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Posted Feb 13th 2024

The core purpose of the Lab is the just transition to socially just, trustworthy, responsible, open, inclusive and sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) through impactful mission-oriented interdisciplinary research. For the transition to be just, we must understand, use, and engage critically with AI in all aspects of human endeavour for a fairer, greener, more prosperous, and outward-...

Posted Feb 13th 2024

The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) Study Group on e-Government

The 2024 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration will be held in Athens, Greece, 3-6 September 2024. The Conference is being organised by the EGPA/IIAS Secretariat in close cooperation with key partners. For this...

Posted Feb 9th 2024

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Adegboyega Ojo, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, adegboyega.ojo@carleton.ca

Sehl Mellouli, Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Business Administration, Laval University, Quebec,...

Posted Feb 9th 2024

Guest Editors:

Erna Ruijer - Assistant Professor, Utrecht University School of Governance

Veiko Lember - Professor, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of...

Posted Feb 9th 2024

CRISP Directors Professor Pete Fussey and Professor William Webster have been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner.

The office of the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner was created following the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Act 2020.  The Commissioner is independent of Scottish Government and is appointed by His Majesty the King on the nomination of...

Designing Responsible NLP Website
Posted Feb 8th 2024

The new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training on Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing has launched its first call for applications for fully funded PhD studentships.

CRISP Director, Dr Lachlan Urquhart, is an investigator and part of the management team for this new £9.75m Centre hosted at the University of Edinburgh.

The CDT will have the first cohort of students...

Posted Dec 13th 2023

Following the CRISP panel at CPDP earlier this year, public philosopher Judith Zoë approached recent CRISP PhD graduate Anuj Puri to interview him for episode 4 of her podcast, The Digital Period.  The Podcast is a series of philosophical conversations with experts and individuals about period tracking apps. It is part of a broader public philosophy project with the...

Posted Dec 11th 2023

Trans-European Dialogues (TED) are series of scholarly conferences on timely topics of public administration, jointly organised by the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) and the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee). TED2024 is high level conference bringing together senior public administration experts – academics and...

Posted Nov 15th 2023

Richard Kjellgren recently successfully defended his PhD, titled “Dark Spaces of Precarity”: Networks and Complexity in the Off-Street Sex Market, which was completed at the University of Stirling, and supervised by Dr Niall Hamilton-Smith and Dr Dave Griffiths. His PhD explored the role of technology in facilitating exploitation in the UK’s internet-mediated off-street sex market, and...

Posted Nov 13th 2023

The AI Safety Summit’s Bletchley Declaration(2) is a timely contribution to current – and future – debates about how and why the several forms of artificial intelligence (AI) should be regulated. Signed by 29 countries (including the collective entity of the European Union), its heart is in the right place in terms of the goal of ensuring that AI innovations are...

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