Digital Economy Ethics of AI Workshop🚨 24 June | 14:30 - 16:30 | Nancy Rothwell Building Join us for a practical and engaging workshop on the ethics of artificial intelligence 🧠 Register here: tinyurl.com/bddemfn4

We will facilitate the space to start conversations across fields, because those conversations will enable big ideas to be developed!

Digital Futures@digitaluom.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Digital Futures brings together over 2200 researchers from over 30 different disciplines across all three of the University’s faculties into multidisciplinary communities to tackle important research problems and build critical mass in new and emerging research areas. 🔗 linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

🎉 We are overjoyed to welcome @msbarrioluengo.bsky.social as a new theme lead for Digital Economy at the @manchester.ac.uk! Her research interests include the involvement of universities in economic development and university-society collaborations. 🔗 Discover more: linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

⏳ Just over a week to go – final spaces left! The programme is now live for the RSA 60th Anniversary Workshop: Inclusive Innovation for Regional Futures (30 Sept, Manchester). 👉 Register free: www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60... @regstud.bsky.social, @alliancembs.bsky.social

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research@mioir.bsky.social · last yr.

#RSA60 Anniversary Workshop: Inclusive Innovation for Regional Futures: Bridging Economic Development, Ecological Recovery and Social Equity Join us at @alliancembs.bsky.social, @officialuom.bsky.social on 30 Sept 2025. Register here 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60... @regstud.bsky.social

#RSA60 Anniversary Workshop: Inclusive Innovation for Regional Futures: Bridging Economic Development, Ecological Recovery and Social Equity Join us at @alliancembs.bsky.social, @officialuom.bsky.social on 30 Sept 2025. Register here 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60... @regstud.bsky.social

🌍 How can universities become catalysts for climate action? AMBS researchers are part of a major project exploring how knowledge institutions can help cities achieve net zero goals.

🤖 UK economic growth is powered by digital transformation. @manchester.ac.uk research by Dr @msbarrioluengo.bsky.social & Prof Silvia Massini shows tech adoption varies by region & sector, targeted skills and policies are key to unlocking the UK’s full tech potential. buff.ly/7oDqKzm

Unlocking tech potential in the UK

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📢 Call for Editors We invite applications for 2 Editors for @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social . Help shape the future of this leading #openaccess journal in regional studies. Full call at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsrs-ed... 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025

Great to see MIOIR research by Silvia Massini, Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo & Xiaoxiao Yu cited in the UK Government’s Technology Adoption Review, helping shape the Industrial Strategy and support adoption of AI, cloud computing & big data. 📄 Read the full report here: bit.ly/4lrcqya

New report 📄 by Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo & colleagues for the European Commission’s JRC on Micro-credentials in Higher Education. Are they boosting digital & green skills for Europe’s twin transition? Read here 🔗 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Micro-credentials in higher education

Micro-credentials have gained significant traction within the European Higher Education Area following the 2022 Council Recommendation. Micro-credentials offer flexible, targeted, and accessible learn...

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Made it to Bluesky! Will try to get back into habit of posting here on #scipolicy + related issues. In meantime here's a picture of myself & my colleagues representing @mioir.bsky.social at the (great) 10th Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy

📢 Last chance! Present your research at the Advances in Data Science and AI Conference 2025. Poster submissions close on 14 May. All topics in AI and data science are welcome! 🔗Submit here: buff.ly/p3pDRd3

Another chance to read our blog on Adoption of Advanced Digital Technologies in the UK 👇

Alliance Manchester Business School@alliancembs.bsky.social · 2y ago

A study by Prof Silvia Massini and Dr Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo highlights the reality of advanced digital technology adoption across UK businesses. The findings reveal impressive strides but critical gaps that could widen the digital divide. Read more: ow.ly/Km2350V8b01 @productivity.bsky.social

How are UK businesses navigating digital transformation? A new blog by @alliancembs.bsky.social's Silvia Massini & Mabel Sanchez-Barrioluengo examines the data on adoption of advanced digital technologies and finds a wide variation across regions and sectors: www.productivity.ac.uk/news/still-a...

Still a long way to improve digital technology adoption in the UK - The Productivity Institute

Advanced digital technologies show a wide variation in patterns of adoption and utilisation across regions and sectors in the UK.

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Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’

Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.

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Earlier this week, MIOIR’s Silvia Massini and Mabel Sanchez-Barrioluengo joined a roundtable led by Prof. Dame Angela McLean & Dr. Dave Smith on the Cross-Government Review of Technology Adoption. A vital step toward boosting UK #innovation, #growth & #productivity! 💡📈 @official-uom.bsky.social

Come join us! Fully-funded #PhDposition 📢 Explore how inclusive #InnovationDistricts, like Manchester's £1.7bn Sister district, can drive sustainability & social inclusion without gentrification. Work with Kieron Flanagan & Elvira Uyarra Apply by 5 March 2025 👉 bit.ly/3CaMiXc

Understanding the impact of inclusive ‘innovation District’ Initiatives at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Understanding the impact of inclusive ‘innovation District’ Initiatives at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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