Nicola’s research in surveillance combines interests in how new/media, technology, culture, gender and embodiment intersect in social life. She is also particularly interested in the development of methodological approaches to surveillance aligned to feminist, poststructuralist and actor-network theories, including ethnographic, visual and textual methods. Broadly, her research in Surveillance Studies has combined interests in digital technologies and mobile communications media; risk, privacy and trust; and gender and gendering in surveillance. Her research projects in Surveillance Studies have included an ESRC funded project on multimedia mobile communications; an Intel-funded project on mobile data, privacy and trust (RIS:OME); and an international collaboration on the ‘Globalization of Personal Data' with the Surveillance Project at Queens University. Further research activity has taken the form of: Membership of the Surveillance Studies Network and the editorial board of Surveillance and Society; co-editing a special issue of Surveillance and Society on ‘Gender, Sexuality and Surveillance’; acting as Rapporteur for the Royal Society on the Cybertrust consultation; acting as expert commentator in the Surveillance Society report for the UK Information Commissioner; and participating in the Everyday Life of Surveillance UK seminar series.   

 

Research Networks and Activity:

• The RIS:OME Project – Risk, Privacy and Trust in Mobile Communications
• Homepage of The Surveillance Project – Queens University, Canada  
• The Globalization of Personal Data Project – Queens University, Canada
• Homepage of the Surveillance Studies Network
• Homepage of the Surveillance and Society Journal
• Royal Society Dialogue: Cybertrust and Information Security
• ‘A Report on the Surveillance Society’ for the Information Commissioner, by the Surveillance Studies Network.
• ESRC Seminar Series on The Everyday Life of Surveillance