Event Details

The Security Lancaster Research Institute is holding a series of breakfast events themed around the idea of ‘Surveillance Conversations’. The aim of these sessions is to stimulate conversations amongst academics who have interests and expertise in surveillance broadly defined.

Speaker: Professor Corinne May-Chahal and Sam Maesschalck

Talk Title: Police surveillance in social media

Date: 8th November 2022

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Join us In Person: InfoLab21 Room D55.

The idea of Surveillance Conversations is to explore the ways in which the ability to produce, capture and analyse digital data at scale has led to profound transformations in economic, social, political, cultural and ecological systems. These new forms of surveillance now shape the worlds of work, leisure, education, health/social care, politics and policing. Collectively these developments challenge traditional thinking about security, power, governance, trust, bias, social justice, human rights, and raise fundamental questions regarding individual wellbeing and social good.

We invite you to participate in the breakfast events in the coming term. Offering thoughts on any aspect of the new surveillance landscape they find most interesting. Professor Corinne May-Chahal and Sam Maesschalck will give a short (10 or 15 minutes) presentation followed by a 45-minute discussion.

These sessions will be Tuesday mornings between 9:00am and 10:30am (starting on the 8th November and then every 2 weeks to the end of term). These will be in-person events, with tea/coffee/pastries provided.