Dr Tegan Cohen wins prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award at QUT
Author ADM+S Centre
Date 6 September 2024
Dr Tegan Cohen, postdoctoral research fellow from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (ODTA) at QUT.
The awards are provided to the top five per cent of HDR doctoral students annually the year after they graduate, with nominations from examiners reviewed by faculty committees and ultimately decided by the Research Degrees Committee.
Dr Tegan Cohen, a Wiradjuri woman, was awarded for her thesis “The datafied polity: Voter privacy in the age of data-driven political campaigning” which spans the regulation of digital platforms and artificial intelligence, privacy law and theory, and the laws of democracy and electoral politics. It was completed with the Faculty of Business and Law.
Since completing her thesis in 2023, Tegan has been a member of the ADM+S researching the governance and regulation of AI.
Her focus is on legal responses to automation in the private rental sector. Her research also explores the ‘democratisation’ of AI governance, particularly the development of legal rights and mechanisms for effective public participation and contestability.
