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Kirstie Ball is a Professor of Management at the School of Management, University of St Andrews. She is co-director and founder of CRISP (Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy), a joint research centre between St Andrews, Edinburgh, Stirling, and Essex Universities. She also holds external roles as a Research Fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University (Canada), and as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University (UK).
- Education: PhD in Computer-Based Monitoring in UK Service Organizations (Aston University, 1996)
- MSc in Engineering (University of Birmingham, 1993)
- LLB (Hons) (University of Birmingham, 1989)
Her research focuses on surveillance in organizations and society, emphasizing subjectivity under surveillance and organizational forms of pervasive employee monitoring, surveillance-industrial complexes, and big data consumer surveillance. Key projects include Big Data Surveillance (2016–2020) and Monetize Me? Privacy and the Quantified Self in the Digital Economy (2014–2017). Articles highlight her work on data protection frameworks, surveillance in the gig economy, and workplace privacy.
Scientific awards include her ESRC Management Research Fellowship (1997–1999). She has advised the UK Information Commissioner, NGOs, and media on surveillance issues and co-founded the journal Surveillance and Society and the Surveillance Studies Network, a charitable educational organization.
