The study of public health surveillance from a surveillance studies perspective

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Publications

  • French, Martin (2009), "Woven of War-Time Fabrics: The Globalization of Public Health Surveillance," Surveillance & Society 6(2): 101-115.
  • French, Martin (2007), "In the Shadow of Canada's Camps," Social & Legal Studies 16(1): 49-69.
  • Bennett, Colin and Martin French (2003), “The State of Privacy in the Canadian State: Fallout from 9-11”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 11(1): 2-11.

Recent Conference Papers (2008-Present)

  • French, Martin, “Overt-Covert Surveillance: At the Nexus of Security Studies and Surveillance Studies,” presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, Thursday, June 3, 2010.
  • French, Martin, “The Surprise of Surveillance Medicine,” presented at the CIHR Strategic Research and Training Initiative in Health Care, Technology, and Place Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop, St. Andrew’s Club & Conference Centre, Toronto, Canada, April 30, 2010.
  • French, Martin, “The Return of Overt Surveillance,” presented at A Global Surveillance Society, City University, London, UK, April 13-15, 2010.
  • French, Martin, “Gaming the State of Exception: V2010 ISU Interprets the Fair Information Principles,” presented at the Surveillance Games Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, Saturday, November 21, 2009.
  • French, Martin and Fiona Miller, “Mining Patient Information: Making an Asset of Afflicted Populations, presented at the 2009 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, Monday, August 10, 2009.
  • French, Martin, Fiona Miller and Carrie Sanders, “‘Sometimes You Can Win By Losing’: Social Capital and Innovation in a Health-Care Context,” presented at the 7th Triple Helix International Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
  • French, Martin, “The Evolution of Classifications: Health In-formation in Ontario, Canada,” presented at The 1st International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, September 6, 2008.
  • French, Martin, “Public Health Surveillance in Ontario: A Case-Study of the Transparent Body (Politic),” presented at InVisibilities: The Politics, Practice and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
  • French, Martin, “Viruses: Virtual and Actual,” presented at The British Sociological Association Annual Meeting, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, Saturday, March 29, 2008.

Recent Grants and Awards 

  • Recipient of a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-2012)
  • Recipient of a CIHR Strategic Research and Training Initiative Fellowship (Postdoctoral) (2010-2011 – Award Declined)
  • Recipient of a CIHR Strategic Research and Training Initiative Fellowship (Postdoctoral) (2009-2010)
  • Recipient of a Surveillance Studies Network Annual Paper Prize for Early Career Researchers (2009)
  • Recipient of a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) (2004-2007)

Professional Memberships

  • Since 2007 – Canadian Sociological Association
  • Since 2008 – International Sociological Association
  • Since 2008 – Surveillance Studies Network
  • Since 2009 – American Sociological Association
  • Since 2010 – Canadian Political Science Association
  • Since 2010 – Society for the Social Studies of Science