Jamie Duncan

Jamie Duncan is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies and a researcher at the Centre for Access to Information and Justice at the University of Winnipeg. Jamie studies information policy, technology governance, and strategic communications with focus on topics related to security, migration, and policing. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, he draws from the fields of political science, sociology, law, and communications. His work has appeared in outlets such as The British Journal of Criminology and The Globe and Mail. Jamie’s doctoral research focuses on information sharing for border security and immigration governance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This work is supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship in Honour of Nelson Mandela.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed:

• Duncan, Jamie. 2023. “Data Protection beyond Data Rights: Governing Data Production through Collective Intermediaries.” Internet Policy Review 12(3). https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/data-protection-beyond-data-....
• Duncan, J., Luscombe, A., & Walby, K. (2022). Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada. The Information Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2022.2134241
• Duncan, J. & Barreto, D. (2022). Policing Canadian smart cities: Technology, race, & private influence in Canadian law enforcement. In Luscombe, A., Walby, K. & Silva, D. (Eds.), Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Luscombe, A., Duncan, J., & Walby, K. (2022). Jumpstarting the Justice Disciplines: A Computational-Qualitative Approach to Collecting and Analyzing Text and Image Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2022.2027477
• Duncan, J. & Walby, K. (2021). Police union political communications in Canada. British Journal of Criminology. Advance online publication:  https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab043

Commentary:

• Duncan, J. & Wong, W. (2022), “Data rights will not save democracy,” The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-data-rights-will-not-save-democracy/
• Wong, W. & Duncan, J. (2022). “Facebook’s metaverse won’t be bound by physical borders – neither are human rights,” The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-facebooks-metaverse-wont-be-bound-by-physical-borders-neither-are/
• Duncan, J. & Luscombe A. (2021). “Opinion: What Clearview AI Did Was Illegal, But Don't Play Down the RCMP's Role In It,” Huffington Post Canada.  https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/clearview-ai-rcmp-role_ca_6022e414c5b6d78d444a78ae