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Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series 2025
SS25 AI4UG
Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance

New USF funded Seminar Series on AI for Urban Governance

The Seminar Series

​The seminar series SS25.AI4UG aims at promoting an urgently needed transdisciplinary academic debate with academics and urban governance practitioners on the development of a coproduced research agenda for new responsible and transparent AI capabilities for accessible decision support for urban governance. An agenda that responds to the needs of stakeholders, supported by hard evidence from urban sciences, and engaged with technologists and technology developers. This agenda will consolidate its validity via demonstrative training sessions for Early Career Researchers (ECRs, as defined by the UKRI) and open to other academics and to practitioners. It will be disseminated among wider audiences via webinars and policy briefs, with the support of leading urban governance agencies and science and cultural dissemination forums in the diplomatic and cooperation spaces.​​

Read the Inaugural USF Blog Generative AI in urban governance

Our target audiences

  • Urban academics, including

    • PhD students

    • Early Career Researchers (ECRs)​

  • Urban governance practitioners

  • The seminars and training sessions will be open to these communities in the three countries

  • The follow-up webinars and policy briefs will disseminate the findings globally to wider communities

  • Policy briefs will be translated into the most spoken languages of the world to break language barriers and reach out to urban governance communities that don’t necessarily read in English

​Participation of Early Career Researchers (ECR)

  • ECRs will be able to apply to a small SS25.AI4UG fund of £120 to co-fund their participation

  • Each training event [T1], [T2] and [T3] will have a competitive call to select up to 10 ECRs.

  • More information about how to apply and selection criteria can be found at the SS25.AI4UG ECR page.

NEXT EVENT [Web0]

The Team​

Institutional Partners

 

These major institutional stakeholders will provide a valuable support in mobilizing the local and national communities of urban stakeholders and in disseminating the findings of the seminar series.​

​How to engage and participate

Bookmark the SS25.AI4UG webpage and keep updated about the different events and outcomes of the seminar series.

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Contact us at nuno.pinto@manchester.ac.uk for obtaining further information about this seminar series.

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