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Posted Jul 3rd 2024

Introduction

Rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications present new and previously unforeseen opportunities to address societal issues (Stahl, 2021) but, at the same time, create challenges about the nature of public services and policy, as well as relations between service providers and...

Posted Jun 2nd 2024

Congratulations to Professor Charles Raab who has been awarded the Surveillance Studies Network Outstanding Achievement Award for 2024!

Charles Raab is Professor Emeritus in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, having been made Professor of Government 1999. His contributions to surveillance studies have...

Posted Apr 22nd 2024

Researchers from the University of Stirling, in collaboration with researchers from Universities of Bristol, Newcastle, Northumbria, Hertfordshire, King’s College London (KCL), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), and The Open University (OU) will investigate the current landscape of digital care technologies for social connection, care, and...

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...

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