Projects per year
Personal profile
Research overview
Truman is a PhD Candidate in International Relations and a Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance. His project examines the legitimacy of the State and the Law and seeks to recontextualize the concepts of consent and resistance, and recognition and personhood in the current era of Digital Governance.
Truman's project is supervised by Dr. Natasha Saunders from the School of International Relations and by Dr. Ognjen Arandjelovic from the School of Computer Science.
His main areas of interest and research include Democracy, Constitutional Theory, Social Contract Theory, Justice and Injustice, Digital-Algorithmic Governance, Internet Politics, Ethics in AI and Big Data, and Human-Computer Interactions. Truman holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Liège (Belgium) and an MA in European Studies in Society, Science, and Technology from the University of Maastricht (Netherlands). He is fluent in German, English, and French; and is a recipient of the AD Links Foundation Scholarship at St Andrews.
Teaching activity
Graduate Teaching Assistant
IR1005: Concepts in Global Politics
IR1006: Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics
Keywords
- BJ Ethics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data
- D204 Modern History
- science and technology
- JA Political science (General)
- JC Political theory
- Political Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Idealism
- Anarchism
- Post-colonialism
- Post-structuralism
- science and technology
- JF Political institutions (General)
- HM Sociology
- K Law (General)
- Theory
Projects
- 1 Finished
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The Role of the University in the Ethical Digital Nation
Ardati, A. A. (CoPI), Ross, K. (CoPI), Voss, A. (CoPI), MacKenzie, M. L. (Researcher), Miguel, I. J. (Researcher), Miguel, A. R. (Researcher), Balasubramaniam, D. (Researcher), Sarkar, S. (Researcher), Jacques, J. T. (Researcher), Galan-Diaz, C. (Researcher), Zhu, X. (Researcher), Crean, A. P. (Researcher) & Venters, T. (Researcher)
Scotland’s Future Series - University of St Andrews
1/08/24 → 31/01/25
Project: Standard
Activities
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The Role of Universities in Shaping Scotland as an Ethical Digital Nation
Ardati, A. A. (Member of organising committee), Ross, K. (Member of organising committee), Venters, T. (Member of organising committee), Voss, A. (Member of organising committee), Thomas, S. (Participant) & Quek, F. (Participant)
25 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a workshop, seminar, course
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12th International Political Theory Graduate Conference
Venters, T. (Member of organising committee)
29 Aug 2024 → 30 Aug 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
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BISA Annual Conference
Venters, T. (Participant)
5 Jun 2024 → 7 Jun 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
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Centre for Global Law and Governance (Organisational unit)
Venters, T. (Participant)
2024 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of research network
Prizes
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AD Links Foundation Scholarship
Venters, T. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Celebrating Our First Workshop: The Role of Universities in the Ethical Digital Nation
Ardati, A. A., Ross, K., Voss, A., MacKenzie, M. L., Akgun, O., Pagliari, C. & Venters, T.
25/10/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other