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Patrick Derby
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology

Martin French
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology
Martin French
Martin French's research concerns health, health data and health data flows. His work with the GPD project has been central to fostering the development of his research in the areas of privacy and surveillance, public safety and national security, and the governance of health surveillance. He has had the opportunity to participate in the research design of the international survey component, attend and observe French language focus group's in Montreal, and attend relevant conferences in Ottawa and Montreal. He also was a coordinator, with David Lyon, of the workshop Theorizing Surveillance held May 2005. Visit Martin's Health Surveillance Project website at www.martinfrench.net.

  • Martin French publications:

    • "In the shadow of Canada's camps," Social and Legal Studies, 16: 49-68, 2007.

Simon Kiss
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Political Studies

Jason Pridmore
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology
Jason Pridmore
Jason Pridmore is interested in the intersection of new forms of technology and its relationship to personal identity. His PhD dissertation focuses on loyalty programs in Canada as a form of consumer surveillance. This research specifically focuses on how the integration of consumer data into databases affects consumer behaviour and how the practices of developing these monitoring techniques is altered in relation to consumers. This work connects the marketing practices of corporations as a form of 'commercial sociology' with the responses of consumers to these programs. As a form of surveillance, loyalty programs are seen as both shaped by consumers and also serving to shape the consumer's consumption patterns. Jason is the contributing author on surveillance of consumers and consumption for the report on the surveillance society commissioned by the British Information Commissioner. Read more about his work here.

  • Jason Pridmore publications:

    • Cockfield, Arthur J and Jason Pridmore. "A Synthetic Theory of Law and Technology". Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2007.

Andrew Stevens
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology

Cagatay Topal
PhD completed November 2006
Queen's Department of Sociology

Topal studies Turkish migrant workers and discourses used to legitimize surveillance practices. Read more about his work here.

  • Cagatay Topal publications:

    • Topal, Çagatay. June 2005. "Global Citizens and Local Powers: Surveillance in Turkey". Social Text, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 85-94(10). Duke University Press.

Daniel Trottier
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology
Daniel Trottier
Daniel's research is concerned with the domestication of surveillance through new media technology. In particular, he is looking at the co-existence of lateral (or peer-to-peer) surveillance alongside conventional forms of surveillance on social networking sites. Daniel is presently reviewing relevant literature in order to construct a theoretical framework for this topic. Daniel also organizes the Surveillance Project's SP Seminar Series.

Jianhua Yao
PhD candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology

Jianhua YaoJianhua's interests are concentrated on ID card surveillance, and ID card surveillance on mobile phones in China in particular. His research mainly focuses on the relationship between ID card surveillance and the Hukou management system, and its implications on the tension between state and society.

Chen Luo
MA candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology

Midori Ogasawara
MA candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology

Midori OgasawaraMidori Ogasawara worked for Japan's national newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, from 1994-2004. As a reporter, she covered surveillance issues including national identification card systems, CCTV in public spaces, war compensation between Japan and Asian countries, especially sex slavery on behalf of the Japanese army, and other human rights issues. She was awarded a Fulbright and a Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists at Stanford University from 2004-2005. She is also the author of four books including a children's picture storybook, Princess Sunflower, which is based on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. It has been published in three languages. She has been a M.A. student in Sociology at Queen's since 2005 and is writing her thesis on Japan's registration and identification systems.

Andrea Rozdeba
MA candidate
Queen's Department of Sociology

Andrea RozdebaAndrea's research is concerned with Canada's "no-fly list." In particular, her research examines the emergence of the Canadian no-fly list in the context of the US "Secure Flight" program. It also examines the suggestions that the no-fly list is a form of governance through exclusion that entails an arbitrary process, breaches civil and privacy rights, causes undue harm and is cloaked in a web of secrecy.