Biography
Kirstie joined the School of Management in 2016 having held positions at Aston, Warwick, Birmingham and The Open Universities.Ìý She is Professor in Management and co-director and founder of CRISP, theÌý. CRISP is a joint research centre between ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Edinburgh, Stirling and Essex Universities. She is also Research Fellow at the and Visiting Professor at the .Ìý
Over the last 20 years Kirstie’s research has been funded by ESRC, EPSRC, SSHRC (Canada), The Leverhulme Trust, The British Academy and the European Framework Programme. In 2015 she published 'The Private Security State? Surveillance, Consumer Data and the War on Terror', the first empirical study, from an organizational perspective, of private sector involvement in government surveillance regimes. She is also co-editor of a new Routledge book series entitled 'Studies in Surveillance' and edited ‘The Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies’, a key resource for those who teach about surveillance. She has consulted to the UK's Information Commissioner, authoring ‘A Report on the Surveillance Society’ in 2006, which prompted two parliamentary committee enquiries, and its follow up in 2010.
Kirstie co-founded and co-edited the journalÌýÌýand the charitable companyÌý, an educational charity which supports the journal.ÌýShe has also advised numerous NGOs, research funding bodies and news media organizations about surveillance, privacy and security.ÌýShe frequently appears in the broadcast and print media and at public events to speak about surveillance as a contemporary social phenomenon.
Teaching
- MN1001 Understanding the Business Environment
- MN4214 Management of Change
- MN5001 Contemporary Global Issues in Management
Research areas
Kirstie’s research focuses on surveillance in and around organizations and surveillance in society. Her theoretical interests surround subjectivity and the experience of surveillance, while her empirical work focuses on the organizational forms surrounding pervasive employee monitoring, the surveillance-industrial complex and big data consumer surveillance.
PhD supervision
- AlasdairÌýWorrell
Selected publications
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Open access
Dibb, S., Ball, K. & Degli Esposti, S., 18 Nov 2025, In: Internet Policy Review. 14, 4, p. 1-28 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ball, K., 6 May 2025, Elgar encyclopaedia of critical management studies. McCann, L., Bozkurt, O., Finn, R., Granter, E., Hunter, C., Kivinen, N., Kumar, A. & Weirman, B. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 454-458 5 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Open access
Wong, J., Racine, L., Henderson, T. & Ball, K., 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technolology and E Commerce Law. 14, 2, p. 251-277 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Cooke, T., Sabatino, A., Muller, B. & Ball, K., 20 Feb 2023, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Open access
Wong, J., Henderson, T. & Ball, K., 17 Jan 2022, In: Data & Policy. 4, 31 p., e3.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Ball, K., 16 Dec 2022, In: Surveillance and Society. 20, 4, p. 455-461 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Ball, K. & Graham, S., 16 Dec 2022, In: Surveillance and Society. 20, 4, p. 333-345 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Ball, K., 1 Oct 2021, European Commission. 105 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Open access
Degli Esposti, S., Ball, K. & Dibb, S., 6 Apr 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Public Administration Review. Early View, 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Ball, K. (Editor) & Webster, W. (Editor), 14 May 2020, In: Big Data & Society. 7, 1, 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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