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Alannah Travers is a PhD student at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) School of Law as part of a Collaborative Studentship by the Department for the Economy (DfE) and the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights.
Her research project, Algorithmic Warfare and Civilian Harm, seeks to address how the increasing use of AI-decision support systems, algorithmic targeting and autonomous weapons are reshaping the legal and moral status of the civilian in armed conflict, and how global power imbalances are driving regulation (or not).
The gap between the development and regulation of Big Tech and emerging military technologies, including autonomous weapons, poses one of the most urgent legal and ethical challenges of our time. She hopes to explore and give space to the impact of algorithmic warfare on the very way that the 'human' and 'civilian' are understood and valued within the legal and ethical frameworks of war.
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AWS in the Cross-Hairs: Data Centres as Targets
Moffett, L. & Travers, A., 13 Mar 2026, 5 p. Opinio Juris.Research output: Other contribution
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Women, law and climate resilience: closing the gap in Iraq's legal framework
Travers, A., Yas, S., Hawrami, A. H. & Jaber, Y. I., 18 Dec 2025, 20 p. ( LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series; no. 104).Research output: Working paper
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Kay Everett Memorial Prize (SOAS)
Travers, A. (Recipient), 12 May 2026
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)