News Archive: 2017

Tenure-track position in Intersectional Surveillance Studies

The Department of Sociology at Queen’s University invites applications for a Queen's National Scholar (QNS) position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor with a specialization in Intersectional Surveillance Studies with an emphasis on Big Data and Social Inequality. The successful candidate is expected to teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in surveillance studies and contemporary critical...

Congratulations to David Lyon

David Lyon has been awarded the 2017 Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision by the School of Graduate Studies at Queen's University (to be received at Fall Convocation, November 16, 2017). The application supported by his students pointed to his achievements as a researcher as well as a graduate student mentor.

Post-doctoral position at Queen's University

The Big Data Surveillance research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting fall 2017 based in the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University. This is a one-year term position.

The Fellow will develop innovative multi-media teaching and learning materials related to Big Data Surveillance, led by Professors David Lyon and David Murakami Wood (Queen’s University)....

Call for Papers: Security Intelligence and Surveillance in the Big Data Age

October 19-21, 2017

A Research Workshop of the Big Data Surveillance partnership project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Location: University of Ottawa

Introduction:

Security intelligence is in a state of flux.

New technological developments are challenging older ways of working, most notably the ubiquity of surveillance...

Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar 2017

Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar 2017 “Surveillance in the Big Data Era” 15 June – 21 June Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Surveillance Studies has become a key way of understanding the contemporary world, and the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University has been one of the driving forces behind the growth of this transdisciplinary field. For...