Scholar
Rachel Charlotte Smith
Google Scholar ID: -v5MRp0AAAAJ
Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,127
H-index
31
i10-index
52
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Leads transdisciplinary research for digital, social, and green societal transformation
- Involved in multiple international research projects, including:
- — P-AIA: Participatory AI for Alternative Sustainable Futures (DFF GREEN, 2025–2028)
- — DCODE: Fundamentals of Design Competence for our Digital Future, Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN (2021–2025)
- — CEED: Computational Empowerment for Emerging Technologies in Education, VILLUM/VELUX Foundations (2020–2025) at CCTD
- — POEM: Participatory Memory Practices for Social Inclusion, Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN (2018–2022)
- — AHA: Design Ethnographic Living Labs for Future Urban Mobility, VINNOVA Sweden (2019–2022)
Background
- Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University
- Director of the Centre for Digital and Green Transformation in Cities and Communities (DIGTCOM)
- Research focuses on sustainable futures at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and everyday life
- Engages in long-term transdisciplinary projects to transform everyday practices and co-design inclusive technologies and futures
- Works across contexts including sustainable transitions and responsible AI in communities, automated urban mobility, future memory-making and decolonisation, emerging technologies education, and computational empowerment for future generations
