Alana Saulnier, Lakehead University

Research

policing body-worn cameras evaluation officer perceptions surveillance technology qualitative workload analysis procedural justice

Latest papers

The effects of body-worn camera footage and eyewitness race on jurors' perceptions of police use of force.
Behavioral sciences & the law · 2019 · first author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Evaluation of the Guelph Police Service's Body Worn Camera Pilot Project
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Police adoption of BWCs in Canada: Building qualitative understandings of officer perceptions and constructing a national policy template
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$62,866
An evaluation of the Durham Regional Police Service's body-worn cameras pilot project
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$25,000

All 3 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

The effects of body-worn camera footage and eyewitness race on jurors' perceptions of police use of force.

Saulnier A, Burke KC, Bottoms BL

Behavioral sciences & the law2019First author

DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2443 PMID: 31997421

Evaluation of the Guelph Police Service's Body Worn Camera Pilot Project

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Saulnier, Alana

Keywords: policing; body worn cameras; experiment; quantitative; qualitative content analysis; public perceptions; procedural justice; victim-sensitive policy; court outcomes

$25,000

Police adoption of BWCs in Canada: Building qualitative understandings of officer perceptions and constructing a national policy template

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Saulnier, Alana

Keywords: policing; body-worn cameras; evaluation; officer perceptions; qualitative; surveillance technology; workload analysis

$62,866

An evaluation of the Durham Regional Police Service's body-worn cameras pilot project

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Saulnier, Alana

Keywords: policing; body-worn cameras; evaluation; surveillance technology; officer perceptions; community perceptions; procedural justice; police legitimacy; officer workload analysis; quasi-experimental; longitudinal analysis; democratic policing

$25,000

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student: policing Dear Professor Saulnier, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "The effects of body-worn camera footage and eyewitness race on jurors' perceptions of police use of force." (2019), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Evaluation of the Guelph Police Service's Body Worn Camera Pilot Project" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]