| Dear BOLD Cities affiliate, |
In this newsletter you can find updates on recent developments within our team, new publications by our affiliated researchers and reports from our most recent datawalks.
We are particularly excited about an important BOLD achievement: the LDE Executive Boards have agreed to keep funding BOLD Cities until 2030.
Do you have a recommendation for an interesting event or relevant publication coming up? Please feel free to share it with us.
Warm regards from the Centre for BOLD Cities
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| Following an incredibly positive assessment by an external committee of experts, the LDE Executive Boards have agreed to keep funding BOLD Cities until 2030. We thank our community of city makers, academics. students and support staff for their support and are looking forward to ongoing collaborations! |
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| Sarah Giest appointed as full professor |
| We are very proud to share that dr. Sarah Giest has been appointed as full professor of Public Policy with a focus on innovation and sustainability at Leiden University - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Dr. Sarah Giest is a a very valued colleague and teaches in our minor, where she is currently giving a module on smart city governance. Read more..
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| Liesbet van Zoonen honored as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor |
We are very happy to announce that our scientific director Liesbet van Zoonen has been honored as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor, during our conference in June. LDE-dean Wim van den Doel praised van Zoonen for her contributions to the LDE collaboration.
Read more about this special event here (in Dutch)
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| Promotion Anne van Eldik |
On October 19th the promotion ceremony of Anne van Eldik took place. Anne is one of the PhD-candidates affiliated with our centre. Her research focuses on urban media engagement by looking at how young people construct an urban identity from their creative media use. Read more about her research..
Congratulations, Anne! |
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| New run 'Smart and SHARED Cities' minor |
| In September, the BOLD Cities minor 'Smart and SHARED Cities' started its fourth run. In the coming months, a group of very enthusiastic students will explore the opportunities and challenges for (smart) cities in a total of five modules taught by a group of very interesting teachers. Read more.. |
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The Centre for BOLD Cities is happy to welcome two new teachers to the teaching staff of the Smart and SHARED Cities minor. Dr. Freek de Haan took over part of module 1, in which students get to know more about the concepts surrounding smart cities. Dr. Tomasz Jaskiewicz took over module 2, during which the students got to enjoy multiple fieldtrips and learn more about smart applications in cities.
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Team |
| At BOLD Cities, we aim to provide a platform for young and new talent, both when it comes to our researchers but also with respect to our centre management. In the past months, the BOLD Cities team has welcomed several new faces. Read more about them below. |
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| New LDE-trainee: Sarah |
Sarah van der Zeijden is the new trainee at the LDE Centre for BOLD Cities. During this academic year, she will be involved in the organization of the outreach activities from BOLD Cities and function as the secretary to the BOLD Cities board. Sarah replaced Esther Eumann, who worked as a trainee at BOLD last year. Read more about Sarah and Esther.
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| New researcher: Suyoung Kim |
Prof. dr. Suyoung Kim joined our centre in September as a visiting fellow. Kim is an associate professor at the Department of Social Welfare at Seoul National University. While at the Centre for BOLD Cities, she hopes to broaden her academic boundary to European societies and share her South Korean research cases on how digitalized work, administration and community change the time-space interactions of people and society.
Read more.
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| New intern: Manuela |
| Manuela Puddu is a master’s student in Social Innovation and Communication at the University of Cagliari, Italy. In September and October, Manuela assisted in the Smart and SHARED Cities minor, developing interactive teaching materials and sharing videos regarding smart city topics. Read more.. |
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| New student assistant: Leo |
| Leo is a master student Politics and Society at ESSB. For the coming months, he will be making sure everything runs smoothly in the BOLD Cities minor programme 'Smart and SHARED Cities'. Leo replaced Sanne van Herwijnen, who left the BOLD Cities team last August. Read more about Leo and Sanne here.
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| Data-driven working in municipalities |
In the past months, our PhD Candidate Margot Kersing explored how unemployed benefit recipients experience data-driven working of their municipality. The primary findings of this research have been published in a booklet.
Read more about the publication. |
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| New dashboard on education segregation |
| A research project from Marjolijn Das, one of our endowed professors, has made a new statistic dashboard possible about education segregation in the Netherlands. One of the conclusions based on the data in this dashboard is that the level of education segregation is the highest in cities. Read more.. |
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| In the Spotlight: Bregje van Eekelen |
| Our researchers are working on all sorts of question relating to digitalisation, data and datafication in the 'smart' city - with the citizen and government perspective in mind. In our 'In the Spotlight' - series, we introduce them and their research to you. This month, we introduce Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor Bregje van Eekelen. Read more.. |
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| Leiden-Delft-Erasmus publishes interviews from our 'Smart Cities' White Paper |
Last summer, we published our white paper, “Dit is de échte slimme stad”, in which 17 academics and practitioners start the conversation we as a society urgently need to have about the role of data and tech in the city.
Every month, one of the interviews from the white paper is published on the website of the LDE collaboration. This month, Jiska Engelbert (ESSB/BOLD Cities) and Henk Bouwmans (Dutch Association for Councilmembers) discuss the role of the city council when it comes to smart cities.
Read more..
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The Centre for BOLD Cities conveys the socially responsible use of data and digital technologies for, by and with citizens and civil servants in the urban environment. The SHARED mission is carried out through multidisciplinary research, education and valorisation.
If you have an interesting publication or upcoming event related to the themes of our centre, please get in touch with us via info@boldcities.nl.
Illustrations by Margriet Osinga. Photos by Tiffany Konings, Merlina Slotboom, Esther Eumann.
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