About Me

Alex Luscombe is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, a Researcher at the Centre for Access to Information and Justice, and a Junior Fellow at Massey College. His research interests include policing and social control, data justice and information politics, social research methods, and computational social science. His research has been published in a number of academic journals, including Social Forces, British Journal of Criminology, Sociology, and International Political Sociology, and has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Sociological Association, and the Government of Ontario. He is the co-editor of two books, Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design (Routledge, 2019) and Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada (UBC Press, Forthcoming). Beyond his research, Alex is an avid rock climber, mountain biker, and cross-country skiier.