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ORCID:
0000-0002-4269-830X
ResearcherID: H-9662-2017
Igor
Calzada
Senior Researcher at Cardiff University & University of Oxford
WISERD & COMPAS
Wales, United Kingdom
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His research draws on urban, digital, and political transformations affecting citizenship from the critical/radical social innovation perspective. His most recent book Smart City Citizenship (Elsevier, 2021) focuses on the present and future techno-political post-COVID-19 challenges of citizenship in AI and data-driven global people-centred smart city-regions by paying particular attention to platform and data co-operatives. Broadly, his main research interest revolves around how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruptions are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance models for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in (smart) cities and regions in Wales, the UK, and Europe.
Research ExperienceSenior Scientist
European Commission
April 2019 - Present
He is co-leading the following four research/policy projects located in the global scope of digital transformations and AI disruption from the applied social sciences perspective.
Visiting Research Fellow 2016
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
January 2016 - Present
He will work on political innovation and smart urban transformation initiatives in order to develop a comparative metropolitan and regional devolution case study. Workshop on ‘Political Innovations and Smart Urban Transformations,’ July 2016.
Lecturer
University of Oxford
January 2016 - Present
The Future of Cities: Best Sustainable Practice Summer Course is designed to provide a selected group of talented and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students from leading Chinese universities.
Lecturer
University of Strathclyde
January 2015 - Present
Urban Governance & Planning
MSc Global Sustainable Cities
Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities.
Global Cities: Society & Sustainability.
Smart Cities.
Lecturer & Research Fellow
University of Strathclyde
January 2015 - Present
He also holds a Lecturer position in Global Cities and Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities on the MSc in Global Sustainable Cities at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK).
Lecturer
Aston University
September 2014 - Present
Dr Igor Calzada delivered undergraduate and postgraduate lectureship in the term 2014-2015 by teaching: Ethnography, Urban Studies and Political Innovation.
Lecturer
Aston University
September 2014 - Present
Public Sociology.
Social Theory: Applied & Critical Social Innovation.
Becoming Social Scientists.
Urban Ethnographies: ‘The Wire’ TV Series Seminars.
Digital Ethnographies: Social Media Seminars.
Research Methods: Fieldwork Research.
PostDoc Position
Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science
February 2012 - Present
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, was for three years, postdoctoral research fellow at the future of cities programme developing www.cityregions.org project.
Lecturer, Research Fellow & Senior Policy Adviser
University of Oxford
January 2012 - Present
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, is a Senior Researcher at COMPAS on the Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio and Programme for the Future of Citiesworking primarily on the European regional comparative dimension.
Director of Research & Innovation
Basque Regional Government
May 2008 - Present
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, was the Director of Research & Innovation at the developing the strategic plan 2008-2012.
Associate Researcher
University of Nevada, Reno
February 2008 - Present
Igor Calzada carried out doctoral research fieldworkd on cities and social innovation in Portland (Oregon), San Francisco (California) and Seattle (Washington).
Lecturer
Mondragon Unibertsitatea
February 2002 - Present
Social Innovation
MBA Executive
Territorial Development
Strategic Management
Networks & Territories
Innovation Management
Social Entrepreneurship
Lecturer and Research Director
Mondragon Unibertsitatea
January 2002 - Present
Dr Igor Calzada, worked for more than a decade in the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation's Innovation Research Centre that was joint to the University. He worked in Social Innovation and Territorial issues.
Education
Mondragon Unibertsitatea
2007 - 2011
Business Administration
University of Deusto
2003 - 2006
Humaniities and Knowledge Society
University of Deusto
1998 - 2000
Business Administration
University of Deusto
1993 - 1997
Sociology & Political Science
Prizes and Awards
Award
Aug 2017
Fellow at the RSA (Regional Studies Association): FeRSA
Award
Nov 2015
RSA Regional Studies Association Research Network in Smart City-Regional Governance
Award
May 2008
Research Doctoral Award by the Spanish Princess
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