Associate Provost Students

The Associate Provost Students is responsible for research postgraduate learning and teaching matters.

Responsibilities

• Advice on policy or regulatory development on all postgraduate matters.
• Overseeing postgraduate taught advising and considering requests from taught postgraduates for late module changes and variations from programme requirements.
• Approval of module results (for taught Masters students).
• Signposting students and staff to matters regarding academic and non-academic misconduct.
• Management of viva examination standards, process exceptions and approval of outcomes (including PGR examination reports).
• Resolution of serious postgraduate student matters related to changes of circumstance, such as change of registration, deferrals beyond the reporting deadline, extensions, leave of absence, discounted time, and termination of studies.

Tristan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Director of Teaching in the Graduate School, and has previously served as Director of Postgraduate Research Studies in Computer Science.

He has a background in computer science, economics and law, with a correspondingly wide set of research interests. His recent work is focused on digital rights and data protection, and how to combine understanding from computer science and the law to better regulate behaviour.

He is married with two children. When not managing postgraduate student issues, he can be found running on the beach (within St Andrews) or enjoying a rock concert (outwith St Andrews).