Tracey Lauriault
Associate Professor
Department: | School of Journalism and Communication |
Biography
Tracey P. Lauriault
Associate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data
Cross Appointed to the MA in Digital Humanities
Faculty of the Institute for Data Science
ORCID CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738
For a complete CV contact: Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca
Dr. Lauriault is a critical data studies scholar who works on open data, big data, open smart cities, open government, data sovereignty, data preservation and data governance. Her ongoing research includes disaggregated equity data, digital twins, intersectional approaches to data governance, data invisibilities and the history of the census. As a publicly engaged scholar, she mobilizes her research into data and technology policy in all sectors. As a data and technological citizen, she examines large and small complex systems with the hope of making them more just, inclusive, equitable and environmentally sustainable.
Ongoing Funded Research
- Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Grant, Archives 4.0: Artificial Intelligence for Trust in Records and Archives, PI Luciana Duranti, School of Information, University of British Columbia
- Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Grant, Global Media and Internet Concentration (GMIC) Project, PI Dwayne Winseck, Communication Carleton University
- Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Canadian Census Discovery Partnership: Improving research access to Canada’s national historical data, PI Leanne Trimble, University of Toronto Library
- Primary Investigator, CU COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Grants, Data Humanitarianism and Technological Citizenship during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Co-Applicant, Exploration Competition of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), Imagining Canada’s Digital Twins , PI Stephen Fai Architecture, Carleton University
- Co-Applicant, SSHRC Insight Grant, Strategies for Enhancing the Financial Sustainability of Canada’s Charities PI Susan Philipps, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University
- Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Mobility Control in the Digital Age: The Everyday Securing of Human, Financial and Data Mobilities, PI David Grondin, Communication, Université de Montréal
- Cluster Member, Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF), The X Lab for Cultural Heritage Informatics, PI Shawn Graham, Digital Humanities, Carleton University
- Team Member, Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF), Deciphering Digital Assets, PI Mohamed Al Guindy & Olga Baysal, Institute for Data Science, Carleton University
- Collaborator, Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF), AI-Powered Information, PI Omair Shafiq, School of It & Conrad Winn, Political Science, Carleton University
- Lead Researcher, Community Equity Data Analysis, Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership Community Grant
Scholarly Affiliations
- Associate Member, Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Ottawa University
- Professeure associée, Centre d’urbanization et culture et sociéte, Institute nationale de la recherche scientifique (NIRS), Montréal
- Research Associate, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University
- Research Associate, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Republic of Ireland
- Advisory Board, Institute for Data Science, Carleton University
- Organizing Committee, Data Power Conference
Public Affiliations
- Multi-Stakeholder Forum for Canadian Open Government Civil Society, Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada
- Open Government Partnership Committee, Government of Ontario
- Steering Committee, Research Data Canada
- Toronto Open Smart City Forum
Sample of supervised research topics
Indigenous data governance, open science, open banking, technoscience of AI, AI and R & D clusters, governing smart cities, smart homes and the internet of torment, privacy and cybersecurity of smart grid metering, internet regulation, folksonomies and hashtagging practices in social media, platform governance, local and traditional knowledge in atlases, data brokers and privacy, blockchain and finance, big data in South Africa, citizenship engagement in open government.
Teaching
COMS5225 Critical Data Studies
COMS4407 Critical Data Studies in Communication
COMS3403 Culture, Technology and Society
COMS2200 Big Data and Society
Citizenship
- Algonquin of Pikwakanagan
- Canada
- Republic of Ireland
- European Union