David Lyon ( Sociology ) has been honoured with The Canadian Sociological Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award. Dr. Lyon, director of the Surveillance Studies Centre , is the first Queen’s professor to earn the society’s top award. “There are two ways this recognition is particularly pleasing,” says Dr. Lyon. “One is that it’s good that members... Read more about @title...

Edited by Kirstie Ball, Kevin Haggerty, David Lyon Published March 29th 2012 by Routledge

Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data, and localized in the... Read more about @title...

The New Transparency MCRI and the Open University Business School has a PhD studentship available for October 2012 on the topic of ‘the Surveillance Industrial Complex’. The studentship will be based at The Open University in Milton Keynes. Applications may address any angle of this wide ranging and interesting topic. To be eligible for the studentship you will need to... Read more about @title...

The Surveillance Studies network is now accepting nominations for its second annual book prize, recognizing the world’s best English language scholarly book published on the topic of surveillance in the past year.

Nominated books must be an original (or newly translated) monograph (not an edited collection), and published in English with a 2011 publication date. Nominations are accepted from... Read more about @title...

Royal Geographical Society-Insitute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, Edinburgh UK, 3-5th July 2012. Sponsored by the Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society

"Surveillant Geographies" Convened by David Murakami Wood (Queen's University, Ontario) and Steve Graham (Newcastle University) In this era of risk and security, surveillance is intensifying, expanding, rescaling and reterratorializing. New organisational practices, new technologies and... Read more about @title...

co-edited by Aaron Doyle (Carleton), Randy Lippert (Windsor) and David Lyon (Queen's).

Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the development of camera surveillance. It scrutinises the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also including less-debated but important contexts... Read more about @title...

The Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University has a vacancy for a Postdoc / senior researcher (2 yrs, full time). Closing Date for applications: 15 January 2012

The Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University has a vacancy for a Postdoc/senior researcher (2 yrs, full time) (vacancy nr INM-SR-0804) Closing Date for applications: 15... Read more about @title...

One PhD stipend, funded through grants received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), and beginning in September 2012, is available in the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

One PhD stipend, funded through grants received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), and beginning in September 2012, is available... Read more about @title...

The New Transparency research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2012 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2012 based in the Department of Sociology... Read more about @title...

ISA Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4 2012. As usual, there will be a session on surveillance within the Research Committee 23 on the Sociology of Science and Technology. Abstract deadline is 15 December 2011.

The International Sociological Association Forum wil be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4 2012. As usual, there will be a session on... Read more about @title...