SSN Early Career Researcher Award

The Surveillance Studies Network will award up to 4 prizes of £100 (GBP) each for papers that demonstrate exceptional promise in Surveillance Studies.

Adjudication

will be carried out by the Editorial Board of S&S, or a sub-committee appointed for this purpose by the Editorial Board;
the judges will meet annually in person or online and their decisions will be subject to approval at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the SSN;
the judges will award up to four prizes of £100 annually (the numbers and amount of the prizes will be subject to review at the SSN AGM);
the judges’ decision will be final;
the judges will not enter into any personal correspondance with authors.

Rules

To be eligible for the SSN Early Career Researcher Award, all authors must:

be paid-up members of the SSN;
be within 5 years after completion of a PhD on submission of the paper;
specify entry for the prize on submission of the paper;
be published in Surveillance & Society (S&S);
be an ‘Article’ (i.e. a fully peer-reviewed piece conforming to the guidelines on the S&S website).

Past Winners

Volume 21 - 2023 - 3 Winners

Dall’Agnola, Jasmin. 2023. Fieldwork Under Surveillance: A Research Note. Surveillance & Society 21(2): 229-234.

Walker-Munro, Brendan. 2023. Hyper-Collection: A Possible New Paradigm in Modern Surveillance. Surveillance & Society 21(2): 120-138.

Narayan, Shivangi. 2023. CCTVs and the Criminal City. Surveillance & Society 21(4): 363-374.

Volume 19 - 2021 – 3 Winners

Amsellem, Audrey
The Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC. Surveillance & Society 19(2): 168-186.

Archer, Matthew
Imagining Impact in Global Supply Chains: Data-Driven Sustainability and the Production of Surveillable Space. Surveillance & Society 19(3): 282-298.

Hinchliffe, Jade
Speculative Fiction, Sociology, and Surveillance Studies: Towards a Methodology of the Surveillance Imaginary. Surveillance & Society 19(4): 414-424.

Volume 18 - 2020 – 3 Winners

Amsellem, Audrey
The Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC. Surveillance & Society 19(2): 168-186.

Archer, Matthew
Imagining Impact in Global Supply Chains: Data-Driven Sustainability and the Production of Surveillable Space. Surveillance & Society 19(3): 282-298.

Hinchliffe, Jade
Speculative Fiction, Sociology, and Surveillance Studies: Towards a Methodology of the Surveillance Imaginary. Surveillance & Society 19(4): 414-424.