David Lyon

David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Project, Queen’s Research Chair and Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. From 2008-2010 he holds a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised mainly in Bristol, England, he completed his Social Science and History education in Bradford, Yorkshire (BSc Soc Sci, PhD).

He has authored or edited 20 books and published many articles. They have been translated into 15 languages. The most recent books are Surveillance Studies: An Overview (2007) and Theorizing Surveillance (ed. 2006). Identifying Citizens: Surveillance, Sorting and the State and Playing the Identity Card (co-edited with Colin Bennett) will appear in 2008.

He is on the international editorial boards of a number of journals and is the North American editor of Surveillance and Society. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Auckland, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Leeds, Tokyo, the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

David is married to Sue, a studio potter. They have four adult children and two grandchildren. David also writes songs, paints in watercolour, and participates in the Kingston triathlon.

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