year as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on the SSHRC-funded Big Data Surveillance project. He’ll be researching the surveillance logics present within various big data analytical projects currently being implemented in industry. Jeff joins us from Trinity College Dublin where he was awarded a...
Posted Mar 15th 2017
It has been said that Britain has more surveillance cameras than any other country in the world. This proliferation of CCTV cameras led the government to establish a Surveillance Camera Commissioner responsible for overseeing their governance – the only country in the world to do so. In another first, the Commissioner has now released a National Strategy for England and Wales to set out how...