This website features a range of reflections, from occasional commentary and media to published papers and event listings on themes related to my academic research. My dissertation focuses on security and policing legacies associated with major sporting events. I spend a lot of my time inquiring into the economic, legal and technological transformations of security, military, intelligence and policing institutions involved in securing major events through urban strategies of public safety. As a researcher for the New Transparency project, I am also curator of the Security Games Web Project, a digital exploration of the interface between mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – and practices of security and policing.

I have also written and presented on the value and limits of ‘privacy enhanced technologies’ as a solution to digitally mediated surveillance; investigations into the socio-technological dimensions of High Frequency Trading (HFT) in global finance and related regulatory responses; critical understandings of cosmopolitanism and cultural political economies; as well as on articulations between ‘the urban’ and practices of security.  In a broader academic sense, I explore these themes through a range of disciplines and literatures spanning International Political Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Surveillance Studies, Criminology, Urban Studies as well as contemporary social and political theories, philosophies of history, and philosophies of social science and research methods.

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