Faculty profile
Kevin Walby
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Latest papers
Carceral tropes in prison-themed escape rooms in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Incarceration : an international journal of imprisonment, detention and coercive confinement · 2026 · first author
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada.
New media & society · 2023 · first author
COVID-19 and views of imprisonment in a sample of prison tourists.
Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2022
Latest funding
- $79,536
Resistance to Data: Understanding Data Use, Data Management, and Data Infrastructure in the "Traditional" Humanities through Historical, Comparative, and Ethnographic Study
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $152,316
The (Electoral) Politics of the Police
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $55,500
Disaster Prisons Partnership
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Carceral tropes in prison-themed escape rooms in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Walby K, Mussell L, Piché J
The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada.
Walby K, Wilkinson B
COVID-19 and views of imprisonment in a sample of prison tourists.
Côté-Lussier C, Walby K, Piché J
Resistance to Data: Understanding Data Use, Data Management, and Data Infrastructure in the "Traditional" Humanities through Historical, Comparative, and Ethnographic Study
Principal investigators: O'Donnell, Daniel P.
Keywords: Research Data Management; Humanities Research Practices; Research Data Infrastructure; History of Science; Science and Technology Studies; Scholarly Communication; Digital Humanities; Information Science
The (Electoral) Politics of the Police
Principal investigators: Monaghan, Jeffrey
Disaster Prisons Partnership
Principal investigators: Piché, Justin
Keywords: Imprisonment; conditions of confinement; human rights; alternatives to imprisonment; diversion; decarceration; disasters; public health; environment; community safety; Canada
Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Policing in Canada
Principal investigators: Adedayo, Oluwasola Mary
Keywords: Algorithmic policing; Artificial intelligence; Digital forensics; Police; Law and justice; Criminal justice; Computer science; Freedom of information; Surveillance; Privacy
Access to Information and Government Transparency in the Digital Age
Principal investigators: Walby, Kevin T.
Keywords: transparency; government; accountability; freedom of information; law; access to information; digitization; social control; power; ethics; computerization; investigative journalism
Environmental Justice and Security: Climate Refugees and the Social Construction of Danger in Winnipeg
Principal investigators: Kohm, Steven
Keywords: Environmental Justice; Security; Policing; Flood Evacuation; Natural Disasters; Wildfire Evacuation; Climate Change; Climate Refugees; Environmental Emergencies; Disaster Response
Exploring Data Brokers, Surveillance, and Marginalization in the Digital Era
Principal investigators: Walby, Kevin T.
Keywords: data brokers; surveillance; marginalization; risk; internet; computers; power; data; data doubles; commodification; data governance; privacy; transparency; datafication; profiling; big data; digital trace data; computational social science; law
Addressing food waste and food insecurity through a circular food economy
Principal investigators: Ikiz, Ece
Keywords: circular economy; food waste; food insecurity; social network; knowledge sharing
Escape Rooms and Prison Tourism: A Study of Cultures of Penality and Carceral Retasking
Principal investigators: Mussell, Linda
Keywords: Carceral retasking; Culture; Tourism; Penality; Political Socialization; Deservingness; Discourse; Justice; Canada; United States
Examining Community Safety and Surveillance Groups in Canadian Cities
Principal investigators: Sibley, Marcus
Keywords: surveillance; public safety; community policing; online communications; security; neighbourhoods; the urban; suspicion; public police; intellgience
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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