Built around the Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies at the University of Ottawa, the CSS/Lab is a transdisciplinary research group that brings surveillance studies into conversation with many other disciplines and fields. It aims to push surveillance studies in new directions, both in building critical social theories of surveillance and security, and through active empirical work in multiple locations and contexts.
CSS/Lab
The CSS/Lab examines, questions and critiques the ubiquity of surveillance at all scales from body to planet (and beyond).
Projects
Team
David Murakami Wood
Director / Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies / Full Professor, Department of Criminology
Azadeh Akbari
CCS/Lab Visiting Scholar, 2024-2026 / European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow
Dr. Jennie Day
Postdoctoral Fellow, CSS/Lab
Ashley Poon
PhD candidate (Criminology)
David Eliot
Trudeau Foundation Fellow / PhD candidate (Criminology)
Zimo Meng
CSS/Lab Research Assistant / PhD candidate (Criminology)
Claire Wang
PhD candidate (Criminology)
Contact
For more information on research, publications, or how to get involved, please get in touch with Dr. Murakami Wood.