Dr Michael McCahill

Dr Michael McCahill

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Criminology, Sociology and Policing

Qualifications

  • BA (University of Hull)
  • MA (University of Hull)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)

Summary

I was born Glasgow, but raised in Hull. I completed my BA Sociology, MA Criminology, and PhD Sociology at the University of Hull. I have been teaching criminology and surveillance studies at the university for 23 years. My PhD and first research grant were both awarded by the ESRC. These ESRC-funded projects resulted in two prize-winning monographs. The Surveillance Web (2002), winner of the 2003 British Society of Criminology Book Prize, and Surveillance, Capital and Resistance (2014), winner of the 2015 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize.

Undergraduate

- Surveillance and Social Control

- Criminology in Late Modernity

- Becoming a Criminologist

Taught Postgraduate

- Dissertations

Recent outputs

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Book

Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject

McCahill, M., & Finn, R. L. (2014). Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203069974

Book Chapter

Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia

Lee, M., Johnson, M., & McCahill, M. (2018). Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia. In Race, criminal justice, and migration control: enforcing the boundaries of belonging (13-28). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0002

'Good' and 'bad' data subjects: media representations of the 'surveilled' in three UK newspapers

Finn, R., & McCahill, M. (2013). 'Good' and 'bad' data subjects: media representations of the 'surveilled' in three UK newspapers. In Technocrime, policing and surveillance (28 - 47). Routledge

Journal Article

Beyond the 'all seeing eye': Filipino migrant domestic workers' contestation of care and control in Hong Kong

Mesina, M. R., Johnson, M., Lee, M., McCahill, M., & Mesina, L. (2020). Beyond the ‘all seeing eye’: Filipino migrant domestic workers’ contestation of care and control in Hong Kong. Ethnos, 85(2), 276-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1545794

Theorizing surveillance in the UK crime control field

McCahill, M. (2015). Theorizing surveillance in the UK crime control field. Media and Communication, 3(2), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v3i2.251

Research interests

My research interests include the social impact of ‘new surveillance' technologies in the context of policing and criminal justice. I have published widely on this topic, including two prize-winning monographs. These are The Surveillance Web (2002), winner of the 2003 British Society of Criminology Book Prize, and Surveillance, Capital and Resistance (2014), winner of the 2015 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize. Other research interests include surveillance theory, media representations of surveillance, and the ‘racialization’ of surveillance. I welcome PhD applications in the following areas: surveillance and social control; surveillance, crime and media; ethnographic research on surveillance subjects or agents; and the ‘racialization’ of surveillance. Recently completed PhDs include Suki Desai, PhD in sociology, ‘The Social Impact of CCTV Surveillance Cameras in Three Mental Health Wards’; Jade Hinchliffe, PhD Sociology, ‘Social Sorting in Twenty-First Century Dystopian Fiction’; Kathryn Blance, PhD Media, Culture and Society, ‘Surveillance, State Violence and Resistance: A History of “Dangerous Incidents” between Police Officers and Black Individuals in the United States.’

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome PhD applications in the following areas: surveillance and social control; surveillance, crime and media; ethnographic research on surveillance subjects or agents; and the ‘racialization’ of surveillance. Recently completed PhDs include Suki Desai, PhD in sociology, ‘The Social Impact of CCTV Surveillance Cameras in Three Mental Health Wards’; Jade Hinchliffe, PhD Sociology, ‘Social Sorting in Twenty-First Century Dystopian Fiction’; Kathryn Blance, PhD Media, Culture and Society, ‘Surveillance, State Violence and Resistance: A History of “Dangerous Incidents” between Police Officers and Black Individuals in the United States.’

Awards and prizes

Surveillance, Capital and Resistance

2014 - 2015

McCahill, M. (2014), Surveillance, Capital and Resistance, winner of the 2015 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize.

The Surveillance Web

2002 - 2003

McCahill, M. (2002, The Surveillance Web (2002), Cullompton: Willan, winner of the 2003 British Society of Criminology Book Prize. McCahill, M. and Finn, R (2014), Surveillance, Capital and Resistance, London: Routledge, winner of the 2015 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize.

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