Patrick Watson, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research

perception police oversight police-involved shootings violence video evidence visual jurisprudence police use of force reasonable officer standard

Latest funding

Visions of Policing: How Visual Technologies Shape Police Oversight and Training
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$134,172
Charting the "Reasonable Officer": A Partnership with Ontario's Special Investigations Unit to Understand Oversight in Police Use-of-Force Cases
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$196,116
Gaming Subscription Predictive Algorithms: A Partnership with Netflix to Assess the Social Life of Algorithms
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$22,501

All 4 grants and awards

Visions of Policing: How Visual Technologies Shape Police Oversight and Training

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Open Research Area

Principal investigators: Watson, Patrick G.

Keywords: visual technologies; video; policing; police oversight; perception; phenomenology; ethnomethodology; ethnography

$134,172

Charting the "Reasonable Officer": A Partnership with Ontario's Special Investigations Unit to Understand Oversight in Police Use-of-Force Cases

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Watson, Patrick G.

Keywords: police use of force; reasonable officer standard; police oversight; law & society; criminology; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; legal studies

$196,116

Gaming Subscription Predictive Algorithms: A Partnership with Netflix to Assess the Social Life of Algorithms

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Watson, Patrick G.

Keywords: algorithms; human-computer interaction; deviance; predictive computing; grounded theory; social media analysis

$22,501

Understanding Video Evidence in Criminal Trials for Police-Involved Shootings

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Watson, Patrick G.

Keywords: police-involved shootings; violence; video evidence; visual jurisprudence; perception

$87,003

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: perception Dear Professor Watson, 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]. Your research on perception 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 "Visions of Policing: How Visual Technologies Shape Police Oversight and Training" (2022), 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]