Visiting Academics

Professor David Lyon

February –March 2012
David Lyon is the Director, Surveillance Studies Centre and holds a Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University, Canada.

Professor Lyons is the Principal Investigator of The New Transparency Project. His key work is on the globalization of ID systems where he explores ID Cards as a form of surveillance. During his visit Professor Lyons was working with the Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group and was a Keynote speaker at the Groups international conference Surveillance and/in Everyday Life: Monitoring Pasts, Presents and Futures’ 2012. Professor Lyon also worked with postgraduate students in a workshop titled Liquid Surveillance and the New Visibility.

Dr Rachael Dobson

July-August 2011
Dr Dobson is a lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She works in the field of welfare practitioners, practices and social policy. Her research includes a focus on care, support and therapeutics, where she explores the place of discipline, regulation and control at the 'front-line'. Dr Dobson’s research extends to practitioners in a range of welfare fields, including housing, homelessness, asylum seeker support and prison domains. Her substantive interests are conceptualised in theoretical frames of power, social regulation and control. Dr Dobson undertook research on policy and practitioner approaches in the housing and homelessness sector in Sydney.

Dr Shona Hunter

January 2011
Dr Hunter is a RCUK Academic Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Dr Hunter’s research focuses on the nexus between racism, sexism, inequality and policy. Dr Hunter is the convenor of the WUN White Spaces? Network and was at the University of Sydney working with Dr Catriona Elder on their project on Critical Whiteness Studies and the (post)colonialism in Australia. Their work explores the circuits of whiteness through child migration.