Veronica Kitchen was awarded a 2010 Ontario Early Researcher Award for the project Integrated counter-terrorism institutions in comparative perspective.
The award is one of 13 awarded to the University of Waterloo and the only one awarded to a researcher in Arts. Dr. Kitchen is studying counter-terrorism units in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to help us to understand how officials from different parts of the domestic security bureaucracy work together, and what effects this co-operation has for society.
The research includes studies of best practices, ethical trade-offs, and will contribute to understanding the benefits and pitfalls of the disintegration of the boundaries between policing and security and domestic and international.
The five-year grant will also fund opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student research and research assistance, and will include an outreach project involving high school students in a domestic security simulation.