Research
Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.
Latest papers
Enter the Ring: Artistic Interventions in Facial Recognition and Domestic Surveillance
Surveillance & Society · 2026
Surveillance reform: revealing surveillance harms and engaging reform tactics
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2025 · first author
In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventions
Bristol University Press eBooks · 2024
Latest funding
- $250,000
Assessing and communicating opportunities and barriers to improving indoor air quality in Canadian residences
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $66,536
Deobfuscating State Security Surveillance Capabilities in Canada
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
18 publications.
Enter the Ring: Artistic Interventions in Facial Recognition and Domestic Surveillance
Craig Fahner, Evan Light, Quinn MacNeil
Surveillance reform: revealing surveillance harms and engaging reform tactics
Evan Light, Jonathan A. Obar
In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventions
Miriam Fahimi, Petter Falk, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Juliane Jarke, Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, Evan Light, Ellouise McGeachey, Itzelle Medina Perea, Nikolaus Poechhacker, Lindsay Poirier, Theo Röhle, Tamar Sharon, Marthe Stevens, Bernard van Gastel, Quinn White, Irina Zakharova
In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventions
Miriam Fahimi, Petter Falk, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Juliane Jarke, Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, Evan Light, Ellouise McGeachey, Itzelle Medina Perea, Nikolaus Poechhacker, Lindsay Poirier, Theo Röhle, Tamar Sharon, Marthe Stevens, Bernard van Gastel, Quinn White, Irina Zakharova
In/visibilities in Data Studies:
Miriam Fahimi, Petter Falk, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Juliane Jarke, Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, Evan Light, Ellouise McGeachey, Itzelle Medina Perea, Nikolaus Poechhacker, Lindsay Poirier, Theo Röhle, Tamar Sharon, Marthe Stevens, Bernard van Gastel, Quinn White, Irina Zakharova
Surveillance reform: revealing surveillance harms and engaging reform tactics
Evan Light, Jonathan A. Obar
Infrastructures of Dis/Connection: Of Drones, Migration, and Digital Care
Evan Light, Jutta Lauth Bacas, Daphne Dragona, Katrin M. Kämpf, Marta Peirano, Valentina Pelizzer, Christina Rogers, Florian Sprenger, Jaron Rowan, Abiol Lual Deng
The Snowden Archive-in-a-Box: A year of travelling experiments in outreach and education
Evan Light
The Secret School: An installation on Migration involving the public through text and media contributions in a closed network.
Ioannis Zannos, Loukas Basoukos, Evan Light
Sputtering to a start: the history and future of radio spectrum regulation in Uruguay
Evan Light
Assessing and communicating opportunities and barriers to improving indoor air quality in Canadian residences
Principal investigators: Kahan, Tara
Deobfuscating State Security Surveillance Capabilities in Canada
Principal investigators: Light, Evan
Keywords: surveillance; oversight; transparency; access to information; governance; Canada; race; COVID-19
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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