Tracey Lauriault

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-Principal Investigators, Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Building a Data Collaborative for Tracking Aggregate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Greater Montreal, as part of the University of Concordia Volt-Age project
  • Co-Director, Carleton University REALISE Seed Grant, Veracity and Truth Discovery of Multimedia Data
  • 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

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

• First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Data and Technology Circle
• Open Government Partnership Committee, Government of Ontario
• Toronto Open Smart City Forum
• DAMA National Capital Region Chapter (Data Management and Governance Association)

Sample of supervised research topics

• Data brokers and mental health
• Crisis communication in the energy sector
• Robots in the delivery of humanitarian aid
• Digital twins as a public good infrastructure
• Indigenous data governance
• Smart homes and the internet of torment
• Open science
• Open banking
• Privacy and cybersecurity of smart grid metering
• Technoscience of AI
• AI and R & D clusters
• and governing smart cities, 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 and more.

Teaching

DATA5002 Data Science Ethics and Society

COMS5225 Critical Data Studies

COMS4407 Critical Data Studies in Communication

PAPM4000 Public Affairs and Policy Management Capstone

COMS3403 Culture, Technology and Society

COMS2200 Big Data and Society

Citizenship

• Algonquin of Pikwakanagan
• Canada
• Republic of Ireland
• European Union