Turing University Network

Description

The Turing University Network provides all UK universities with an interest in data science and AI the opportunity to engage and collaborate both with the Institute and its broader networks.

The network is a key component of the Institute Strategy aimed at changing the world for the better with data science and AI. The network supports the Institute in achieving its three ambitious goals: advance world-class research and apply it to national and global challenges, build skills for the future, and drive an informed public conversation. It enables the Institute’s role as a national convenor in the data science and AI landscape and creates opportunity for meaningful collaboration where interests align across research and innovation, skills and engagement.

The network is open, with minimal barriers to both entry and bureaucracy, and provides enablers such as mechanisms to connect across the ecosystem, interesting problems and routes to impact. Through Turing-coordinated activity, the network provides a structure for UK universities to facilitate better connections and collaboration with one another and showcase their data science/AI activity. It also provides universities with an opportunity to engage with various Turing departments and teams.

36 universities from the previous Turing university partners and Turing Network Development Award recipients have joined the pilot network and a call inviting applications from all UK universities is now live.

Members of the Turing University Network nominate a Turing liaison as the primary contact person at the university.

Launched as a pilot in April 2023 and opened to new members through a call that closed in July 2023, with memberships starting that October, the network now has a membership of 65 universities from across the UK. The call was open to all UK universities with an interest in data science and AI, took applications on behalf of institutions rather than individuals, and framed membership as joining a national data science and AI network that does not exist elsewhere in the UK. The network's pages carry a list of events hosted by member universities and Turing interest groups, showcasing the breadth of activity across the UK artificial intelligence and data science landscape. Listed events range from a machine learning summer school and a workshop on computational intelligence to a seasonal school on responsible AI, a robotics and AI mini-school, and events addressing AI in neuroscience, biodiversity and the built environment.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Partner Universities

Cardiff University

City, University of London

Durham University

Goldsmiths, University of London

Imperial College London

Keele University

King's College London (KCL)

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Newcastle University

Northumbria University

Nottingham Trent University

Queen Mary, University of London

Queen's University Belfast

Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Veterinary College

Teesside University

University College London (UCL)

University of Birmingham

University of Bristol

University of Cambridge

University of Edinburgh

University of Exeter

University of Glasgow

University of Leeds

University of Liverpool

University of Manchester

University of Nottingham

University of Oxford

University of Plymouth

University of Reading

University of Sheffield

University of Southampton

University of Strathclyde

University of Surrey

University of Warwick, Coventry