Watching the watchers: strengthening public oversight of intelligence driven surveillance

Academic papers and seminars

Jane Duncan, talk given at 'Living Well in a Digital World' seminar, hosted by the Digital Society and Economy Interdisciplinary Research Theme, supported by the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.14 June 2023. 

Sarah Chiumbu, paper entitled ‘Factors influencing public oversight of digital surveillance for intelligence purposes: The case of Mauritius’, presented at a seminar organised by the Sociology Seminar Series, University of Glasgow, 24 April 2024. 

Sarah Chiumbu, paper entitled ‘Smart and safe cities in South Africa through a Powercube lens’, presented at an Urban Studies Seminar organised by the Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, 29 April. 

Sarah Chiumbu, masterclass on ‘Decolonising Research Methods’ for PhD students from the School of Social and Political Sciences’, University of Glasgow, 19 June 2024. 

Sarah Chiumbu, chair and discussant on a panel ‘Production Cultures, Policies and Practices’ during the conference Researching Media Production in the Global South, organised by the Media Industries and Cultural Production Research Group and the Global Communication Research Group at the University of Leeds in partnership with the IAMCR Media Production Analysis Working Group, and Glasgow University Media Group, 30 May 2024. 

Sarah Chiumbu, co-authored a paper ‘Between Digital Sovereignty and the (Global) Regulatory Turn? Platform Power, New Media and Normative Dilemmas in Africa’ with Hayes Mabweazara, Admire Mare and Allen Munoriyarwa. This paper was presented at the conference Regulating Digital Media in the Global South: What Are the Challenges? Conference organized by University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), 27 June 2024.

Allen Munoriyarwa, ‘State authoritarianism in surveillance oversight’, paper presented at the China - Africa Dialogue Series hosted by the Institute of Public Policy Research in Zimbabwe, 27 June 2024.

Academic articles

Academic articles will be made available as they are published.