Theo Temple

I am currently a Research Assistant working as part of the ESRC funded project, Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health related data governance in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom (ADJUST). We are interested in issues of ‘health data justice’ especially as it concerns marginalised groups in the context of rapid developments in digitisation and AI.

Previous to this I was a postdoctoral researcher on the Leverhulme funded ‘City Governments Citizen Public Sector Debts and Debt Collection’ project, investigating the practices, politics and impacts of Council Tax arrears and enforcement in the context of UK austerity.

My research has developed through empirical explorations of urban planning, taxation, debt and digital infrastructure. I am interested in the variability and hybridity of legal spaces and state mediated financial geographies which emerge through these regimes, their biopolitical implications and political possibilities.