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Research overview

Truman is a PhD Candidate in International Relations, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance (CGLG), Postgraduate Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA), and a Postgraduate Researcher at the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP). Drawing on the works of John Rawls, his project proposes a notion of Political Justice for Information Societies.

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, Global Justice, Digital/Algorithmic Governance, Surveillance Studies, Ethics in AI & Big Data, and Human-Computer Interactions. Truman obtained an MA in Political Science and Science, Technology & Society Studies (STS) 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

IR2005: Theoretical Approaches to International Relations

Keywords

  • BJ Ethics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
  • D204 Modern History
  • History of Science
  • History of Ideas
  • JA Political science (General)
  • JC Political theory
  • Political Philosophy
  • Global Justice
  • Political Liberalism
  • Idealism
  • Moral responsibility
  • Egalitarianism
  • science and technology
  • JF Political institutions (General)
  • Democratic theories
  • HM Sociology
  • Social Justice
  • Social Theory
  • Surveillance
  • K Law (General)
  • Jurisprudence

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