Katie Ion

Name: Katie Ion
Title
Organisation: Sociology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
Address: Edinburgh UK
Telephone
E-Mail: k.m.ion@sms.ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Qualitative Research Methods, Protest, Protest policing, Surveillance, ethnography, Social movements, Political Sociology, drug policy, intoxication, social change
URL: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/sociology/katie_ion

PhD Title

Counter/surveillance & Protest: Watching and being watched at public demonstrations in Britain

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz

MSc(R) Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Supervisors

Dr. Hugo Gorringe

Dr. Michael Rosie

Research Interests

Social movements and social change
Surveillance studies
Activist countersurveillance
Drug policy, culture, and reform movements
Drug user unions and self-determination

Current Research

Counter/surveillance & Protest: Watching and being watched at public demonstrations in Britain

This project will investigate the performance of police surveillance and activist countersurveillance around protest in the UK. Taking the activist perspective rather than that of law enforcement, it will provide a bottom-up account of the activist experience of police surveillance, trace the evolution of activist countersurveillance, and critique the predominant literature on protest policing in the UK.