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Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of surveillance and technology, privacy, policing, and gendered studies. My PhD dissertation research explores the adoption and use of employee monitoring applications (EMAs) in remote/hybrid working environments. I am investigating the impacts of these technologies on employee privacy and well-being and whether the regulation of this technology can be strengthened to improve employee protections in the workplace. My previous MA thesis research examined the gendered experiences of police fathers both prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways in which they navigated their roles as fathers and police officers.

Select Publications

• Thompson, D. E., & Molnar, A. (2023). Workplace Surveillance in Canada: A survey on the adoption and use of employee monitoring applications. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. 60(4), 801-819.
• Thompson, D.E., & Molnar, A. (2023). Slouching Toward Regulation: Assessing Bill 88 as a solution for workplace surveillance harms. Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. 21(1), 23-46.
• Langan, D., Sanders, C.B., & Thompson, D.E. (2023). Examining the experiences of women police during COVID-19: A liminal space for cultural change. Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment, Edward Edgar Publishing, ed. Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg.
• Thompson, D.E., Langan, D., & Sanders, C.B. (2022). Policemen, COVID-19, and police culture: Navigating the pandemic with colleagues, the public, and family. Policing & Society, 33(1): 1-14.