David Lyon’s work in surveillance studies has been recognized in various ways, such as the appointment as a Queen’s Research Chair in 2005, a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council (awarded 2007) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technology section in 2007. Last year he was named a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada. His work on surveillance is best represented by five sole-authored and five edited or co-edited books, two special issues of journals and many articles and chapters. His work has been well-received in many countries, and translated into over fifteen languages. He has contributed to policy debates in Canada and elsewhere and has participated in conferences, festivals, TV and radio interviews, and documentaries in relation to surveillance issues. He co-organized (with Elia Zureik) a first surveillance research workshop in 1993 and and is currently the Principal Investigator of The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting, a SSHRC MRCI project. He also effectively directed the multi-disciplinary international collaborative research of the INE Globalization of Personal Data Project, along with his colleagues Elia Zureik and Yolande Chan. He co-edits the online journal Surveillance & Society and is a founding member of the Surveillance Studies Network, a rapidly growing international group of surveillance studies scholars. Through these collaborative projects he has developed effective working relationships with policy, advocacy and activist bodies such as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.
