Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
2007-08
Professor Andrew Clement
Andrew Clement is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program and is a co-founder of the Identity, Privacy and Security Initiative. He has had longstanding research and teaching interests in the social implications of information/communication technology and human-centred systems development. His recent research has focused on public information policy, internet use in everyday life, digital identity constructions, public participation in information/communication infrastructure development, and community networking. Clement is the principal investigator of the Performing Identities project and a co-investigator in The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting project, both funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Professor Clement participated in the IAS Annual Research Programme 2007/08 New Sciences of Protection: Designing safe Living. 
During his IAS visit, he gave a talk entitled "Borderline Security Theatre: Performing asymmetric risk with no-fly lists and biometric identification", in the New Sciences of Protection Workshop #4 - Presentation, Documentation and Mediation.
He also organized a panel on "Surveillance for Safe Public Spaces?" at the final conference, with surveillance externs, Charles Raab, Clive Norris, Lucas Introna and David Murikami Wood.
Professor Clement says; ' A highlight for me was the way the conference attendees enjoyed the mock biometric RFID enabled ID cards I prepared'.
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